Isaiah 15:7
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.
6 The waters of Nimrim are dried up, and the grass is withered; the vegetation is gone, and the greenery is no more.
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.
9 The waters of Dimon are full of blood, but I will bring more upon Dimon— a lion upon the fugitives of Moab and upon the remnant of the land.
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.
Compare
- BSB
- So they carry their wealth and belongings over the Brook of the Willows.
- KJV
- Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.
- WEB
- Therefore they will carry away the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have stored up, over the brook of the willows.
- ASV
- Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away over the brook of the willows.
- DARBY
- Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, do they carry away to the torrent of the willows.
- BLB
- Upon thus, the abundance he made and their store, they carry them over the Brook of the Willows.
- ÅB
- Derfor bærer de det som de har samlet sammen, sitt oppsparte gods, over Vidjebekken[^2].
- OTB
- Slik bærer de bort rikdommen de har samlet og lagret, Over poppelbekken.
- B1930
- Derfor bærer de det som de har samlet sammen, sitt opsparte gods, over Vidjebekken. / < Moabs sydgrense.>
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Jeremiah 48:36
Therefore My heart laments like a flute for Moab; it laments like a flute for the men of Kir-heres, because the wealth they acquired has perished.
Read in contextPsalms 137:1–2
By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.
Read in contextIsaiah 10:6
I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.
Read in contextNahum 2:12–13
The lion mauled enough for its cubs and strangled prey for the lioness. It filled its dens with the kill, and its lairs with mauled prey.
Read in contextIsaiah 30:6
This is the burden against the beasts of the Negev: Through a land of hardship and distress, of lioness and lion, of viper and flying serpent, they carry their wealth on the backs of donkeys and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people of no profit to them.
Read in contextIsaiah 5:29
Their roaring is like that of a lion; they roar like young lions. They growl and seize their prey; they carry it away from deliverance.
Read in contextIsaiah 10:14
My hand reached as into a nest to seize the wealth of the nations. Like one gathering abandoned eggs, I gathered all the earth. No wing fluttered, no beak opened or chirped.’”
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