The Burden against Egypt
Isaiah 19:5
In 11 translations
- BSB
- The waters of the Nile will dry up, and the riverbed will be parched and empty.
- KJV
- And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
- WEB
- The waters will fail from the sea, and the river will be wasted and become dry.
- ASV
- And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and become dry.
- LSV
- And waters have failed from the sea, || And a river is desolated and dried up.
- YLT
- And failed have waters from the sea, And a river is wasted and dried up.
- DBY
- And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up;
- DRC
- And the water of the sea shall be dried up, and the river shall be wasted and dry.
- GNV
- Then the waters of the sea shall faile, and the riuers shall be dryed vp, and wasted.
- JPS
- And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be drained dry,
- LXXE
- And the Egyptians shall drink the water that is by the sea, but the river shall fail, and be dried up.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- וְנִשְּׁתוּ־מַ֖יִם מֵֽהַיָּ֑ם וְנָהָ֖ר יֶחֱרַ֥ב וְיָבֵֽשׁ׃
- LXX-Br
- Καὶ πίονται οἱ Αἰγύπτιοι ὕδωρ τὸ παρὰ θάλασσαν, ὁ δὲ ποταμὸς ἐκλείψει, καὶ ξηρανθήσεται.
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Cross-references most cited first
- Jeremiah 51:36Therefore 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 30:12I 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 14:18And 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 10:11They 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.
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