Teks -- Isaiah 15:6 (NET)

15:6 For the waters of Nimrim are gone; the grass is dried up, the vegetation has disappeared, and there are no plants.

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Wesley: Isa 15:6 - 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.

JFB: Isa 15:6 - For

The cause of their flight southwards (2Ki 3:19, 2Ki 3:25). "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.

Calvin: Isa 15:6 - The waters of Nimrim

6.The waters of Nimrim By an exaggerated form of expression he gives a more enlarged view of this desolation. He says that the grass is withered, which takes place when God leaves any soil destitute of all nourishment. The waters will be taken away, which probably were highly necessary for that dry and parched country; for soils of that kind produce nothing without irrigation. Though the style is exaggerated, yet nothing is stated but what is strictly true; for the Prophet did not go beyond proper bounds, but found it necessary to use bold expressions to suit the ignorance of the people, in order to inform them that a land which is deprived of the blessing of God will be like a desert without any beauty.

TSK: Isa 15:6 - Nimrim // desolate // the grass

Nimrim : Num 32:3, Num 32:36, Nimrah, Beth-nimrah, Jos 13:27, Beth-nimrah

desolate : Heb. desolations

the grass : Isa 16:9, Isa 16:10; Joe 1:10-12; Hab 3:17, Hab 3:18; Rev 8:7

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Poole: Isa 15:6 - The waters // There is no green thing

The waters either,

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

2. Figuratively, the waterish grounds, as waters seem to be taken, Ecc 11:1 Isa 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.

Haydock: Isa 15:6 - Nemrim

Nemrim. Or Nemra, (Numbers xxxii. 3.) to the north of Segor. (Calmet) ---

The country around hence became barren. (St. Jerome)

Gill: Isa 15:6 - 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,.... 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 the well watered pastures about Nimrim, that should become the forage of the enemy, and be trodden under foot by its army, or be forsaken by the proprietors of them. Josephus ^m speaks of fountains of hot water springing up in the country of Peraea, where Nimrim was, of a different taste, some bitter, and others sweet; which, Dr. Lightfoot ⁿ suggests, might be these waters of Nimrim; and, according to the Jerusalem Talmud ^o, Bethnimrah was in that part of the country which was called the valley, and so was very fruitful with springs of water. The word is in the plural number, and may design more places of the same name; and we read of Nimrah and Bethnimrah, Num 32:3. Jerom ^p calls it Nemra, and says it was a large village in his time; it seems to have its name from panthers or leopards, of which there might be many in these parts:

for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing; by which it seems that the desolation spoken of was not merely through the forage and trampling of the enemy's army, but by a drought.