◄ Isaiah 19:6 ►
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Good News Translation
The channels of the river will stink as they slowly go dry. Reeds and rushes will wither,

New Revised Standard Version
its canals will become foul, and the branches of Egypt’s Nile will diminish and dry up, reeds and rushes will rot away.

Contemporary English Version
Its streams will stink, Egypt will have no water, and the reeds and tall grass will dry up.

New American Bible
Its streams shall become foul, and the canals of Egypt shall dwindle and parch. Reeds and rushes shall wither away,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the rivers shall fail: the streams of the banks shall be diminished, and be dried up. The reed and the bulrush shall wither away.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the rivers shall fail: the streams of the banks shall be diminished, and be dried up. The reed and the bulrush shall wither away.

and the

Isaiah 37:25 I have digged, and drunk water, and have dried up with the sole of my foot, all the rivers shut up in banks.

2 Kings 19:24 I have cut down, and I have drunk strange waters, and have dried up with the soles of my feet all the shut up waters.

the reeds

Isaiah 18:2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, and in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters. Go, ye swift angels, to a nation rent and torn in pieces: to a terrible people, after which there is no other: to a nation expecting and trodden underfoot, whose land the rivers have spoiled.

Exodus 2:3 And when she could hide him no longer, she took a basket made of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and pitch: and put the little babe therein, and laid him in the sedges by the river's brink,

Job 8:11 Can the rush be green without moisture? or sedge bush grow without water?

Context
An Oracle Concerning Egypt
…5And the water of the sea shall be dried up, and the river shall be wasted and dry. 6And the rivers shall fail: the streams of the banks shall be diminished, and be dried up. The reed and the bulrush shall wither away.7The channel of the river shall be laid bare from its fountain, and every thing sown by the water shall be dried up, it shall wither away, and shall be no more.…
Cross References
Genesis 41:2
Out of which came up seven kine, very beautiful and fat: and they fed in marshy places.

Exodus 2:3
And when she could hide him no longer, she took a basket made of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and pitch: and put the little babe therein, and laid him in the sedges by the river's brink,

Exodus 7:18
And the fishes that are in the river, shall die, and the waters shall be corrupted, and the Egyptians shall be afflicted when they drink the water of the river.

2 Kings 19:24
I have cut down, and I have drunk strange waters, and have dried up with the soles of my feet all the shut up waters.

Job 8:11
Can the rush be green without moisture? or sedge bush grow without water?

Isaiah 15:6
For the waters of Nemrim shall be desolate, for the grass is withered away, the spring is faded, all the greenness is perished.

Isaiah 37:25
I have digged, and drunk water, and have dried up with the sole of my foot, all the rivers shut up in banks.

Nahum 3:8
Art thou better than the populous Alexandria, that dwelleth among the rivers? waters are round about it: the sea is its riches: the waters are its walls.

Isaiah 19:5
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