Isaiah 19:6
And the rivers shall become foul; and shallow and dried up shall become the deep streams: reeds and flags shall wither.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
5And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
Cross References
Exodus 2:3And when she could no longer hide him, she took for him a box of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch; and she put the child therein, and laid it amidst the flags by the brink of the river.
2 Kings 19:24I have dug and drunk strange waters, and I will dry up with the sole of my feet all the streams of besieged places.
Job 8:12It is yet in its greenness, not yet cut down, when it withereth before any other grass.
Isaiah 18:2That sendeth on the sea ambassadors, and in vessels of bulrushes messengers over the face of the waters. Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation pulled and torn, to a people terrible from their beginning and onward; a nation meted out and trodden down, 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 →