Isaiah 19:15

Isaiah chapter 19 · verse 15 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.14Jehovah hath mingled a spirit of perverseness in the midst of her; and they have caused Egypt to go astray in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.

v.15This passage

v.16In that day shall the Egyptians be like unto women; and they shall tremble and fear because of the shaking of the hand of Jehovah of hosts, which he shaketh over them.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Haggai 1:11

    And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the grain, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labor of the hands.

  • 1 Thessalonians 4:11

    and that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your hands, even as we charged you;

  • Proverbs 14:23

    In all labor there is profit; But the talk of the lipstendethonly to penury.

  • Psalms 128:2

    For thou shalt eat the labor of thy hands: Happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.

  • Isaiah 9:14

    Therefore Jehovah will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm-branch and rush, in one day.

  • Habakkuk 3:17

    For though the fig-tree shall not flourish, Neither shall fruit be in the vines; The labor of the olive shall fail, And the fields shall yield no food; The flock shall be cut off from the fold, And there shall be no herd in the stalls: