Isaiah 15:6-9

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.

9 The waters of Dimon^[a] are full of blood, but I will bring still more upon Dimon^[b] — a lion upon the fugitives of Moab and upon those who remain in the land.

Isaiah 15:6-9 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 15

This chapter is a prophecy of the destruction of the Moabites; two of their principal cities are mentioned as made desolate, Isa 15:1 the inhabitants in divers places are represented as weeping and mourning, and showing various signs of it, Isa 15:2,3 yea, not only the common people, but the armed soldiers also, Isa 15:4 nay, even the prophet himself, Isa 15:5 the reasons of which were the great drought, so that there were no grass, nor green thing, Isa 15:6 the carrying away of their good things, either by themselves or others, Isa 15:7 the flight and cry of the people to the very borders of the land, Isa 15:8 and the great effusion of blood, Isa 15:9.

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
• 5. Isaiah 30:6; Jeremiah 48:36
• 6. S Numbers 21:16
• 7. S 2 Kings 17:25
• 8. Ezekiel 25:8-11

Footnotes

• [a] "Dimon" , a wordplay on "Dibon" (see verse 2), sounds like the Hebrew for "blood" .
• [b] "Dimon" , a wordplay on "Dibon" (see verse 2), sounds like the Hebrew for "blood" .