Isaiah 19:6

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

its canals will become foul, and the branches of Egypt’s Nile will diminish and dry up. Reeds and rushes will rot away,

Cross References

Genesis 41:2

and there came up out of the Nile seven sleek and fat cows, and they grazed in the reed grass.

2 Kings 19:24

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

Job 8:11

“Can papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Can reeds flourish where there is no water?

Job 8:12

While yet in flower and not cut down, they wither before any other plant.

Exodus 2:3

When she could hide him no longer she got a papyrus basket for him and plastered it with bitumen and pitch; she put the child in it and placed it among the reeds on the bank of the river.

Exodus 7:18

The fish in the river shall die, the river itself shall stink, and the Egyptians shall be unable to drink water from the Nile.’ ”

Isaiah 15:6

the waters of Nimrim are a desolation; the grass is withered; the new growth fails; vegetation is no more.

Isaiah 18:2

sending ambassadors by the Nile in vessels of papyrus on the waters! Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide.

Isaiah 37:25

I dug wells and drank waters; I dried up with the sole of my foot all the streams of Egypt.’

Nahum 3:8

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