Isaiah 15:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Isaiah 15:6 —

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Numbers 32:36
And Bethnimrah, and Bethharan, fenced cities: and folds for sheep.
Isaiah 19:5-7
And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up. …
Joel 1:10-12
The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth. …
Numbers 32:3
Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon,
Habakkuk 3:17-18
Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 6-9)

Here the prophet further describes the woeful and piteous lamentations that should be heard throughout all the country of Moab when it should become a prey to the Assyrian army. “By this time the cry has gone round about all the borders of Moab,” Isa. 15:8. Every corner of the country has received the alarm, and is in the utmost confusion upon it. It has reached to Eglaim, a city at one end of the…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 6)

6. For--the cause of their flight southwards (2Ki 3:19, 25). “For” the northern regions and even the city Nimrim (the very name of which means “limpid waters,” in Gilead near Jordan) are without water or herbage.