Isaiah 19:6

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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.

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

And they have turned away the flowings, || Brooks of the bulwark have been weak and dried up, || Reed and flag have withered.

YLT

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

DBY

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

DRC

And the rivers shall fail: the streams of the banks shall be diminished, and be dried up. The reed and the bulrush shall wither away.

GNV

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

JPS

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

LXXE

And the streams shall fail, and the canals of the river; and every reservoir of water shall be dried up, in every marsh also of reed and papyrus.Lit. gathering; See Gen. 1. 9. also Jer. 28. 32.

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WLC

וְהֶאֶזְנִ֣יחוּ נְהָר֔וֹת דָּלֲל֥וּ וְחָרְב֖וּ יְאֹרֵ֣י מָצ֑וֹר קָנֶ֥ה וָס֖וּף קָמֵֽלוּ׃

LXX-Br

Καὶ ἐκλείψουσιν οἱ ποταμοὶ, καὶ αἱ διώρυχες τοῦ ποταμοῦ· καὶ ξηρανθήσεται πᾶσα συναγωγὴ ὕδατος, καὶ ἐν παντὶ ἕλει καλάμου καὶ παπύρου,

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• Isaiah 37:25I have dug wells and drunk foreign waters. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”
• Job 8:11Does papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Do reeds flourish without water?
• Exodus 7:18The fish in the Nile will die, the river will stink, and the Egyptians will be unable to drink its water.’”
• 2 Kings 19:24I have dug wells and drunk foreign waters. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”
• Exodus 2:3But 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 18:2which 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…
• Isaiah 15:6The waters of Nimrim are dried up, and the grass is withered; the vegetation is gone, and the greenery is no more.

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