Parallel Verses
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.
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 shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall go up with weeping by the hill of Luhith unto Zoar, a heifer of three years; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction.
6
Surely the grass is withered, the tender grass
There is
Cross References
Numbers 32:36
and Bethnimrah and Bethharan, fenced cities, and also folds for sheep.
Joel 1:10-12
The field was destroyed, the land mourns; for the wheat was destroyed; the new wine was dried up, the oil perished.
Numbers 32:3
Ataroth and Dibon and Jazer and Nimrah and Heshbon and Elealeh and Shebam and Nebo and Beon,
Joshua 13:27
and the valley of Betharam and Bethnimrah and Succoth and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon, king of Heshbon, the Jordan and its border, even unto the edge of the sea of Chinnereth on the other side of the Jordan eastward.
Isaiah 16:9-10
Therefore I will bewail with the weeping Jazer of the vine of Sibmah; I will cause thee to drink my tears, O Heshbon and Elealeh, for the song shall cease upon thy summer fruits and thy harvest.
Isaiah 19:5-7
And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
Jeremiah 48:34
The cry, from Heshbon even unto Elealeh, and even unto Jahaz, they have uttered their voice; from Zoar even unto Horonaim, as a heifer of three years old; for the waters of Nimrim shall also be destroyed.
Habakkuk 3:17-18
Because the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be on the vines; the labour of the olive shall lie, and the cultivated fields shall yield no food; the sheep shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:
Revelation 8:7
The first angel sounded the trumpet, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the land; and the third part of the trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.