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Young's Literal Translation

Isaiah 15:6

For, the waters of Nimrim are desolations, For, withered hath been the hay, Finished hath been the tender grass, A green thing there hath not been.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Hay;   Nimrim;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Grass;   Moabites;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Beth-Nimrah;   Grass;   Hay;   Moabites;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Hay;   Leek;   Nimrim, Waters of;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Hay;   Nimrah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Animals;   Grass;   Nimrim;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Beth-Nimrah;   Dibon;   Grass;   Herb;   Leopard;   Moab, Moabites;   Nimrim, the Waters of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Leopard ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Nimrim, Waters of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ammon ammonites children of ammon;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Nim'rim;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Hay;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Leek;   Leopard;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Arnon;   Baal (1);   Beth-Nimrah;   Color;   Evil;   Fail;   Grass;   Herb;   Leopard;   Moab;   Nimrim;   Tender;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The Waters of Nimrim are desolate;the grass is withered, the foliage is gone,and the vegetation has vanished.
Hebrew Names Version
For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate; for the grass is withered away, the tender grass fails, there is no green thing.
King James Version
For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.
English Standard Version
the waters of Nimrim are a desolation; the grass is withered, the vegetation fails, the greenery is no more.
New American Standard Bible
For the waters of Nimrim are desolate. Indeed, the grass is withered, the new growth has died, There is no greenery.
New Century Version
But the water of Nimrim has dried up. The grass has dried up, and all the plants are dead; nothing green is left.
Amplified Bible
For the waters of Nimrim are desolate. Indeed the grass is withered, the new growth dies; There is no green thing.
World English Bible
For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate; for the grass is withered away, the tender grass fails, there is no green thing.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For the waters of Nimrim shal be dried vp: therefore the grasse is withered, the herbes consumed, and there was no greene herbe.
Legacy Standard Bible
For the waters of Nimrim are desolate.Surely the grass is dried up, the tender grass has completely ceased,There is no green thing.
Berean Standard Bible
The waters of Nimrim are dried up; the grass is withered, the foliage is gone, and the vegetation has vanished.
Contemporary English Version
The streams of Nimrim and the grasslands have dried up. Every plant is parched.
Complete Jewish Bible
The waters of Nimrim are desolate, the grass is dried up, the new growth fails, nothing green is left.
Darby Translation
For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate; for the herbage is withered away, the grass hath failed, there is no green thing.
Easy-to-Read Version
But Nimrim Brook is as dry as a desert. The grass has dried up, and the plants are all dead. Nothing is green.
George Lamsa Translation
For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate; for the vegetation is withered away, and the green grass is dried up, there is no green thing.
Good News Translation
Nimrim Brook is dry, the grass beside it has withered, and nothing green is left.
Lexham English Bible
For the waters of Nimrim are wastelands; for the grass has withered, the vegetation has vanished, there is no greenness.
Literal Translation
For Nimrim's waters are desolations; for the hay is dried up; the grass fails; there is not a green thing.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The waters of Nimrim were dried vp, the grasse was wythred, the herbes destroyed, & what necessary grene thinge there was besyde.
American Standard Version
For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate; for the grass is withered away, the tender grass faileth, there is no green thing.
Bible in Basic English
The waters of Nimrim will become dry: for the grass is burned up, the young grass is coming to an end, every green thing is dead.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For the Waters of Nimrim shall be desolate; for the grass is withered away, the herbage faileth, there is no green thing.
King James Version (1611)
For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grasse faileth, there is no greene thing.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For the waters of Nimrim shalbe dryed vp, by reason wherof the grasse is withered, the hearbes destroyed, and the greene thynges gone.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The water of Nemerim shall be desolate, and the grass thereof shall fail: for there shall be no green grass.
English Revised Version
For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the grass is withered away, the tender grass faileth, there is no green thing.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For whi the watris of Nemrym schulen be forsakun; for the eerbe dried up, buriownyng failide, al grenenesse perischide.
Update Bible Version
For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate; for the grass is withered away, the tender grass fails, there is no green thing.
Webster's Bible Translation
For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the herb is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.
New English Translation
For the waters of Nimrim are gone; the grass is dried up, the vegetation has disappeared, and there are no plants.
New King James Version
For the waters of Nimrim will be desolate, For the green grass has withered away; The grass fails, there is nothing green.
New Living Translation
Even the waters of Nimrim are dried up! The grassy banks are scorched. The tender plants are gone; nothing green remains.
New Life Bible
For the waters of Nimrim have been laid waste. The grass is dried up. The new grass died out. There is no green thing.
New Revised Standard
the waters of Nimrim are a desolation; the grass is withered, the new growth fails, the verdure is no more.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, the waters of Nimrim, shall become desolation, - For grass, hath dried up, Herbage hath failed, Green thing, hath not sprung up!
Douay-Rheims Bible
For the waters of Nemrim shall be desolate, for the grass is withered away, the spring is faded, all the greenness is perished.
Revised Standard Version
the waters of Nimrim are a desolation; the grass is withered, the new growth fails, the verdure is no more.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For the waters of Nimrim are desolate. Surely the grass is withered, the tender grass died out, There is no green thing.

