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The grassy banks are scorched. The tender plants are gone; nothing green remains.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/isaiah/15.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />the waters of Nimrim are a desolation; the grass is withered, the vegetation fails, the greenery is no more.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/isaiah/15.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />The waters of Nimrim are dried up, and the grass is withered; the vegetation is gone, and the greenery is no more.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/isaiah/15.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/isaiah/15.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />For the waters of Nimrim will be desolate, For the green grass has withered away; The grass fails, there is nothing green.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/isaiah/15.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />For the waters of Nimrim are desolate. Indeed, the grass is withered, the new growth has died, There is no greenery.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/isaiah/15.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />For the waters of Nimrim are desolate. Surely the grass is withered, the tender grass died out, There is no green thing.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/isaiah/15.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />For the waters of Nimrim are desolate. Surely the grass is withered, the tender grass died out, There is no green thing.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/isaiah/15.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />For the waters of Nimrim are desolate. Surely the grass is dried up, the tender grass has completely ceased, There is no green thing.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/isaiah/15.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />For the waters of Nimrim are desolate. Indeed the grass is withered, the new growth dies; There is no green thing.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/isaiah/15.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />The Waters of Nimrim are desolate; the grass is withered, the foliage is gone, and the vegetation has vanished.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/isaiah/15.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />The waters of Nimrim are desolate; the grass is withered, the foliage is gone, and the vegetation has vanished. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/isaiah/15.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate; for the grass is withered away, the tender grass faileth, there is no green thing.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/isaiah/15.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />The streams of Nimrim and the grasslands have dried up. Every plant is parched. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/isaiah/15.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the grass is withered away, the tender grass faileth, there is no green thing.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/isaiah/15.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />The Nimrim Brook has run dry! The grass dries up, the vegetation withers, and nothing green is left.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/isaiah/15.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Nimrim Brook is dry, the grass beside it has withered, and nothing green is left. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/isaiah/15.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />The Nimrim waters are desolate; the grass is withered, its vegetation gone; there is no foliage left.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/isaiah/15.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />The waters of Nimrim are dried up, and the grass is withered; the vegetation is gone, and the greenery is no more.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/isaiah/15.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />For the waters of Nimrim are gone; the grass is dried up, the vegetation has disappeared, and there are no plants. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/isaiah/15.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />For the waters of Nimrim will be desolate; for the grass has withered away, the tender grass fails, there is no green thing.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/isaiah/15.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the herb is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/isaiah/15.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />For the waters of Nimrim will be desolate; for the grass has withered away, the tender grass fails, there is no green thing. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/isaiah/15.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />For the waters of Nimrim are desolations, "" For the hay has been withered, "" The tender grass has been finished, "" There has not been a green thing.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/isaiah/15.