Isaiah 15:6

6 The waters of Nimrim are dried up and the grass is withered; the vegetation is gone and nothing green is left.

Isaiah 15:6 in Other Translations

6 For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.

6 the waters of Nimrim are a desolation; the grass is withered, the vegetation fails, the greenery is no more.

6 Even the waters of Nimrim are dried up! The grassy banks are scorched. The tender plants are gone; nothing green remains.

6 The springs of Nimrim are dried up - grass brown, buds stunted, nothing grows.

6 The waters of Nimrim are desolate; the grass is withered, the foliage is gone, and the vegetation has vanished.

Isaiah 15:6 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 15:6

For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate
Or dried up, through a great drought that should come upon the land at this time; or being defiled with the blood of the slain, as Jarchi: it may denote the well watered pastures about Nimrim, that should become the forage of the enemy, and be trodden under foot by its army, or be forsaken by the proprietors of them. Josephus ^F13 speaks of fountains of hot water springing up in the country of Peraea, where Nimrim was, of a different taste, some bitter, and others sweet; which, Dr. Lightfoot ^F14 suggests, might be these waters of Nimrim; and, according to the Jerusalem Talmud ^F15, Bethnimrah was in that part of the country which was called the valley, and so was very fruitful with springs of water. The word is in the plural number, and may design more places of the same name; and we read of Nimrah and Bethnimrah, ( Numbers 32:3 Numbers 32:36 ) . Jerom ^F16 calls it Nemra, and says it was a large village in his time; it seems to have its name from panthers or leopards, of which there might be many in these parts: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green
thing;
by which it seems that the desolation spoken of was not merely through the forage and trampling of the enemy's army, but by a drought.

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FOOTNOTES:

F13 De Bello Jud. l. 7. c. 6. sect. 3. Ed. Hudson.
F14 Ut supra (See his Works, vol. 2.) p. 50.
F15 T. Hieros. Sheviith, fol. 38. 4.
F16 De locis Hebraicis, fol. 93. I.

Isaiah 15:6 In-Context

4 Heshbon and Elealeh cry out, their voices are heard all the way to Jahaz. Therefore the armed men of Moab cry out, and their hearts are faint.

5 My 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.

6 The waters of Nimrim are dried up and the grass is withered; the vegetation is gone and nothing green is left.

7 So the wealth they have acquired and stored up they carry away over the Ravine of the Poplars.

8 Their outcry echoes along the border of Moab; their wailing reaches as far as Eglaim, their lamentation as far as Beer Elim.

Cross References

• 1. Isaiah 19:5-7; Jeremiah 48:34
• 2. Psalms 37:2; Isaiah 16:8; Isaiah 24:4,7,11; Isaiah 33:9; Isaiah 34:4; Isaiah 37:27; Isaiah 40:7; Isaiah 51:6,12; Hosea 4:3; Joel 1:12
• 3. S Isaiah 14:17
• 4. Jeremiah 14:5