Isaiah 19:6
And they have turned away the flowings, Weak and dried up have been brooks of the bulwark, Reed and flag have withered.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
5And failed have waters from the sea, And a river is wasted and dried up.
Cross References
Exodus 2:3and she hath not been able any more to hide him, and she taketh for him an ark of rushes, and daubeth it with bitumen and with pitch, and putteth the lad in it, and putteth [it] in the weeds by the edge of the River;
2 Kings 19:24I have digged, and drunk strange waters, And I dry up with the sole of my steps All floods of a bulwark.
Job 8:12While it [is] in its budding — uncropped, Even before any herb it withereth.
Isaiah 18:2That is sending by sea ambassadors, Even with implements of reed on the face of the waters, — Go, ye light messengers, Unto a nation drawn out and peeled, Unto a people fearful from its beginning and onwards, A nation meeting out by line, and treading down, Whose land floods 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 →