Holy Scripture

Isaiah 15:6

A church father on this verse
“(Verse 6) For the waters of Nemrim will be deserted. This town is on the Dead Sea, with salty waters, and even this itself is barren. Whether it alludes to the name, or whether it happened after the devastation, that even the waters turned bitter. Because the grass has withered, the bud has failed, all the greenness h…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Isaiah

Source: Septuagint

Original

6The water of Nimrim shall be desolate, and the grass thereof shall fail: for there shall be no green grass.

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4For Heshbon and Elealeh have cried: their voice was heard to Jahaz: therefore the loins of the region of Moab cry aloud; her soul shall know.

5The heart of the region of Moab cries within her to Zoar; for it is as a heifer of three years old: and on the ascent of Eglath they shall go up to thee weeping by the way of Horonaim: she cries, Destruction, and trembling.

— Isaiah 15:6 —

7Shall Moab even thus be delivered? for I will bring the Arabians upon the valley, and they shall take it.

8For the cry has reached the border of the region of Moab, even of Eglaim; and her howling has gone as far as the well of Elim.

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