Isaiah 15:7 “So they carry their wealth and belongings over the Brook of the Willow…”

Isaiah 15:7

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

Therefore they will carry away the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have stored up, over the brook of the willows.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Therefore what euery man hath left, and their substance shall they beare to the brooke of the willowes.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

Therefore the abundance he made, and their store, Unto the brook of the willows they carry.

Bible in Basic English

For this cause they will take away their wealth, and the stores they have got together, over the stream of the water-plants.

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Cross references

“the abundance”

Isaiah 5:29 Isaiah 10:6 Isaiah 10:14 Nahum 2:12 Nahum 2:13

Isaiah 5:29 · BSB

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 10:6 · BSB

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.

Isaiah 10:14 · BSB

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.’”

Nahum 2:12 · BSB

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.

Nahum 2:13 · BSB

“Behold, I am against you,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will reduce your chariots to cinders, and the sword will devour your young lions. I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voices of your messengers will…

“to the”

Psalm 137:1 Psalm 137:2

Psalm 137:1 · BSB

By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.

Psalm 137:2 · BSB

There on the willows we hung our harps,

Also

Jeremiah 48:36 Isaiah 30:6

Jeremiah 48:36 · BSB

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 30:6 · BSB

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 hu…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

6The waters of Nimrim are dried up, and the grass is withered; the vegetation is gone, and the greenery is no more.

8For their outcry echoes to the border of Moab. Their wailing reaches Eglaim; it is heard in Beer-elim.

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