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> 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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/isaiah/15.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolation; for the grass dried up, the herbage failed; there was no green.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/isaiah/15.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />For the waters of Nemrim shall be desolate, for the grass is withered away, the spring is faded, all the greenness is perished. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/isaiah/15.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />For the waters of Nimrim will be desolate, because the plants have withered, and the seedling has failed, and all the greenery has passed away.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/isaiah/15.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />The waters of Nimrim have become a waste, The grass is withered, new growth is gone, nothing is green. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/isaiah/15.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />the waters of Nimrim are a desolation; the grass is withered, the new growth fails, the verdure is no more.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/isaiah/15.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/isaiah/15.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />Because the waters of Nimrim shall be destitute, because the grass has dried up and the new grass has faded, and there was no green plant<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/isaiah/15.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />For the Waters of Nimrim shall be desolate; For the grass is withered away, the herbage faileth, There is no green thing.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/isaiah/15.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />The water of Nemerim shall be desolate, and the grass thereof shall fail: for there shall be no green grass.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/15-6.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xv9bHT-nr9s?start=3354" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/isaiah/15.htm">An Oracle Concerning Moab</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">5</span>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. <span class="reftext">6</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/3588.htm" title="3588: kî- (Conj) -- That, for, when. "></a> <a href="/hebrew/4325.htm" title="4325: mê (N-mpc) -- Waters, water. Dual of a primitive noun; water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen.">The waters</a> <a href="/hebrew/5249.htm" title="5249: nim·rîm (N-proper-fs) -- A place in Moab. Plural of a masculine corresponding to Nimrah; clear waters; Nimrim, a place East of the Jordan.">of Nimrim</a> <a href="/hebrew/1961.htm" title="1961: yih·yū (V-Qal-Imperf-3mp) -- To fall out, come to pass, become, be. A primitive root; to exist, i.e. Be or become, come to pass.">are</a> <a href="/hebrew/3588.htm" title="3588: kî- (Conj) -- That, for, when. "></a> <a href="/hebrew/4923.htm" title="4923: mə·šam·mō·wṯ (N-fp) -- Devastation, waste, horror. From shamem; a waste or amazement.">dried up,</a> <a href="/hebrew/2682.htm" title="2682: ḥā·ṣîr (N-ms) -- Green grass, herbage. Perhaps originally the same as chatsiyr, from the greenness of a courtyard; grass; also a leek.">and the grass</a> <a href="/hebrew/3001.htm" title="3001: yā·ḇêš (V-Qal-Perf-3ms) -- To be dry, dried up, or withered. A primitive root; to be ashamed, confused or disappointed; also to dry up or wither.">is withered;</a> <a href="/hebrew/1877.htm" title="1877: ḏe·še (N-ms) -- Grass. From dasha; a sprout; by analogy, grass.">the vegetation</a> <a href="/hebrew/3615.htm" title="3615: kā·lāh (V-Qal-Perf-3ms) -- To be complete, at an end, finished, accomplished, or spent. A primitive root; to end, whether intransitive or transitived.">is gone,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3418.htm" title="3418: ye·req (N-ms) -- From yaraq; properly, pallor, i.e. Hence, the yellowish green of young and sickly vegetation; concretely, verdure, i.e. Grass or vegetation.">and the greenery</a> <a href="/hebrew/1961.htm" title="1961: hā·yāh (V-Qal-Perf-3ms) -- To fall out, come to pass, become, be. A primitive root; to exist, i.e. Be or become, come to pass.">is</a> <a href="/hebrew/3808.htm" title="3808: lō (Adv-NegPrt) -- Not. Or lowi; or loh; a primitive particle; not; by implication, no; often used with other particles.">no more.</a> </span><span class="reftext">7</span>So they carry their wealth and belongings over the Brook of the Willows.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/48-34.htm">Jeremiah 48:34</a></span><br />There is a cry from Heshbon to Elealeh; they raise their voices to Jahaz, from Zoar to Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah; for even the waters of Nimrim have dried up.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/48-31.htm">Jeremiah 48:31-33</a></span><br />Therefore I will wail for Moab; I will cry out for all of Moab; I will moan for the men of Kir-heres. / I will weep for you, O vine of Sibmah, more than I weep for Jazer. Your tendrils have extended to the sea; they reach even to Jazer. The destroyer has descended on your summer fruit and grape harvest. / Joy and gladness are removed from the orchard and from the fields of Moab. I have stopped the flow of wine from the presses; no one treads them with shouts of joy; their shouts are not for joy.