Isaiah 19:6
And the rivers will fail. The streams of its banks will diminish and dry up. The reed and the bulrush will wither away.
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In Context
5And the waters of the sea will dry up, and the river will be desolate and dry.
Cross References
Exodus 2:3And when she was no longer able to hide him, she took a small basket woven of bulrushes, and she smeared it with pitch as well as tar. And she placed the little infant inside, and she laid him in the sedges by the bank of the river.
2 Kings 19:24I have cut down. And I drank foreign waters, and I dried up all the enclosed waters with the steps of my feet.’
Job 8:12When it is still in flower, and has not been pulled up by hand, it withers before all other plants.
Isaiah 18:2which sends ambassadors by sea and in vessels of papyrus above the waters. Go forth, O swift Angels, to a nation which has been convulsed and torn apart, to a terrible people, after whom there is no other, to a nation apprehensive and downtrodden, whose land the rivers have spoiled.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 19:2-18
The Doom of Egypt. ( b. c. 710.) 1 The burden of Egypt. Behold, the Lord rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it. 2 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom. 3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel… Read the whole commentary →