Isaiah 15:6
4 Heshbon and Elealeh cry out; their voices are heard as far as Jahaz. Therefore the soldiers of Moab cry out; their souls tremble within.
5 My heart cries out over Moab; her fugitives flee as far as Zoar, as far as Eglath-shelishiyah. With weeping they ascend the slope of Luhith; they lament their destruction on the road to Horonaim.
The waters of Nimrim are dried up, and the grass is withered; the vegetation is gone, and the greenery is no more.
7 So they carry their wealth and belongings over the Brook of the Willows.
8 For their outcry echoes to the border of Moab. Their wailing reaches Eglaim; it is heard in Beer-elim.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- The waters of Nimrim are dried up, and the grass is withered; the vegetation is gone, and the greenery is no more.
- KJV
- For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.
- WEB
- For the waters of Nimrim will be desolate; for the grass has withered away, the tender grass fails, there is no green thing.
- ASV
- For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate; for the grass is withered away, the tender grass faileth, there is no green thing.
- DARBY
- For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate; for the herbage is withered away, the grass hath failed, there is no green thing.
- BLB
- For the waters of Nimrim have become desolations, for the grass has withered away; the vegetation is finished—nothing green is there.
- ÅB
- Nimrims vann blir til ørkener, gresset tørker bort, med urtene er det forbi, det finnes ikke mere et grønt strå.
- OTB
- Vannet i Nimrim er øde. Sannelig, gresset er visnet, den nye veksten har gått til grunne, Ingen grøntområder gjenstår.
- B1930
- Nimrims vann blir til ørkener, gresset tørker bort, med urtene er det forbi, det finnes ikke mere et grønt strå.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Joel 1:10–12
The field is ruined; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the oil fails.
Read in contextIsaiah 19:5–7
The waters of the Nile will dry up, and the riverbed will be parched and empty.
Read in contextNumbers 32:36
Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran as fortified cities, and they built folds for their flocks.
Read in contextHabakkuk 3:17–18
Though the fig tree does not bud and no fruit is on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though the sheep are cut off from the fold and no cattle are in the stalls,
Read in contextRevelation 8:7
Then the first angel sounded his trumpet, and hail and fire mixed with blood were hurled down upon the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, along with a third of the trees and all the green grass.
Read in contextIsaiah 16:9–10
So I weep with Jazer for the vines of Sibmah; I drench Heshbon and Elealeh with my tears. Triumphant shouts have fallen silent over your summer fruit and your harvest.
Read in contextNumbers 32:3
“Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,
Read in contextJoshua 13:27
and in the valley, Beth-haram, Beth-nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, with the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon (the territory on the east side of the Jordan up to the edge of the Sea of Chinnereth ).
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