Isaiah 19:6
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And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will trickle and dry up; the reeds and rushes will wither.
In other translations
And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will trickle and dry up; the reeds and rushes will wither.
Hebrew words
וְהֶאֶזְנִיחוּvehe'eznichuand they will stinkH2186נְהָרוֹתneharot[the] riversH5104דָּלֲלוּdalaluthey will be lowH1809וְחָרְבוּvecharevuand they will become dryH2717יְאֹרֵיye'orei[the] canals ofH2975מָצוֹרmatzorEgyptH4693קָנֶהkanehreed[s]H7070וָסוּףvasufand rush[es]H5488קָמֵלוּ׃kameluthey will witherH7060
Word by word from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew reads right to left.
Related verses
- Isaiah 37:25I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.I have dug wells and drunk foreign waters. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”
- Job 8:11Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?Does papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Do reeds flourish without water?
- Exodus 7:18And the fish that is in the river shall die, and the river shall stink; and the Egyptians shall lothe to drink of the water of the river.The fish in the Nile will die, the river will stink, and the Egyptians will be unable to drink its water.’”
- Exodus 2:3And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink.But when she could no longer hide him, she got him a papyrus basket and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in the basket and set it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.
- 2 Kings 19:24I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.I have dug wells and drunk foreign waters. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”
- Isaiah 15:6For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.The waters of Nimrim are dried up, and the grass is withered; the vegetation is gone, and the greenery is no more.
- Isaiah 18:2That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!which sends couriers by sea, in papyrus vessels on the waters. Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people widely feared, to a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers.
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