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/zephaniah/2-9.htm">Zephaniah 2:9</a></span><br />Therefore, as surely as I live,” declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah—a place of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual wasteland. The remnant of My people will plunder them; the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/numbers/21-28.htm">Numbers 21:28-30</a></span><br />For a fire went out from Heshbon, a blaze from the city of Sihon. It consumed Ar of Moab, the rulers of Arnon’s heights. / Woe to you, O Moab! You are destroyed, O people of Chemosh! He gave up his sons as refugees, and his daughters into captivity to Sihon king of the Amorites. / But we have overthrown them; Heshbon is destroyed as far as Dibon. We demolished them as far as Nophah, which reaches to Medeba.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_kings/3-25.htm">2 Kings 3:25</a></span><br />They destroyed the cities, and each man threw stones on every good field until it was covered. They stopped up every spring and cut down every good tree. Only Kir-haraseth was left with stones in place, but men with slings surrounded it and attacked it as well.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/amos/1-13.htm">Amos 1:13-15</a></span><br />This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of the Ammonites, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead in order to enlarge their territory. / So I will kindle a fire in the walls of Rabbah to consume its citadels amid war cries on the day of battle and a violent wind on the day of tempest. / Their king will go into exile—he and his princes together,” says the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/25-9.htm">Ezekiel 25:9-11</a></span><br />therefore I will indeed expose the flank of Moab beginning with its frontier cities—Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim—the glory of the land. / I will give it along with the Ammonites as a possession to the people of the East, so that the Ammonites will no longer be remembered among the nations. / So I will execute judgments on Moab, and they will know that I am the LORD.’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/16-8.htm">Isaiah 16:8-9</a></span><br />For the fields of Heshbon have withered, along with the grapevines of Sibmah. The rulers of the nations have trampled its choicest vines, which had reached as far as Jazer and spread toward the desert. Their shoots had spread out and passed over the sea. / So I weep with Jazer for the vines of Sibmah; I drench Heshbon and Elealeh with my tears. Triumphant shouts have fallen silent over your summer fruit and your harvest.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/48-36.htm">Jeremiah 48:36</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/24-4.htm">Isaiah 24:4-7</a></span><br />The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and fades; the exalted of the earth waste away. / The earth is defiled by its people; they have transgressed the laws; they have overstepped the decrees and broken the everlasting covenant. / Therefore a curse has consumed the earth, and its inhabitants must bear the guilt; the earth’s dwellers have been burned, and only a few survive. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/joel/1-10.htm">Joel 1:10-12</a></span><br />The field is ruined; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the oil fails. / Be dismayed, O farmers, wail, O vinedressers, over the wheat and barley, because the harvest of the field has perished. / The grapevine is dried up, and the fig tree is withered; the pomegranate, palm, and apple—all the trees of the orchard—are withered. Surely the joy of mankind has dried up.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/32-12.htm">Isaiah 32:12-13</a></span><br />Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vines, / and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers—even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/48-18.htm">Jeremiah 48:18</a></span><br />Come down from your glory; sit on parched ground, O daughter dwelling in Dibon, for the destroyer of Moab has come against you; he has destroyed your fortresses.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/33-9.htm">Isaiah 33:9</a></span><br />The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is ashamed and decayed. Sharon is like a desert; Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/34-1.htm">Isaiah 34:1-4</a></span><br />Come near, O nations, to listen; pay attention, O peoples. Let the earth hear, and all that fills it, the world and all that springs from it. / The LORD is angry with all the nations and furious with all their armies. He will devote them to destruction; He will give them over to slaughter. / Their slain will be left unburied, and the stench of their corpses will rise; the mountains will flow with their blood. ...