Isaiah 19:6

The canals will emit a stench,
The streams of Egypt will thin out and dry up;
The reeds and rushes will rot away.

Isaiah 37:25

‘I dug wells and drank waters,
And with the sole of my feet I dried up
All the rivers of Egypt.’

Exodus 2:3

But when she could hide him no longer, she got him a wicker basket and covered it over with tar and pitch. Then she put the child into 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 grow without water?

Exodus 7:18

The fish that are in the Nile will die, and the Nile will become foul, and the Egyptians will find difficulty in drinking 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 Egypt.”

Isaiah 15:6

For the waters of Nimrim are desolate.
Surely the grass is withered, the tender grass died out,
There is no green thing.

Which sends envoys by the sea,
Even in papyrus vessels on the surface of the waters.
Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth,
To a people feared far and wide,
A powerful and oppressive nation
Whose land the rivers divide.

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Summary

Isaiah 19:6

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.

And the

Isaiah 37:25

2 Kings 19:24

The reeds

Isaiah 18:2

Exodus 2:3

Job 8:11

Bible References

And the

‘I dug wells and drank waters,
And with the sole of my feet I dried up
All the rivers of Egypt.’

“I dug wells and drank foreign waters,
And with the sole of my feet I

dried up

All the rivers of Egypt.”

The reeds

Which sends envoys by the sea,
Even in papyrus vessels on the surface of the waters.
Go, swift messengers, to a nation

tall and smooth,

To a people feared far and wide,
A powerful and oppressive nation
Whose land the rivers divide.

But when she could hide him no longer, she got him a

wicker basket and covered it over with tar and pitch. Then she put the child into it and set it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile.

“Can the papyrus grow up without a marsh?
Can the rushes grow without water?