Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The waters of Nimrim were dried up, the grass was withered, and the herbs destroyed, and the green things gone.
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.
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 Woe is my heart for Moab's sake. They fled unto the city of Zoar, which is like a fair young bullock of three years old; they went up to Luhith, weeping. The way toward Horonaim was full of lamentation for the hurt. 6 The waters of Nimrim were dried up, the grass was withered, and the herbs destroyed, and the green things gone. 7 As for their substance, the enemies have carried them to the brook of willows.
Cross References
Numbers 32:36
Bethnimra and Bethharan fenced cities, and they built folds for their sheep.
Joel 1:10-12
The field shall be wasted, the land shall be in a miserable cause: for the corn shall be destroyed, the sweet wine shall come to confusion, and the oil utterly desolate.
Numbers 32:3
"The land of Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,
Joshua 13:27
And in the valley they had Betharam, Bethnimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, and Jordan and the coasts that lie thereon, even unto the edge of the sea of Chinnereth, on the other side Jordan eastward.
Isaiah 16:9-10
Therefore I mourned for Jazer, and for the vineyards of Sibmah with great sorrow. I poured my tears upon Heshbon and Elealeh, for all their songs were laid down, in their harvest and gathering of their grapes.
Isaiah 19:5-7
The water of the sea shall be drawn out, the Nile shall sink away, and be drunk up.
Jeremiah 48:34
which aforetime were heard from Heshbon to Elealeh, and Jahaz, which lifted up their voice from Zoar unto Horonaim, that bullock of three years old. The waters also of Nimrim shall be dried up.
Habakkuk 3:17-18
For the fig trees shall not be green, and the vines shall bear no fruit. The labour of the olive shall be but lost, and the land shall bring no corn: the sheep shall be taken out of the fold, and there shall be no cattle in the stalls.
Revelation 8:7
The first angel blew, and there was made hail and fire, which were mingled with blood, and they were cast into the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt, and all green grass was burnt.