Isaiah 15:6 - Revised Standard Version CI

⁶ the waters of Nimrim are a desolation; the grass is withered, the new growth fails, the verdure is no more.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ For the waters of Nimrim are desolations, for the grass is withered away and the new growth fails; there is no green thing.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate; for the grass is withered away, the tender grass faileth, there is no green thing.

Common English Bible

⁶ The waters of Nimrim are used up. Grass has withered; vegetation is dead; greenery is gone.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ For the waters of Nimrim will be desolate, because the plants have withered, and the seedling has failed, and all the greenery has passed away.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ For the waters of Nemrim shall be desolate, for the grass is withered away: the spring is faded, all the greenness is perished.

Isaiah 15:6 Cross References

Jeremiah 14:5

Even the hind in the field forsakes her newborn calf because there is no grass.

Jeremiah 48:34

“Heshbon and Ele-aleh cry out; as far as Jahaz they utter their voice, from Zoar to Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah. For the waters of Nimrim also have become desolate.

Joel 2:3

Fire devours before them, and behind them a flame burns. The land is like the garden of Eden before them, but after them a desolate wilderness, and nothing escapes them.

Numbers 32:3

“Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,

Numbers 32:36

Beth-nimrah and Beth-haran, fortified cities, and folds for sheep.

Joshua 13:27

and in the valley Beth-haram, Beth-nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, having the Jordan as a boundary, to the lower end of the Sea of Chinnereth, eastward beyond the Jordan.

Revelation 8:7

The first angel blew his trumpet, and there followed hail and fire, mixed with blood, which fell on the earth; and a third of the earth was burnt up, and a third of the trees were burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.