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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Isaiah 15:6

The waters; either,

1. Properly, they shall be dried up; or,

2. Figuratively, the waterish grounds, as waters seem to be taken, Ecclesiastes 11:1 Isaiah 32:20. These being very fruitful, are commonly most inhabited and cultivated; but now they also, and much more the dry and barren grounds, shall be desolate, and without inhabitant. There is no green thing, by the just and special judgment of God. Thus God and man conspire together to destroy them.

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See also Isaiah 15:6 in other biblical comments:

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    NIMRIM. Probably _Wady Nimrim_, near south end of Dead Sea. DESOLATE. desolations....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    (Jeremiah 48:34) _the waters of Nimrim_are generally supposed to be connected with Beth-nimrah (Numbers 32:36), now Tell-nimrin, on the Wadi Shaib, flowing into the Jordan about 8 miles from its mouth...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The flight of the Moabites....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing. FOR THE WATERS OF NIMRIM SHALL BE DESOLATE ... THERE IS NO GREEN THING - the ca...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    SHALL BE DESOLATE] because they have been stopped at the source (2 Kings 3:19; 2 Kings 3:25). HAY.. GRASS] RV 'grass.. tender grass.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּֽי ־מֵ֥י נִמְרִ֖ים מְשַׁמֹּ֣ות יִֽהְי֑וּ כִּֽי...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    FOR THE WATERS OF NIMRIM SHALL BE DESOLATE,.... Or dried up, through a great drought that should come upon the land at this time; or being defiled with the blood of the slain, as Jarchi: it may denote...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing. Ver. 6. _For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate._] What these waters of Nimri...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _For the waters_, &c. The prophet, in these verses, sets forth the causes of lamentation among the inhabitants of the southern part of Moab. The first is the desolation of their fruitful fields, Isaia...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    For the waters of Nimrim, known for the freshness of their springs, SHALL BE DESOLATE, filled with earth or rubbish by the invaders; FOR THE HAY IS WITHERED AWAY, THE GRASS FAILETH, THERE IS NO GREEN...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    PROPHECY AGAINST MOAB....

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    DESOLATE: _ Heb._ desolations...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 15:6 waters H4325 Nimrim H5249 desolate H4923 grass H2682 away H3001 (H8804) grass H1877 fails H3615 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘For the waters of Nimrim will be desolate, For the grass is withered away, The tender grass fails, There is no green thing.' Nimrim is possibly the Wadi Numeirah, which flows into the Dead Sea ne...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: The burden of Moab. Prophecy of great desolations upon the earth. CHARACTERS: God, Isaiah. CONCLUSION: Great and dismal changes may in the providence of God be made within a very short tim...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 15:1. _The burden of Moab._ Joshua had spared this nation by divine command, being, as descendants of Lot, relatives of the Hebrews. Deuteronomy 2:9. But they made no returns: Eglon king of Moa...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _The harden of Moab_ THE MOABITE STONE From the inscription of Mesha (c. 900 B.C.), found at Dibon in 1869, and commonly known as the “Moabite stone,” we learn that the Moabites spoke a language dif...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 15:1 The third oracle concerns Moab. Jeremiah 48:1 parallels and expands this passage....

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION ISAIAH 15:1 THE BURDEN OF MOAB. The present chapter and the next are very closely connected, and may be regarded as together constituting "the burden of Moab." It has been argued on critic...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now in chapter 15, he turns his attention against Moab, that area that lies just east of the Jordan and of the Dead Sea. And he begins to speak of the destruction of Moab and of some of the major citi...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Habakkuk 3:17; Habakkuk 3:18; Isaiah 16:10; Isaiah 16:9; Joel 1:10;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Waters — Watery grounds being very fruitful, are commonly most inhabited; but now they also, much more the dry and barren grounds, shall be desolate and without inhabitant....

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