Jesaja 15:6

6 Denn die Wasser von Nimrim sollen zu Wüsten werden. Denn verdorrt ist das Gras, verschmachtet das Kraut; das Grün ist nicht mehr.

Jesaja 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.

Jesaja 15:6 In-Context

4 Und Hesbon schreit und Elale; bis Jahaz wird ihre Stimme gehört. Darum schreien die Gerüsteten Moabs laut auf, seine Seele bebt in ihm.

5 Mein Herz schreit über Moab, seine Flüchtlinge fliehen bis Zoar, bis Eglath-Schelischija. Denn die Anhöhe von Luchith steigt man mit Weinen hinauf; denn auf dem Wege nach Horonaim erhebt man Jammergeschrei.

6 Denn die Wasser von Nimrim sollen zu Wüsten werden. Denn verdorrt ist das Gras, verschmachtet das Kraut; das Grün ist nicht mehr.

7 Darum tragen sie was sie erübrigt haben und ihr Aufbewahrtes über den Weidenbach.

8 Denn das Wehgeschrei hat die Runde gemacht in den Grenzen von Moab: bis Eglaim dringt sein Jammern, und bis Beer-Elim sein Jammern.