Isaiah 19:15

WEB

¹⁵Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which head or tail, palm branch or rush, may do.

KJV

¹⁵Neither shall there be any work^[+] for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.

BSB

¹⁵There is nothing Egypt can do— head or tail, palm or reed.

FBV

¹⁵Nobody in Egypt can do anything, whoever they are—head or tail, palm tree or reed.

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Extra References

Isaiah 9:14-15

¹⁴Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed, in one day. ¹⁵The elder and the honorable man is the head, and the prophet who teaches lies is the tail.

¹¹and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you, ¹²that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.

Haggai 1:11

¹¹I called for a drought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on that which the ground produces, on men, on livestock, and on all the labor of the hands.”

Psalms 128:2

²For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.

Proverbs 14:23

²³In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.

Habakkuk 3:17

¹⁷For even though the fig tree doesn’t flourish, nor fruit be in the vines, the labor of the olive fails, the fields yield no food, the flocks are cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stalls,