Isaiah 19:6
The rivers will become foul. The streams of Egypt will be diminished and dried up. The reeds and flags will wither away.
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In Context
5The waters will fail from the sea, and the river will be wasted and become dry.
Cross References
Exodus 2:3When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank.
2 Kings 19:24I have dug and drunk strange waters, and I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt with the sole of my feet.”
Job 8:12While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.
Isaiah 18:2that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus on the waters, saying, “Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide!”
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 →