6For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.
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And Bethnimrah, and Bethharan, fenced cities: and folds for sheep.
And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up. …
The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth. …
Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon,
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: …
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 t…
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