Isaiah 15:6

Isaiah 15:6 says, For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.  Isaiah also said that God promised a famine would come on Moab because of the victory of the Assyrian army.  The prophesy was that there would be nothing growing because the waters of Nimrim would dry up, but Matthew Henry says this means that the country would be plundered and impoverished and all their wealth swept away.  The army of Assyria and their horses would have devoured all the grass, or it would have been destroyed in the war.  I believe that God could have just caused the river to dry up, but either way or both ways, where the people of Moab had been blessed with plenty of grass for their own cattle, their land would now be desolate.  How God accomplishes His will in the world isn’t the important thing.  That it is accomplished is what is important. 

Verse seven adds, Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.  Isaiah said that all the abundance that the people of Moab had gotten would be carried away.  Everything that we have that we have not gotten by being obedient to God’s word and laying up treasures in heaven will be carried away on judgment day.  I am really not sure what treasures in heaven will look like, since we will be walking on streets of gold, but I am pretty sure it won’t be material things. 

Verse eight continues, For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beerelim.  There would be a cry throughout Moab when this destruction came.  There will be a great cry throughout the lost world, those who have not accepted Jesus Christ as their personal Savior and Lord, when the judgment of God comes. 

Verse nine concludes, For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for I will bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land.  The waters of the Dimon would be filled with the blood of those who were slain, and those that escaped the Assyrian army would die by beasts of prey.  None of the people of Moab were going to escape God’s judgment, and even those who have not accepted God’s gift of salvation and escape His judgment in this lifetime will not escape His everlasting judgment.