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The Burden against Moab

Isaiah 15:7

In 11 translations

BSB
So they carry their wealth and belongings over the Brook of the Willows.Or Poplars
KJV
Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.brook…: or, valley of the Arabians
WEB
Therefore they will carry away the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have stored up, over the brook of the willows.
ASV
Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away over the brook of the willows.
LSV
Therefore the abundance he made, and their store, || They carry to the Brook of the Willows.
YLT
Therefore the abundance he made, and their store, Unto the brook of the willows they carry.
DBY
Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, do they carry away to the torrent of the willows.
DRC
According to the greatness of their work, is their visitation also: they shall lead them to the torrent of the willows.
GNV
Therefore what euery man hath left, and their substance shall they beare to the brooke of the willowes.
JPS
Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.
LXXE
Shall Moab even thus be delivered? for I will bring the Arabians upon the valley, and they shall take it.

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Original-language editions

WLC
עַל־כֵּ֖ן יִתְרָ֣ה עָשָׂ֑ה וּפְקֻדָּתָ֔ם עַ֛ל נַ֥חַל הָעֲרָבִ֖ים יִשָּׂאֽוּם׃
LXX-Br
Μὴ καὶ οὕτως μέλλει σωθῇναι; ἐπάξω γὰρ ἐπὶ τὴν φάραγγα Ἄραβας, καὶ λήψονται αὐτήν.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Jeremiah 48:36Therefore My heart laments like a flute for Moab; it laments like a flute for the men of Kir-heres, because the wealth they acquired has perished.
  • Isaiah 30:6This is the burden against the beasts of the Negev: Through a land of hardship and distress, of lioness and lion, of viper and flying serpent, they carry their wealth on the backs of donkeys and their treasures on the…
  • Psalms 137:1–2By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion. There on the willows we hung our harps,
  • Nahum 2:12–13The lion mauled enough for its cubs and strangled prey for the lioness. It filled its dens with the kill, and its lairs with mauled prey. “Behold, I am against you,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will send your…
  • Isaiah 5:29Their roaring is like that of a lion; they roar like young lions. They growl and seize their prey; they carry it away from deliverance.
  • Isaiah 10:14My hand reached as into a nest to seize the wealth of the nations. Like one gathering abandoned eggs, I gathered all the earth. No wing fluttered, no beak opened or chirped.’”
  • Isaiah 10:6I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.

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