Isaiah 15:6

In 11 translations

BSB

The waters of Nimrim are dried up, and the grass is withered; the vegetation is gone, and the greenery is no more.

KJV

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

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

For the waters of Nimrim are desolations, || For the hay has been withered, || The tender grass has been finished, || There has not been a green thing.

YLT

For, 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.

DBY

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

DRC

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

GNV

For the waters of Nimrim shall be dried vp: therefore the grasse is withered, the herbes consumed, and there was no greene herbe.

JPS

For the Waters of Nimrim shall be desolate; for the grass is withered away, the herbage faileth, there is no green thing.

LXXE

The water of Nemerim shall be desolate, and the grass thereof shall fail: for there shall be no green grass.

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Original-language editions

WLC

כִּֽי־מֵ֥י נִמְרִ֖ים מְשַׁמּ֣וֹת יִֽהְי֑וּ כִּֽי־יָבֵ֤שׁ חָצִיר֙ כָּ֣לָה דֶ֔שֶׁא יֶ֖רֶק לֹ֥א הָיָֽה׃

LXX-Br

Τὸ ὕδωρ τῆς Νεμηρεὶμ ἔρημον ἔσται, καὶ ὁ χόρτος αὐτῆς ἐκλείψει· χόρτος γὰρ χλωρὸς οὐκ ἔσται.

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• Numbers 32:36Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran as fortified cities, and they built folds for their flocks.
• Joel 1:10–12The field is ruined; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the oil fails. Be dismayed, O farmers, wail, O vinedressers, over the wheat and barley, because the harvest of the field…
• Isaiah 19:5–7The waters of the Nile will dry up, and the riverbed will be parched and empty. The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will trickle and dry up; the reeds and rushes will wither. The bulrushes by the Nile, by the…
• Joshua 13:27and in the valley, Beth-haram, Beth-nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, with the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon (the territory on the east side of the Jordan up to the edge of the Sea of Chinnereth).
• Numbers 32:3“Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,
• Revelation 8:7Then the first angel sounded his trumpet, and hail and fire mixed with blood were hurled down upon the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, along with a third of the trees and all the green grass.
• Habakkuk 3:17–18Though the fig tree does not bud and no fruit is on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though the sheep are cut off from the fold and no cattle are in the stalls, yet I will exult in…
• Isaiah 16:9–10So I weep with Jazer for the vines of Sibmah; I drench Heshbon and Elealeh with my tears. Triumphant shouts have fallen silent over your summer fruit and your harvest. Joy and gladness are removed from the orchard; no…
• Jeremiah 48:34There is a cry from Heshbon to Elealeh; they raise their voices to Jahaz, from Zoar to Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah; for even the waters of Nimrim have dried up.

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