Isaiah 15:7

Translations

Modern

So they carry their wealth and belongings over the Brook of the Willows.

Traditional

Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.

Literal

Upon thus, the abundance he made and their store, they carry them over the Brook of the Willows.

Latin

Secundum magnitudinem operis, et visitatio eorum: ad torrentem Salicum ducent eos.

Original

Hebrew

English

So they carry their wealth and belongings over the Brook of the Willows.

Notes

Isaiah 15:7–8

The exact locations of the Brook of the Willows, Eglaim, and Beer-elim are unknown.

Isaiah 15:1–16:14

This message of judgment and sorrow was about Moab's fall. The many references to Moabite places show that Isaiah knew Moab well.

Theme notes and profiles

Isaiah Messages Against the Nations Salvation in Isaiah

Events

Prophecies of Isaiahc. 759 BC

Related verses

Jeremiah 48:36
Therefore My heart laments like a flute for Moab; it laments like a flute for the men of Kir-heres, because the wealth they acquired has perished.
Isaiah 10:6
I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.
Nahum 2:12–13
The lion mauled enough for its cubs and strangled prey for the lioness. It filled its dens with the kill, and its lairs with mauled prey.
Isaiah 5:29
Their roaring is like that of a lion; they roar like young lions. They growl and seize their prey; they carry it away, and no one can rescue it.
Isaiah 30:6
This is the burden against the beasts of the Negev: Through a land of hardship and distress, of lioness and lion, of viper and flying serpent, they carry their wealth on the backs of donkeys and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people of no profit to them.
Isaiah 10:14
My hand reached as into a nest to seize the wealth of the nations. Like one gathering abandoned eggs, I gathered all the earth. No wing fluttered, no beak opened or chirped.’”
Psalm 137:1–2
By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.

Parallels

Jeremiah 48:1–47

Places

Brook of the Willows: Boundary of Moab's territory

Glossary

Book of Jeremiah Brook of the Willows Edom, Edomites Isaiah, Book of Kerioth Moab, Moabites Willow

Topics

Brooks of the Willows Moabites: Prophesies Respecting: Desolation and Grief

Isaiah 15:7

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