◄ Isaiah 15:6 ►
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Good News Translation
Nimrim Brook is dry, the grass beside it has withered, and nothing green is left.

New Revised Standard Version
the waters of Nimrim are a desolation; the grass is withered, the new growth fails, the verdure is no more.

Contemporary English Version
The streams of Nimrim and the grasslands have dried up. Every plant is parched.

New American Bible
The waters of Nimrim have become a waste, The grass is withered, new growth is gone, nothing is green.

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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For the waters of Nemrim shall be desolate, for the grass is withered away, the spring is faded, all the greenness is perished.

Nimrim

Numbers 32:3,36 Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nemra, Hesebon, and Eleale, and Saban, and Nebo, and Beon, . . .

Bethnimrah

Joshua 13:27 And in the valley Betharan and Bethnemra, and Socoth, and Saphon the other part of the kingdom of Sehon king of Hesebon: the limit of this also is the Jordan, as far as the uttermost part of the sea of Cenereth beyond the Jordan on the east side,

desolate.

Isaiah 16:9,10 Therefore I will lament with the weeping of Jazer the vineyard of Sabama: I will water thee with my tears, O Hesebon, and Eleale: for the voice of the treaders hath rushed in upon thy vintage, and upon thy harvest. . . .

Joel 1:10-12 The country is destroyed, the ground hath mourned: for the corn is wasted, the wine is confounded, the oil hath languished. . . .

Habakkuk 3:17,18 For the fig tree shall not blossom: and there shall be no spring in the vines. The labour of the olive tree shall fail: and the fields shall yield no food: the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls. . . .

Revelation 8:7 And the first angel sounded the trumpet: and there followed hail and fire, mingled with blood: and it was cast on the earth. And the third part of the earth was burnt up: and the third part of the trees was burnt up: and all green grass was burnt up.

Context
An Oracle Concerning Moab
…5My heart shall cry to Moab, the bars thereof shall flee unto Segor a heifer of three years old: for by the ascent of Luith they shall go up weeping: and in the way of Oronaim they shall lift up a cry of destruction. 6For the waters of Nemrim shall be desolate, for the grass is withered away, the spring is faded, all the greenness is perished.7According to the greatness of their work, is their visitation also: they shall lead them to the torrent of the willows.…
Cross References
Isaiah 19:5
And the water of the sea shall be dried up, and the river shall be wasted and dry.

Isaiah 19:6
And the rivers shall fail: the streams of the banks shall be diminished, and be dried up. The reed and the bulrush shall wither away.

Jeremiah 14:5
Yea, the hind also brought forth in the field, and left it, because there was no grass.

Jeremiah 48:34
From the cry of Hesebon even to Eleale, and to Jasa, they have uttered their voice: from Segor to Oronaim, as a heifer of three years old: the waters also of Nemrim shall be very bad.

Joel 1:10
The country is destroyed, the ground hath mourned: for the corn is wasted, the wine is confounded, the oil hath languished.

Joel 2:3
Before the face thereof a devouring fire, and behind it a burning flame: the land is like a garden of pleasure before it, and behind it a desolate wilderness, neither is there any one that can escape it.

Isaiah 15:5
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