Isaiah 19:6

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Its streams will stink, Egypt will have no water, and the reeds and tall grass will dry up.

Cross References

Genesis 41:2

Suddenly, seven fat, healthy cows came up from the river and started eating grass along the bank.

2 Kings 19:24

I dried up every stream in the land of Egypt, and I drank water from wells I had dug.”

Job 8:11

Papyrus reeds grow healthy only in a swamp,

Job 8:12

and if the water dries up, they die sooner than grass.

Exodus 2:3

But when she could no longer keep him hidden, she made a basket out of reeds and covered it with tar. She put him in the basket and placed it in the tall grass along the edge of the River Nile.

Exodus 7:18

The fish will die, the river will stink, and none of you Egyptians will be able to drink the water.”

Isaiah 15:6

The streams of Nimrim and the grasslands have dried up. Every plant is parched.

Isaiah 18:2

Egypt sends messengers up the River Nile on ships made of reeds. Send them fast to Ethiopia, whose people are tall and have smooth skin. Their land is divided by rivers; they are strong and brutal, feared all over the world.

Isaiah 37:25

I dried up every stream in the land of Egypt, and I drank water from wells I had dug.”

Nahum 3:8

Nineveh, do you feel safer than the city of Thebes? The River Nile was its wall of defence.