Isaiah 19:15 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

¹⁵ Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ 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)

¹⁵ Neither shall there be for Egypt any work, which head or tail, palm-branch or rush, may do.

Common English Bible

¹⁵ Neither head nor tail, palm branch nor reed will be able to do anything for Egypt.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ 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.

Isaiah 19:15 Cross References

Psalm 128:2

For thou shalt eat the labor of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.

Proverbs 14:23

In all labor there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.

Isaiah 9:13

For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the Lord of hosts.

Habakkuk 3:17

Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:

Haggai 1:11

And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labor of the hands.