Isaiah 19:6

And rivers, shall stink, The canals of Egypt be shallow and waste, Reed and rush, be withered;

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 waters shall be dried up from the great stream,—And the River, shall waste and be dry;

7The meadows by the Nile, by the mouth of the Nile. And all that is sown in the Nile, Shall be dry, driven away, and not be!

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Cross References

Exodus 2:3And when she could no longer hide him, she took for him an ark of paper-reed, and covered it over with bitumen, and with pitch,—and put therein the child, and laid it among the rushes upon the bank of the river.

2 Kings 19:24I, have digged, and have drunk foreign waters,—and have dried up, with the soles of my feet, all the streams of besieged places.

Job 8:12Though while still, in its freshness, it be not plucked off, yet, before any kind of grass, it doth wither:

Isaiah 18:2That sendeth by the sea, ambassadors Even in vessels of paper-reed, upon the face of the waters,—Go ye swift messengers Unto a nation drawn out and polished, Unto a people terrible from their beginning and onwards,—A nation most mighty and subduing, Whose land rivers have cut through.

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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