Isaiah 19:15 “There is nothing Egypt can do— head or tail, palm or reed.”

Isaiah 19:15

There is nothing Egypt can do— head or tail, palm or reed.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.

World English Bible

Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which head or tail, palm branch or rush, may do.

American Standard Version

Neither shall there be for Egypt any work, which head or tail, palm-branch or rush, may do.

Geneva Bible 1599

Neither shall there be any worke in Egypt, which the head may doe, nor the tayle, ye branch nor the rush.

Darby Translation

Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, palm-branch or rush, may do.

Young's Literal Translation

And there is no work to Egypt, That head or tail, branch or reed, may do.

Bible in Basic English

And in Egypt there will be no work for any man, head or tail, high or low, to do.

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Cross references

“Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.”

Psalm 128:2 Proverbs 14:23 Habakkuk 3:17 Haggai 1:11 Isaiah 9:14 Isaiah 9:15

Psalm 128:2 · BSB

For when you eat the fruit of your labor, blessings and prosperity will be yours.

Proverbs 14:23 · BSB

There is profit in all labor, but mere talk leads only to poverty.

Habakkuk 3:17 · BSB

Though the fig tree does not bud and no fruit is on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though the sheep are cut off from the fold and no cattle are in the stalls,

Haggai 1:11 · BSB

I have summoned a drought on the fields and on the mountains, on the grain, new wine, and oil, and on whatever the ground yields, on man and beast, and on all the labor of your hands.”

Isaiah 9:14 · BSB

So the LORD will cut off Israel’s head and tail, both palm branch and reed in a single day.

Isaiah 9:15 · BSB

The head is the elder and honorable man, and the tail is the prophet who teaches lies.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

14The LORD has poured into her a spirit of confusion. Egypt has been led astray in all she does, as a drunkard staggers through his own vomit.

16In that day the Egyptians will be like women. They will tremble with fear beneath the uplifted hand of the LORD of Hosts, when He brandishes it against them.

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