Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
Amplified
For the waters of Nimrim are desolate.
Indeed the grass is withered, the new growth dies;
There is no green thing.
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 is crying out for Moab; her people go in flight to Zoar, and to Eglath-shelishiyah: for they go up with weeping by the slope of Luhith; on the way to Horonaim they send up a cry of destruction. 6 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. 7 For this cause they will take away their wealth, and the stores they have got together, over the stream of the water-plants.
Cross References
Numbers 32:36
And Beth-nimrah and Beth-haran: walled towns and shut-in places for sheep.
Joel 1:10-12
The fields are wasted, the land has become dry; for the grain is wasted, the new wine is kept back, the oil is poor.
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, having Jordan for its limit, to the end of the sea of Chinnereth on the east side of Jordan.
Isaiah 16:9-10
For this cause my sorrow for the vine of Sibmah will be like the weeping for Jazer: my eyes are dropping water on you, O Heshbon and Elealeh! For they are sounding the war-cry over your summer fruits and the getting in of your grain;
Isaiah 19:5-7
And the waters of the sea will be cut off, and the river will become dry and waste:
Jeremiah 48:34
The cry of Heshbon comes even to Elealeh; to Jahaz their voice is sounding; from Zoar even to Horonaim and to Eglath-shelishiyah: for the waters of Nimrim will become dry.
Habakkuk 3:17-18
For though the fig-tree has no flowers, and there is no fruit on the vine, and work on the olive comes to nothing, and the fields give no food; and the flock is cut off from its resting-place, and there is no herd in the cattle-house:
Revelation 8:7
And at the sounding of the first, a rain of ice and fire, mixed with blood, was sent on the earth: and a third part of the earth, and of the trees, and all green grass was burned up.