Isaiah 19:6

WEB

⁶The rivers will become foul. The streams of Egypt will be diminished and dried up. The reeds and flags will wither away.

KJV

⁶And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.

BSB

⁶The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will trickle and dry up; the reeds and rushes will wither.

FBV

⁶The channels will start to stink; the branches of the Nile in Egypt will dry to a trickle and dry up; the reeds and rushes will wither away.

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Extra References

Isaiah 37:25

²⁵I have dug and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt.”

Job 8:11

¹¹“Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without water?

2 Kings 19:24

²⁴I have dug and drunk strange waters, and I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt with the sole of my feet.”

Exodus 7:18

¹⁸The fish that are in the river will die and the river will become foul. The Egyptians will loathe to drink water from the river.”’”

Exodus 2:3

³When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank.

Isaiah 15:6

⁶For the waters of Nimrim will be desolate; for the grass has withered away, the tender grass fails, there is no green thing.

²that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus on the waters, saying, “Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide!”