◄ Isaiah 15:7 ►
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Good News Translation
The people go across the Valley of Willows, trying to escape with all their possessions.

New Revised Standard Version
Therefore the abundance they have gained and what they have laid up they carry away over the Wadi of the Willows.

Contemporary English Version
The people of Moab are leaving, crossing over Willow Creek, taking everything they own and have worked for.

New American Bible
So now whatever they have acquired or stored away they carry across the Wadi of the Poplars.

Douay-Rheims Bible
According to the greatness of their work, is their visitation also: they shall lead them to the torrent of the willows.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

According to the greatness of their work, is their visitation also: they shall lead them to the torrent of the willows.

the abundance

Isaiah 5:29 Their roaring like that of a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea they shall roar, and take hold of the prey, and they shall keep fast hold of it, and there shall be none to deliver it.

Isaiah 10:6,14 I will send him to a deceitful nation, and I will give him a charge against the people of my wrath, to take away the spoils, and to lay hold on the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. . . .

Nahum 2:12,13 The lion caught enough for his whelps, and killed for his lionesses: and he filled his holes with prey, and his den with rapine. . . .

to the

Psalm 137:1,2 Upon the rivers of Babylon, there we sat and wept: when we remembered Sion: . . .

brook of the willows.

Context
An Oracle Concerning Moab
…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.8For the cry is gone round about the border of Moab: the howling thereof unto Gallim, and unto the well of Elim the cry thereof.…
Cross References
Leviticus 23:40
And you shall take to you on the first day the fruits of the fairest tree, and branches of palm trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook: And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God.

Isaiah 15:8
For the cry is gone round about the border of Moab: the howling thereof unto Gallim, and unto the well of Elim the cry thereof.

Isaiah 30:6
The burden of the beasts of the south. In a land of trouble and distress, from whence come the lioness, and the lion, the viper and the flying basilisk, they carry their riches upon the shoulders of beasts, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels to a people that shall not be able to profit them.

Jeremiah 48:36
Therefore my heart shall sound for Moab like pipes and my heart shall sound like pipes for the men of the brick wall: because he hath done more than he could, therefore they have perished.

Isaiah 15:6
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