Isaiah 19:6

Modern English Version

The canals shall emit a stench; the streams of Egypt shall diminish and dry up; the reeds and rushes shall wither.

Cross References

Genesis 41:2

And behold, there came up out of the Nile seven cows, fine looking and fat, and they grazed in the meadow.

2 Kings 19:24

I have dug wells and drunk foreign waters, and I dried up with the sole of my foot all the streams of Egypt.’

Job 8:11

Can the papyrus grow up without a marsh? Can the reed grow without water?

Job 8:12

While it is yet green and not cut down, it withers before any other plant.

Exodus 2:3

When she could no longer hide him, she got a papyrus basket for him, and daubed it with tar and pitch. She then put the child in it and set it in the reeds by the river’s bank.

Exodus 7:18

And the fish that are in the river shall die, and the river shall stink so that the Egyptians shall be weary of drinking the river’s water.” ’ ”

Isaiah 15:6

for the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate; surely the grass is withered away; the grass fails, there is no green thing.

Isaiah 18:2

which sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of reeds on the waters, saying, “Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people feared far and wide, a nation strong and oppressive, whose land the rivers have divided.”

Isaiah 37:25

I have dug wells and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet I have dried up all the rivers of Egypt.’

Nahum 3:8

Are you better than Thebes that sat by the Nile, with water around her, whose rampart was the sea, and whose wall was the water?