🕊️WEB · Isaiah 15:6

What does Isaiah 15:6 mean?

"For the waters of Nimrim will be desolate; for the grass has withered away, the tender grass fails, there is no green thing."

— Isaiah 15:6 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

3

In their streets, they clothe themselves in sackcloth. In their streets and on their housetops, everyone wails, weeping abundantly.

4

Heshbon cries out with Elealeh. Their voice is heard even to Jahaz. Therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud. Their souls tremble within them.

5

My heart cries out for Moab! Her nobles flee to Zoar, to Eglath Shelishiyah; for they go up by the ascent of Luhith with weeping; for on the way to Horonaim, they raise up a cry of destruction.

6

For the waters of Nimrim will be desolate; for the grass has withered away, the tender grass fails, there is no green thing.

7

Therefore they will carry away the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have stored up, over the brook of the willows.

8

For the cry has gone around the borders of Moab; its wailing to Eglaim, and its wailing to Beer Elim.

9

For the waters of Dimon are full of blood; for I will bring yet more on Dimon, a lion on those of Moab who escape, and on the remnant of the land.

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