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.

ISAIAH 15:9KJV
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Isaiah 15:9 (KJV)

What does Isaiah 15:9 mean?

Isaiah 15:9 portrays Moab’s suffering as continuing even after a bloody disaster. God says that those who escape and those who remain in the land will face further danger from lions.

The blood-filled waters of Dimon picture the scale of the slaughter. After verse 8 describes cries reaching Moab’s borders, verse 9 shifts to God’s words: “I will bring more.” The mention of lions makes the danger vivid for people trying to survive.

The Hebrew behind Isaiah 15:9

  • “more” — יָסַף (yasaf): This word carries the sense of adding or doing something further. Here, God’s words point to trouble beyond the bloodshed already pictured.
  • “remnant” — שְׁאֵרִית (she’erit): This word means what is left or remains. In Isaiah 15:9, it refers to people still in the land after the disaster.

Why Isaiah 15:9 matters

  • The verse distinguishes escape from safety. “Him that escapeth of Moab” still faces the danger God describes.
  • The threat reaches those who stay as well as those who flee. The “remnant of the land” stands alongside the escapee as a target of the lions.
  • The verse closes a passage filled with sounds of grief. Isaiah 15 has described Moab’s people weeping and crying out; verse 9 gives those cries a stark setting in the blood-filled waters of Dimon.

Where else these words appear

“escapeth” Hebrew H6413 · used in 28 verses

  • Genesis 32:8 And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape.
  • 2 Chronicles 20:24 And when Judah came toward the watch tower in the wilderness, they looked unto the multitude, and, behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and none escaped.
  • Isaiah 37:31 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:

“remnant” Hebrew H7611 · used in 66 verses

  • Genesis 45:7 And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
  • Jeremiah 23:3 And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase.
  • Ezekiel 11:13 And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou make a full end of the remnant of Israel?

“lions” Hebrew H738 · used in 72 verses

  • Genesis 49:9 Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
  • 2 Kings 17:25 And so it was at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they feared not the LORD: therefore the LORD sent lions among them, which slew some of them.
  • Jeremiah 2:30 In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

“bring” Hebrew H7896 · used in 80 verses

  • Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
  • Job 10:20 Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
  • Psalms 88:6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.