Isaiah 15:6 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

• Isaiah 15:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  For the waters of Nimrim - It is supposed by some that the prophet here states the cause why the Moabites would flee to the cities of the south, to wit, that the “waters” of the northern cities w...

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• Isaiah 15:6 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The Overthrow of Moab. A sudden catastrophe has overwhelmed Ar ( Numbers 21:15 *) and Kir in one night. The daughter (read bath for Bayith; cf . Jeremiah 48:18 ) of Dibon ( Numbers 21:30 *) h...

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• Isaiah 15:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Nimrim. Probably Wady Nimrim , near south end of Dead Sea. desolate . desolations.

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• Isaiah 15:6 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  6. The waters of Nimrim. By an exaggerated form of expression he gives a more enlarged view of this desolation. He says that the grass is withered, which takes place when God leaves any...

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• Isaiah 15:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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

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• Isaiah 15:6 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  My heart shall cry out for Moab— Hitherto the prophet had set forth the lamentation of the Moabites; but seeing these future evils as it were present to his own mind, he compassionates their griefs...

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• Isaiah 15:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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

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• Isaiah 15:6 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  1. Burden ] see on Isaiah 13:1 . Because.. night] RV 'For in a night.' Ar of Moab ] i.e. city of Moab. The capital ( Numbers 22:36 ; Joshua 13:16 ) is doubtless meant. The places referred to in...

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• Isaiah 15:6 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER XVII ISAIAH TO THE FOREIGN NATIONS 736-702 B.C. Isaiah 14:24-32 ; Isaiah 15:1-9 ; Isaiah 16:1-14 ; Isaiah 17:1-14 ; Isaiah 18:1-7 ; Isaiah 19:1-25 ; Isaiah 20:1-6 ; Isaiah 21:1-...

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• Isaiah 15:6 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  In this section we have three prophecies: concerning Assyria Isaiah 14:24-27 ), concerning Philistia Isaiah 14:28-32 ), and the commencement of one concerning Moab (15). This fragment concerning As...

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• Isaiah 15:6 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Everything contained in these verses is like the Prophet's roll, written within, and without, and full of nothing else but lamentation, and mourning, and woe. Alas! what an awful thing must it be, to...

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• Isaiah 15:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate ,.... Or dried up, through a great drought that should come upon the land at this time; or being defiled with the blood of the slain, as Jarchi: it may den...

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• Isaiah 15:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing. Ver. 6. For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate. ] What these waters of Nim...

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• Isaiah 15:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  For the waters , &c. The prophet, in these verses, sets forth the causes of lamentation among the inhabitants of the southern part of Moab. The first is the desolation of their fruitful fields,...

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• Isaiah 15:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Burden of Moab. B. C. 725.       6 For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the h...

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• Isaiah 15:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The waters; either, 1. Properly, they shall be dried up; or, 2. Figuratively, the waterish grounds, as waters seem to be taken, Ecclesiastes 11:1 Isaiah 32:20 . These being very fruitful...

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• Isaiah 15:6 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  ‘For the waters of Nimrim will be desolate, For the grass is withered away, The tender grass fails, There is no green thing.' Nimrim is possibly the Wadi Numeirah, which flows into the Dead Sea n...

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• Isaiah 15:6 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Isaiah 15:1 . The burden of Moab. Joshua had spared this nation by divine command, being, as descendants of Lot, relatives of the Hebrews. Deuteronomy 2:9 . But they made no returns: Eglon king o...

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• Isaiah 15:6 - The Biblical Illustrator

  The harden of Moab The Moabite stone From the inscription of Mesha (c. 900 B.C.), found at Dibon in 1869, and commonly known as the “Moabite stone,” we learn that the Moabites spoke a language...

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• Isaiah 15:6 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Isaiah 15:1-23 THE BURDEN OF MOAB . The present chapter and the next are very closely connected, and may be regarded as together constituting "the burden of Moab." It has...

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• Isaiah 15:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Prophecy against Moab.

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• Isaiah 15:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Habakkuk 3:17 ; Habakkuk 3:18 ; Isaiah 16:10 ; Isaiah 16:9 ; Joel 1:10-12 ; Joshua 13:27 ; Numbers 32:3 ; Numbers 32:36 ; Revelation 8:7

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• Isaiah 15:6 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Waters — Watery grounds being very fruitful, are commonly most inhabited; but now they also, much more the dry and barren grounds, shall be desolate and without inhabitant.

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