Isaiah 15:6
What does Isaiah 15:6 mean?
A plain-English look at Isaiah 15:6 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate; for the grass is withered away, the tender grass faileth, there is no green thing.
KJV
King James Version · 1611For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate; for the grass is withered away, the tender grass faileth, there is no green thing.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949The waters of Nimrim will become dry: for the grass is burned up, the young grass is coming to an end, every green thing is dead.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862For, the waters of Nimrim are desolations, For, withered hath been the hay, Finished hath been the tender grass, A green thing there hath not been.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752For the waters of Nemrim shall be desolate, for the grass is withered away, the spring is faded, all the greenness is perished.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate; for the herbage is withered away, the grass hath failed, there is no green thing.
Context
v.5My heart crieth out for Moab; her nobles flee unto Zoar, to Eglath-shelishi-yah: for by the ascent of Luhith with weeping they go up; for in the way of Horonaim they raise up a cry of destruction.
v.6This passage
v.7Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away over the brook of the willows.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Jeremiah 48:34
From the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh, even unto Jahaz have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even unto Horonaim, to Eglath-shelishiyah: for the waters of Nimrim also shall become desolate.
- Isaiah 16:9
Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah; I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for upon thy summer fruits and upon thy harvest the battle shout is fallen.
- Isaiah 19:5
And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and become dry.
- Numbers 32:3
Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Sebam, and Nebo, and Beon,
- Joshua 13:27
and in the valley, Beth-haram, and Beth-nimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, the Jordan and the border thereof, unto the uttermost part of the sea of Chinnereth beyond the Jordan eastward.
- Habakkuk 3:17
For though the fig-tree shall not flourish, Neither shall fruit be in the vines; The labor of the olive shall fail, And the fields shall yield no food; The flock shall be cut off from the fold, And there shall be no herd in the stalls:
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