</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass fails, there is no green thing.</p><p class="hdg">Nimrim</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/numbers/32-3.htm">Numbers 32:3,36</a></b></br> Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon, … </p><p class="hdg">Bethnimrah</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/joshua/13-27.htm">Joshua 13:27</a></b></br> And in the valley, Betharam, and Bethnimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, Jordan and <i>his</i> border, <i>even</i> unto the edge of the sea of Chinnereth on the other side Jordan eastward.</p><p class="hdg">desolate.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/16-9.htm">Isaiah 16:9,10</a></b></br> Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/joel/1-10.htm">Joel 1:10-12</a></b></br> The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/habakkuk/3-17.htm">Habakkuk 3:17,18</a></b></br> Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither <i>shall</i> fruit <i>be</i> in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and <i>there shall be</i> no herd in the stalls: … </p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/isaiah/10-17.htm">Burned</a> <a href="/isaiah/14-19.htm">Dead</a> <a href="/isaiah/13-22.htm">Desolate</a> <a href="/isaiah/13-9.htm">Desolation</a> <a href="/isaiah/14-28.htm">Died</a> <a href="/isaiah/5-13.htm">Dried</a> <a href="/isaiah/11-15.htm">Dry</a> <a href="/isaiah/14-30.htm">End</a> <a href="/songs/5-6.htm">Failed</a> <a href="/songs/6-6.htm">Faileth</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/10-3.htm">Fails</a> <a href="/psalms/102-27.htm">Finished</a> <a href="/isaiah/11-6.htm">Grass</a> <a href="/songs/6-11.htm">Green</a> <a href="/isaiah/4-2.htm">Growth</a> <a href="/proverbs/27-25.htm">Hay</a> <a href="/proverbs/19-12.htm">Herb</a> <a href="/proverbs/27-25.htm">Herbage</a> <a href="/isaiah/1-14.htm">New</a> <a href="/jeremiah/48-34.htm">Nimrim</a> <a href="/isaiah/15-5.htm">Surely</a> <a href="/songs/7-12.htm">Tender</a> <a href="/psalms/105-35.htm">Vegetation</a> <a href="/songs/6-11.htm">Verdure</a> <a href="/isaiah/14-23.htm">Waters</a> <a href="/psalms/102-11.htm">Withered</a> <a href="/isaiah/13-18.htm">Young</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/isaiah/24-6.htm">Burned</a> <a href="/isaiah/19-3.htm">Dead</a> <a href="/isaiah/24-1.htm">Desolate</a> <a href="/isaiah/17-9.htm">Desolation</a> <a href="/jeremiah/28-17.htm">Died</a> <a href="/isaiah/19-5.htm">Dried</a> <a href="/isaiah/19-5.htm">Dry</a> <a href="/isaiah/16-4.htm">End</a> <a href="/isaiah/19-5.htm">Failed</a> <a href="/isaiah/24-4.htm">Faileth</a> <a href="/isaiah/41-17.htm">Fails</a> <a href="/isaiah/24-13.htm">Finished</a> <a href="/isaiah/33-11.htm">Grass</a> <a href="/isaiah/37-27.htm">Green</a> <a href="/isaiah/17-5.htm">Growth</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/3-12.htm">Hay</a> <a href="/isaiah/37-27.htm">Herb</a> <a href="/isaiah/42-15.htm">Herbage</a> <a href="/isaiah/24-7.htm">New</a> <a href="/jeremiah/48-34.htm">Nimrim</a> <a href="/isaiah/15-9.htm">Surely</a> <a href="/isaiah/37-27.htm">Tender</a> <a href="/isaiah/37-27.htm">Vegetation</a> <a href="/songs/6-11.htm">Verdure</a> <a href="/isaiah/15-9.htm">Waters</a> <a href="/isaiah/27-11.htm">Withered</a> <a href="/isaiah/16-2.htm">Young</a><div class="vheading2">Isaiah 15</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/15-1.htm">The lamentable state of Moab</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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The drying up of these waters symbolizes desolation and judgment upon Moab. In the ancient Near East, water sources were vital for survival, agriculture, and prosperity. The drying up of water would indicate a severe crisis, reflecting God's judgment. This imagery is consistent with other biblical passages where water scarcity signifies divine retribution (e.g., <a href="/jeremiah/14-3.htm">Jeremiah 14:3-4</a>).<p><b>and the grass is withered</b><br>The withering of grass further emphasizes the theme of desolation. Grass, often used in the Bible to symbolize life and prosperity, withering away indicates a loss of vitality and sustenance. This imagery is reminiscent of <a href="/isaiah/40-7.htm">Isaiah 40:7-8</a>, where the transient nature of human life is compared to grass that withers. The withering grass in Moab signifies the fading of its glory and strength under divine judgment.<p><b>the vegetation is gone</b><br>The absence of vegetation underscores the complete devastation of the land. Vegetation is essential for food, livestock, and economic stability. The loss of vegetation would lead to famine and economic collapse, highlighting the severity of the judgment. This aligns with the broader biblical theme of land suffering due to the people's sin, as seen in passages like <a href="/joel/1-10.htm">Joel 1:10-12</a>, where the land mourns due to the people's disobedience.