6For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the herb is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.


In Context

3 In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly.

4 And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard even to Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous to him.

5 My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee to Zoar, a heifer of three years old: for they shall go up the ascent of Luhith with weeping; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise a cry of destruction.

6 For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the herb is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.

7 Therefore the abundance they have gained, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.

8 For the cry hath gone round the borders of Moab, her howling to Eglaim, and her howling to Beer-elim.

Isaiah 15:6 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

15:6For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

15:6The waters of Nimrim are dried up and the grass is withered; the vegetation is gone and nothing green is left.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

15:6For the waters of Nemrim shall be desolate, for the grass is withered away, the spring is faded, all the greenness is perished.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

15:6For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate; for the grass is withered away, the tender grass faileth, there is no green thing.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

15:6For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate; for the herbage is withered away, the grass hath failed, there is no green thing.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

15:6For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the grass is withered away, the tender grass faileth, there is no green thing.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

15:6For the waters of Nimrim will be desolate; for the grass has withered away, the tender grass fails, there is no green thing.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

15:6For, 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.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

15:6For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass fails, there is no green thing.