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


In 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 in the way of 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.

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 Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

15:6For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the herb is withered away, the grass faileth, 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.