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Isaiah 19:6

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.

World English Bible

The rivers will become foul. The streams of Egypt will be diminished and dried up. The reeds and flags will wither away.

American Standard Version

And the rivers shall become foul; the streams of Egypt shall be diminished and dried up; the reeds and flags shall wither away.

Geneva Bible 1599

And the riuers shall goe farre away: the riuers of defence shalbe emptied and dryed vp: the reedes and flagges shall be cut downe.

Darby Translation

and the rivers shall stink, and the streams of Egypt shall be diminished and drain away: the reeds and sedges shall wither.

Young's Literal Translation

And they have turned away the flowings, Weak and dried up have been brooks of the bulwark, Reed and flag have withered.

Bible in Basic English

And the rivers will have an evil smell; the stream of Egypt will become small and dry: all the water-plants will come to nothing.

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Cross references

“and the”

Isaiah 37:25 2 Kings 19:24

Isaiah 37:25 · BSB

I have dug wells and drunk foreign waters. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”

2 Kings 19:24 · BSB

I have dug wells and drunk foreign waters. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”

“the reeds”

Job 8:11 Exodus 2:3 Isaiah 18:2

Job 8:11 · BSB

Does papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Do reeds flourish without water?

Exodus 2:3 · BSB

But when she could no longer hide him, she got him a papyrus basket and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in the basket and set it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.

Isaiah 18:2 · BSB

which sends couriers by sea, in papyrus vessels on the waters. Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people widely feared, to a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers…

Also

Exodus 7:18 Isaiah 15:6

Exodus 7:18 · BSB

The fish in the Nile will die, the river will stink, and the Egyptians will be unable to drink its water.’”

Isaiah 15:6 · BSB

The waters of Nimrim are dried up, and the grass is withered; the vegetation is gone, and the greenery is no more.

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

In context

5The waters of the Nile will dry up, and the riverbed will be parched and empty.

7The bulrushes by the Nile, by the mouth of the river, and all the fields sown along the Nile, will wither, blow away, and be no more.

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