Parallel Verses
Amplified
The canals will become foul-smelling,
The streams of Egypt will thin out and dry up,
The reeds and the rushes will rot away.
New American Standard Bible
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.
Holman Bible
they will dwindle, and Egypt’s canals will be parched.
Reed and rush will die.
International Standard Version
The canals will stink, and the tributaries of Egypt will dwindle and dry up. Reeds and rushes will wither away.
A Conservative Version
And the rivers shall become foul. The streams of Egypt shall be diminished and dried up. The reeds and flags shall wither away.
American Standard Version
And the rivers shall become foul; the streams of Egypt shall be diminished and dried up; the reeds and flags shall wither away.
Bible in Basic English
And the rivers will have an evil smell; the stream of Egypt will become small and dry: all the water-plants will come to nothing.
Darby Translation
and the rivers shall stink, and the streams of Egypt shall be diminished and drain away: the reeds and sedges shall wither.
Julia Smith Translation
They cast away the rivers; the rivers of Egypt languished and dried up; the reed and the sedge pined away.
King James 2000
And they shall turn the rivers foul; and the brooks of Egypt shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and rushes shall wither.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And [the] rivers will become foul-smelling; the branches of the Nile of Egypt will become little and dry up; reed and rush will wither.
Modern King James verseion
And rivers shall be fouled; the Nile of Egypt will languish and dry up; the reed and the rush shall decay.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The rivers also shall be drawn out, the wells shall decrease and dry away.
NET Bible
The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will trickle and then dry up; the bulrushes and reeds will decay,
New Heart English Bible
The rivers will become foul. The streams of Egypt will be diminished and dried up. The reeds and flags will wither away.
The Emphasized Bible
And rivers, shall stink, The canals of Egypt be shallow and waste, Reed and rush, he withered;
Webster
And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defense shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.
World English Bible
The rivers will become foul. The streams of Egypt will be diminished and dried up. The reeds and flags will wither away.
Youngs Literal Translation
And they have turned away the flowings, Weak and dried up have been brooks of the bulwark, Reed and flag have withered.
Themes
Brooks » Afforded protection to a country
Egypt » Prophecies respecting » Failure of internal resources
Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Reeds
River Nile » The egyptians » Punished by failure of its waters
Interlinear
Zanach
Dalal
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 19:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Oracle Of Judgment On Egypt
5
The waters from the sea will dry up,
And the river will be parched and dry.
The canals will become foul-smelling,
The streams of Egypt will thin out and dry up,
The reeds and the rushes will rot away.
The meadows by the Nile, by the edge of the Nile,
And all the sown fields of the Nile
Will become dry, be blown away, and be no more.
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 37:25
‘I dug wells and drank [foreign] waters,
And with the sole of my feet I dried up
All the canals [of the Nile] of Egypt.’
Exodus 2:3
When she could no longer hide him, she got him a basket (chest) made of papyrus reeds and covered it with tar and pitch [making it waterproof]. Then she put the child in it and set it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile.
Job 8:11
“Can the papyrus grow up without a marsh?
Can the rushes or reed grass grow without water?
Exodus 7:18
The fish in the Nile will die, and the Nile will become foul, and the Egyptians will not be able to drink water from the Nile.”’”
2 Kings 19:24
“I dug wells and drank foreign waters,
And with the sole of my feet I dried up
All the rivers of [the Lower Nile of] Egypt.”
Isaiah 15:6
For the waters of Nimrim are desolate.
Indeed the grass is withered, the new growth dies;
There is no green thing.
Isaiah 18:2
Which sends ambassadors by the sea,
Even in vessels of papyrus on the surface of the waters.
Go, swift messengers, to a nation [of people] tall and smooth (clean shaven),
To a people feared far and wide,
A powerful and oppressive nation
Whose land the rivers divide.