Isaiah 19:6

New English Translation

The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will trickle and then dry up; the bulrushes and reeds will decay,

Cross References

Genesis 41:2

seven fine-looking, fat cows were coming up out of the Nile, and they grazed in the reeds.

2 Kings 19:24

I dug wells and drank water in foreign lands. With the soles of my feet I dried up all the rivers of Egypt.’

Job 8:11

Can the papyrus plant grow tall where there is no marsh? Can reeds flourish without water?

Job 8:12

While they are still beginning to flower and not ripe for cutting, they can wither away faster than any grass!

Exodus 2:3

But when she was no longer able to hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him and sealed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and set it among the reeds along the edge of the Nile.

Exodus 7:18

Fish in the Nile will die, the Nile will stink, and the Egyptians will be unable to drink water from the Nile.”’”

Isaiah 15:6

For the waters of Nimrim are gone; the grass is dried up, the vegetation has disappeared, and there are no plants.

Isaiah 18:2

that sends messengers by sea, who glide over the water’s surface in boats made of papyrus. Go, you swift messengers, to a nation of tall, smooth-skinned people, to a people that are feared far and wide, to a nation strong and victorious, whose land rivers divide.

Isaiah 37:25

I dug wells and drank water. With the soles of my feet I dried up all the rivers of Egypt.’

Nahum 3:8

You are no more secure than Thebes – she was located on the banks of the Nile; the waters surrounded her, herrampart was the sea, the water was her wall.