Contextual Overview

6 For, the waters of Nimrim are desolations, For, withered hath been the hay, Finished hath been the tender grass, A green thing there hath not been. 7 Therefore the abundance he made, and their store, Unto the brook of the willows they carry. 8 For gone round hath the cry the border of Moab, Unto Eglaim [is] its howling, And to Beer-Elim [is] its howling. 9 For the waters of Dimon have been full of blood, For I set on Dimon additions, For the escaped of Moab a lion, And for the remnant of Adamah!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Nimrim: Numbers 32:3, Numbers 32:36, Nimrah, Beth-nimrah, Joshua 13:27, Beth-nimrah

desolate: Heb. desolations

the grass: Isaiah 16:9, Isaiah 16:10, Joel 1:10-12, Habakkuk 3:17, Habakkuk 3:18, Revelation 8:7

Reciprocal: Isaiah 16:4 - oppressors Jeremiah 25:12 - perpetual Jeremiah 48:34 - Nimrim

Cross-References

Genesis 15:3
And Abram saith, `Lo, to me Thou hast not given seed, and lo, a domestic doth heir me.'
Genesis 15:6
And he hath believed in Jehovah, and He reckoneth it to him -- righteousness.
Genesis 15:14
and the nation also whom they serve I judge, and after this they go out with great substance;
Genesis 15:20
and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim,
Psalms 106:31
And it is reckoned to him to righteousness, To all generations -- unto the age.
Romans 4:9
[Is] this happiness, then, upon the circumcision, or also upon the uncircumcision -- for we say that the faith was reckoned to Abraham -- to righteousness?
Romans 4:11
and a sign he did receive of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith in the uncircumcision, for his being father of all those believing through uncircumcision, for the righteousness also being reckoned to them,
2 Corinthians 5:19
how that God was in Christ -- a world reconciling to Himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses; and having put in us the word of the reconciliation,
Hebrews 11:8
By faith Abraham, being called, did obey, to go forth to the place that he was about to receive for an inheritance, and he went forth, not knowing whither he doth go;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 m 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 n suggests, might be these waters of Nimrim; and, according to the Jerusalem Talmud o, 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. Jerom p 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.

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

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For the waters of Nimrim - It is supposed by some that the prophet here states the cause why the Moabites would flee to the cities of the south, to wit, that the “waters” of the northern cities would fail, and the country become desolate, and that they would seek support in the south. But it is more probable that he is simply continuing the description of the desolation that would come upon Moab. Nimrah, or Beth Nimra, meaning a “house of limpid waters,” was a city of Reuben east of the Dead Sea (Numbers 32:3; compare Jeremiah 48:34). It was, doubtless, a city celebrated for its pure fountains and springs of water. Here Seetzen’s chart shows a brook flowing into the Jordan called “Nahr Nimrim, or Wady Shoaib.” ‘On the east of the Jordan over against Jericho, there is now a stream called Nimlim - doubtless the ancient Nimrim. This flows into the Jordan, and as it flows along gives fertility to that part of the country of Moab.’ (Eli Smith.) It is possible that the waters failed by a common practice in times of war when an enemy destroyed the fountains of a country by diverting their waters, or by casting into them stones, trees, etc. This destructive measure of war occurs, with reference to Moab, in 2 Kings 3:25, when the Israelites, during an incursion into Moab, felled the fruit trees, cast stones into the plowed grounds, and “closed the fountains, or wells.”

For the hay is withered away - The waters are dried up, and the land yields nothing to support life.


 
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