Isaiah 19:6

And the neharot (streams, canals) shall turn foul; 1 and the moats shall be emptied and dried up; 1 the reeds and rushes shall wither. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

5And the mayim shall roll back from the yam, 1 and the Nile shall be parched and dried up. 1

7The bare places by the Nile, by the mouth of the Nile, 1 and everything sown by the Nile, 1 shall wither, be blown away, v'einenu (and be no more). 1

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Cross References

Exodus 2:3And when she could no longer hide him, she took for him a tevah (ark) of papyrus, and daubed it with tar and with pitch, and put the yeled therein; and she set it in the reeds by the bank of the Nile.

2 Kings 19:24I have dug and drunk mayim zarim, 1 and with the sole of my feet have I dried up 1 all the streams of the besieged places. 1

Job 8:12Whilst it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, 1 it withereth before kol khatzir (all grass). 1

Isaiah 18:2That sendeth envoys by the yam, 1 even in vessels of gomeh (papyrus) upon the mayim, saying, 1 Go, ye swift malachim, to a Goy (nation) tall and smooth of skin, 1 to an Am Norah far away on the other side; 1 a Goy powerful and treading down, 1 whose land the neharim (rivers) divide! 1

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 →

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