<p><b>and the greenery is no more</b><br>The disappearance of greenery completes the picture of barrenness and ruin. Greenery often symbolizes life, growth, and prosperity. Its absence indicates a total lack of life and hope. This imagery can be connected to the broader biblical narrative of creation groaning under the weight of sin (<a href="/romans/8-22.htm">Romans 8:22</a>) and the ultimate hope of restoration through Christ, who brings life and renewal (<a href="/john/10-10.htm">John 10:10</a>). The judgment on Moab serves as a reminder of the consequences of turning away from God and the hope of redemption through repentance and faith.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/n/nimrim.htm">Nimrim</a></b><br>A location in Moab, likely known for its water sources. The drying up of its waters signifies a severe judgment and desolation.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/m/moab.htm">Moab</a></b><br>A nation east of Israel, often in conflict with Israel. <a href="/bsb/isaiah/15.htm">Isaiah 15</a> is a prophecy concerning the judgment and destruction of Moab.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/i/isaiah.htm">Isaiah</a></b><br>The prophet who delivered this message. His prophecies often included both immediate and future fulfillments.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/j/judgment.htm">Judgment</a></b><br>The overarching theme of this passage, where God pronounces His judgment on Moab for their pride and idolatry.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/d/desolation.htm">Desolation</a></b><br>The result of God's judgment, depicted through the imagery of dried waters and withered vegetation.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/t/the_consequences_of_sin.htm">The Consequences of Sin</a></b><br>Just as Moab faced desolation due to their sin, we must recognize the serious consequences of turning away from God.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/g/god's_sovereignty_in_judgment.htm">God's Sovereignty in Judgment</a></b><br>God's control over nature, as seen in the drying of Nimrim's waters, reminds us of His ultimate authority over all creation.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_spiritual_vitality.htm">The Importance of Spiritual Vitality</a></b><br>The withered vegetation symbolizes spiritual barrenness. We are called to remain spiritually vibrant through a relationship with Christ.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/h/hope_in_restoration.htm">Hope in Restoration</a></b><br>While judgment is pronounced, God's ultimate plan includes restoration and redemption for those who turn back to Him.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_call_to_repentance.htm">The Call to Repentance</a></b><br>This passage serves as a warning and a call to repentance, urging us to examine our lives and align with God's will.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_isaiah_15.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Isaiah 15</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_does_the_bible_say_about_the_trinity.htm">What is the Bible's teaching on the Trinity?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_does_'cast_bread'_yield_results.htm">In Ecclesiastes 11:1, how is 'casting bread upon the waters' supposed to yield a result when bread would dissolve or sink?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_does_isaiah_15_5-9_fit_disaster_timelines.htm">How could the swift destruction described in Isaiah 15:5-9 align with known military or natural disaster timelines?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_did_david_sneak_into_saul's_camp.htm">How could David and Abishai enter Saul's camp and take his spear and water jug unnoticed by 3,000 soldiers? (1 Samuel 26:7-12)</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/isaiah/15.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(6) <span class= "bld">The waters of Nimrim . . .</span>--These also appear in <a href="/jeremiah/48-34.htm" title="From the cry of Heshbon even to Elealeh, and even to Jahaz, have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even to Horonaim, as an heifer of three years old: for the waters also of Nimrim shall be desolate.">Jeremiah 48:34</a>. They were probably a reservoir from which the fields were irrigated so as to be conspicuous for their verdure Eusebius (<span class= "ital">Onomast.</span>) places it north of Zoar. The name appears to survive in the <span class= "ital">Wady en Nemeirah </span>on the south-eastern shore of the Dead Sea (De Saulcy, <span class= "ital">Voyage, </span>i. 284; Tristram, <span class= "ital">Land of Israel, </span>340). Beth-Nimrah appears as the name of a town in <a href="/numbers/32-36.htm" title="And Bethnimrah, and Bethharan, fenced cities: and folds for sheep.">Numbers 32:36</a>). The desolation predicted was probably thought of as caused by the stoppage of the wells, one of the common acts of an invading army (<a href="/2_kings/3-25.htm" title="And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of land cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the wells of water, and felled all the good trees: only in Kirharaseth left they the stones thereof; however, the slingers went about it, and smote it.">2Kings 3:25</a>).<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/isaiah/15.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 6.