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Isaiah 19:6

What does Isaiah 19:6 mean?

A plain-English look at Isaiah 19:6 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

And the rivers shall become foul; the streams of Egypt shall be diminished and dried up; the reeds and flags shall wither away.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

And the rivers shall become foul; the streams of Egypt shall be diminished and dried up; the reeds and flags shall wither away.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

And the rivers will have an evil smell; the stream of Egypt will become small and dry: all the water-plants will come to nothing.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

And they have turned away the flowings, Weak and dried up have been brooks of the bulwark, Reed and flag have withered.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

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.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

and the rivers shall stink, and the streams of Egypt shall be diminished and drain away: the reeds and sedges shall wither.

Context

v.5And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and become dry.

v.6This passage

v.7The meadows by the Nile, by the brink of the Nile, and all the sown fields of the Nile, shall become dry, be driven away, and be no more.

Cross references

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

  • Job 8:11

    Can the rush grow up without mire? Can the flag grow without water?

  • 2 Kings 19:24

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

  • Isaiah 18:2

    that sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people terrible from their beginning onward, a nation that meteth out and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide!

  • Exodus 7:18

    And the fish that are in the river shall die, and the river shall become foul; and the Egyptians shall loathe to drink water from the river.

  • Isaiah 15:6

    For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate; for the grass is withered away, the tender grass faileth, there is no green thing.

  • Isaiah 37:25

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

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