Isaiah 19:5 “The waters of the Nile will dry up, and the riverbed will be parched a…”

Isaiah 19:5

The waters of the Nile will dry up, and the riverbed will be parched and empty.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.

World English Bible

The waters will fail from the sea, and the river will be wasted and become dry.

American Standard Version

And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and become dry.

Geneva Bible 1599

Then the waters of the sea shall faile, and the riuers shall be dryed vp, and wasted.

Darby Translation

And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up;

Young's Literal Translation

And failed have waters from the sea, And a river is wasted and dried up.

Bible in Basic English

And the waters of the sea will be cut off, and the river will become dry and waste:

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Cross references

“And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.”

Jeremiah 51:36 Ezekiel 30:12 Zechariah 14:18 Zechariah 10:11

Jeremiah 51:36 · BSB

Therefore this is what the LORD says: “Behold, I will plead your case and take vengeance on your behalf; I will dry up her sea and make her springs run dry.

Ezekiel 30:12 · BSB

I will make the streams dry up and sell the land to the wicked. By the hands of foreigners I will bring desolation upon the land and everything in it. I, the LORD, have spoken.

Zechariah 14:18 · BSB

And if the people of Egypt will not go up and enter in, then the rain will not fall on them; this will be the plague with which the LORD strikes the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.

Zechariah 10:11 · BSB

They will pass through the sea of distress and strike the waves of the sea; all the depths of the Nile will dry up. The pride of Assyria will be brought down, and the scepter of Egypt will depart.

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

In context

4I will deliver the Egyptians into the hands of a harsh master, and a fierce king will rule over them,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.

6The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will trickle and dry up; the reeds and rushes will wither.

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