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">The waters of Nimrim shall be desolate</span>. The Wady Numeira is a watercourse running into the Dead Sea from the east, hallway between the promontory called the "Lisan" and the sea's southern extremity. It is fed by "six or seven springs" ('Quarterly Statement' of Palest. Expl. Fatal, October, 1880, p. 254) - "plenteous brooks gushing from the lofty hills" (Tristram), and boasts along its banks a number of "well-watered gardens." There is no reason to doubt the identity of this stream with "the waters of Nimrim." Their "desolation" was probably caused by the enemy stopping up the sources (<a href="/2_kings/3-19.htm">2 Kings 3:19, 25</a>; <a href="/2_chronicles/32-3.htm">2 Chronicles 32:3, 4</a>). <span class="cmt_word">The hay is withered away.</span> There is luxuriant vegetation in the wadys and ghors at the southern end of the Dead Sea, especially in the Ghor-es-Safiyeh, the Wady Numeira, and the Wady el-Mantara ('Quarterly Statement' of Palest. Expl. Fund, October, 1880, pp. 252, 254). <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/isaiah/15-6.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">The waters</span><br /><span class="heb">מֵ֥י</span> <span class="translit">(mê)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4325.htm">Strong's 4325: </a> </span><span class="str2">Water, juice, urine, semen</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of Nimrim</span><br /><span class="heb">נִמְרִ֖ים</span> <span class="translit">(nim·rîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5249.htm">Strong's 5249: </a> </span><span class="str2">Nimrim -- a place in Moab</span><br /><br /><span class="word">are</span><br /><span class="heb">יִֽהְי֑וּ</span> <span class="translit">(yih·yū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1961.htm">Strong's 1961: </a> </span><span class="str2">To fall out, come to pass, become, be</span><br /><br /><span class="word">dried up;</span><br /><span class="heb">מְשַׁמּ֣וֹת</span> <span class="translit">(mə·šam·mō·wṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4923.htm">Strong's 4923: </a> </span><span class="str2">Devastation, waste, horror</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the grass</span><br /><span class="heb">חָצִיר֙</span> <span class="translit">(ḥā·ṣîr)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2682.htm">Strong's 2682: </a> </span><span class="str2">Green grass, herbage</span><br /><br /><span class="word">is withered,</span><br /><span class="heb">יָבֵ֤שׁ</span> <span class="translit">(yā·ḇêš)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3001.htm">Strong's 3001: </a> </span><span class="str2">To be ashamed, confused, disappointed, to dry up, wither</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the foliage</span><br /><span class="heb">דֶ֔שֶׁא</span> <span class="translit">(ḏe·še)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1877.htm">Strong's 1877: </a> </span><span class="str2">A sprout, grass</span><br /><br /><span class="word">is gone,</span><br /><span class="heb">כָּ֣לָה</span> <span class="translit">(kā·lāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3615.htm">Strong's 3615: </a> </span><span class="str2">To be complete, at an end, finished, accomplished, or spent</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and the vegetation</span><br /><span class="heb">יֶ֖רֶק</span> <span class="translit">(ye·req)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3418.htm">Strong's 3418: </a> </span><span class="str2">Pallor, the yellowish green of young and sickly vegetation, verdure, grass, vegetation</span><br /><br /><span class="word">has vanished.</span><br /><span class="heb">לֹ֥א</span> <span class="translit">(lō)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adverb - Negative particle<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3808.htm">Strong's 3808: </a> </span><span class="str2">Not, no</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/isaiah/15-6.htm">Isaiah 15:6 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/isaiah/15-6.htm">Isaiah 15:6 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/isaiah/15-6.htm">Isaiah 15:6 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/isaiah/15-6.htm">Isaiah 15:6 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/isaiah/15-6.htm">Isaiah 15:6 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/isaiah/15-6.htm">Isaiah 15:6 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/isaiah/15-6.htm">Isaiah 15:6 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/isaiah/15-6.htm">Isaiah 15:6 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/isaiah/15-6.htm">Isaiah 15:6 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/isaiah/15-6.htm">Isaiah 15:6 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/isaiah/15-6.htm">OT Prophets: Isaiah 15:6 For the waters of Nimrim will be (Isa Isi Is)</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/isaiah/15-5.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 15:5"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 15:5" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/isaiah/15-7.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 15:7"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 15:7" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>