Isaiah 15:7

Isaiah 15:7 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Therefore the abundance they have gained and what they have laid up they carry away over the Brook of the Willows.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Therefore the abundance they have gained, And what they have laid up, They will carry away to the Brook of the Willows.
• New Living Translation (NLT)The people grab their possessions and carry them across the Ravine of Willows.

Context of Isaiah 15:7

5My heart cries out over Moab; her fugitives flee as far as Zoar, as far as Eglath Shelishiyah. They go up the hill to Luhith, weeping as they go; on the road to Horonaim they lament their destruction. 6The waters of Nimrim are dried up and the grass is withered; the vegetation is gone and nothing green is left. So the wealth they have acquired and stored up they carry away over the Ravine of the Poplars. 8Their outcry echoes along the border of Moab; their wailing reaches as far as Eglaim, their lamentation as far as Beer Elim. 9The waters of Dimon are full of blood, but I will bring still more upon Dimon— a lion upon the fugitives of Moab and upon those who remain in the land.

Isaiah 15:7 word by word

עַל־כֵּ֖ן יִתְרָ֣ה עָשָׂ֑ה וּפְקֻדָּתָ֔ם עַ֛ל נַ֥חַל הָעֲרָבִ֖ים יִשָּׂאֽוּם׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Therefore the abundanceיִתְרָהyithrâh · abundanceH3502
• they have gottenעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to make: offerH6213
• and that which they have laid upפְּקֻדָּהpeqûddâh · punishmentH6486
• shall they carry awayנָשָׂאnâώâ' nâsâh · to lift: bearH5375
• to the brookנַ֫חַלnachal nachlâh nachălâh · BrookH5158
• of the willowsעֲרָבָה‛ârâb · (Brook of) WillowsH6155

Cross-references for Isaiah 15:7

• Isaiah 5:29Their roar is like that of the lion, they roar like young lions; they growl as they seize their prey and carry it off with no one to rescue.
• Isaiah 10:6I send him against a godless nation, I dispatch him against a people who anger me, to seize loot and snatch plunder, and to trample them down like mud in the streets.
• Nahum 2:12The lion killed enough for his cubs and strangled the prey for his mate, filling his lairs with the kill and his dens with the prey.
• Psalms 137:1By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.

Commentaries on Isaiah 15:7

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7"Shall perish" - אבדו abadu or אבדה abadeh . This word seems to have been lost out of the text: it is supplied by the parallel place, Jeremiah 48:36. The Syriac expresses it by עבר aber, praeteriit, "he hath passed;" and the Chaldee by יתבזזון yithbazezun, diripientur. To the brook of the willows "To the valley of willows" - That is, to Babylon. Hieron. and Jarchi in loc., both referring to Psalm 137:2. So likewise Prideaux, Le Clerc, etc.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7Therefore, the abundance they have gotten - Their wealth they shall remove from a place that is utterly burned up with drought, where the waters and the grass fail, to another place where they may find water. To the brook of willows - Margin, The valley of the Arabians.‘ The Septuagint renders it, I will lead them to the valley of the Arabians, and they shall take it.‘ So Saadias. It might, perhaps, be called the valley of the Arabians, because it was the…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 7-8The exact locations of the Brook of the Willows, Eglaim, and Beer-elim are unknown.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 77. Therefore--because of the devastation of the land. abundance--literally, "that which is over and above" the necessaries of life. brook of ... willows--The fugitives flee from Nimrim, where the waters have failed, to places better watered. Margin has "valley of Arabians"; that is, to the valley on the boundary between them and Arabia-Petræa; now Wady-el Arabah. "Arabia" means a "desert."Read the comment

In the dictionaries

• Cry
• Willows
• Zered
• Abound; Abundance; Abundant; Abundantly
• Arnon
• Baal (1)
• Canon of the Old Testament
• Esther, the Rest of
• Evil
• Ezekiel

Commentaries on Isaiah 15

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings