Isaiah 19:15 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Neither head nor tail, palm branch or reed, will be able to do anything for Egypt.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Neither can any work [done singly or by concerted action] accomplish anything for Egypt, whether by head or tail, palm branch or rush [high or low].

American Standard Version (1901)

Neither shall there be for Egypt any work, which head or tail, palm-branch or rush, may do.

Common English Bible

Neither head nor tail, palm branch nor reed will be able to do anything for Egypt.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And there will be no work for Egypt that would produce a head or a tail, one who bows down or one who refrains from bowing down.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And there shall be no work for Egypt, to make head or tail, him that bendeth down, or that holdeth back.

Isaiah 19:15 Cross References

Psalm 128:2

You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be happy, and it shall go well with you.

Proverbs 14:23

In all toil there is profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty.

Isaiah 9:13

The people did not turn to him who struck them or seek the Lord of hosts.

Habakkuk 3:17

Though the fig tree does not blossom and no fruit is on the vines; though the produce of the olive fails and the fields yield no food; though the flock is cut off from the fold and there is no herd in the stalls,

Haggai 1:11

And I have called for a drought on the land and the hills, on the grain, the new wine, the oil, on what the soil produces, on humans and animals, and on all their labors.”