Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate; for the grass is withered away, the tender grass faileth, there is no green thing.
New American Standard Bible
Surely the grass is withered, the tender grass
There is
King James Version
For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.
Holman Bible
the grass is withered, the foliage is gone,
and the vegetation has vanished.
International Standard Version
The Nimrim waters are desolate; the grass is withered, its vegetation gone; there is no foliage left.
A Conservative Version
For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate, for the grass is withered away. The tender grass fails. There is no green thing.
Amplified
For the waters of Nimrim are desolate.
Indeed the grass is withered, the new growth dies;
There is no green thing.
Bible in Basic English
The waters of Nimrim will become dry: for the grass is burned up, the young grass is coming to an end, every green thing is dead.
Darby Translation
For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate; for the herbage is withered away, the grass hath failed, there is no green thing.
Julia Smith Translation
For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolation; for the grass dried up, the herbage failed; there was no green.
King James 2000
For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the green grass has withered away, the grass fails, there is no green thing.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For the waters of Nimrim are wastelands; for [the] grass has withered, [the] vegetation has vanished, [there is] no greenness.
Modern King James verseion
For the waters of Nimrim are desolation; for the hay has dried up and the grass fails, there is no green thing.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The waters of Nimrim were dried up, the grass was withered, and the herbs destroyed, and the green things gone.
NET Bible
For the waters of Nimrim are gone; the grass is dried up, the vegetation has disappeared, and there are no plants.
New Heart English Bible
For the waters of Nimrim will be desolate; for the grass has withered away, the tender grass fails, there is no green thing.
The Emphasized Bible
For, the waters of Nimrim, shall become desolation, - For grass, hath dried up, Herbage hath failed, Green thing, hath not sprung up!
Webster
For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the herb is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.
World English Bible
For the waters of Nimrim will be desolate; for the grass has withered away, the tender grass fails, there is no green thing.
Youngs Literal Translation
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.
Interlinear
Mayim
Yabesh
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 15:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Oracle Of Judgment On Moab
5 My heart crieth out for Moab; her nobles flee unto Zoar, to Eglath-shelishi-yah: for by the ascent of Luhith with weeping they go up; for in the way of Horonaim they raise up a cry of destruction. 6 For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate; for the grass is withered away, the tender grass faileth, there is no green thing. 7 Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away over the brook of the willows.
Cross References
Numbers 32:36
and Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran: fortified cities, and folds for sheep.
Joel 1:10-12
The field is laid waste, the land mourneth; for the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
Numbers 32:3
Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Sebam, and Nebo, and Beon,
Joshua 13:27
and in the valley, Beth-haram, and Beth-nimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, the Jordan and the border thereof , unto the uttermost part of the sea of Chinnereth beyond the Jordan eastward.
Isaiah 16:9-10
Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah; I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for upon thy summer fruits and upon thy harvest the battle'shout is fallen.
Isaiah 19:5-7
And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and become dry.
Jeremiah 48:34
From the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh, even unto Jahaz have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even unto Horonaim, to Eglath-shelishiyah: for the waters of Nimrim also shall become desolate.
Habakkuk 3:17-18
For though the fig-tree shall not flourish, Neither shall fruit be in the vines; The labor of the olive shall fail, And the fields shall yield no food; The flock shall be cut off from the fold, And there shall be no herd in the stalls:
Revelation 8:7
And the first sounded, and there followed hail and fire, mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of the earth was burnt up, and the third part of the trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.