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

¹⁵ 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

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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁵ 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.”