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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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  • 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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