Isaiah 19:6

Bible in Basic English 1965

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.

Cross References

Genesis 41:2

And out of the Nile came seven cows, good-looking and fat, and their food was the river-grass.

2 Kings 19:24

I have made water-holes and taken their waters, and with my foot I have made all the rivers of Egypt dry.

Job 8:11

Will the river-plant come up in its pride without wet earth? will the grass get tall without water?

Job 8:12

When it is still green, without being cut down, it becomes dry and dead before any other plant.

Exodus 2:3

And when she was no longer able to keep him secret, she made him a basket out of the stems of water-plants, pasting sticky earth over it to keep the water out; and placing the baby in it she put it among the plants by the edge of the Nile.

Exodus 7:18

And the fish in the Nile will come to destruction, and the river will send up a bad smell, and the Egyptians will not be able, for disgust, to make use of the water of the Nile for drinking.

Isaiah 15:6

The waters of Nimrim will become dry: for the grass is burned up, the young grass is coming to an end, every green thing is dead.

Isaiah 18:2

Which sends its representatives by the sea, even in ships of papyrus on the waters. Go back quickly, O representatives, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people causing fear through all their history; a strong nation, crushing down its haters, whose land is cut through by rivers.

Isaiah 37:25

I have made water-holes and taken their waters, and with my foot I have made all the rivers of Egypt dry.

Nahum 3:8

Are you better than No-amon, seated on the Nile streams, with waters all round her; whose wall was the sea and her earthwork the waters?