Isaiah 19:6 The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will dwindle and dry up. The reeds and rushes will wither,

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will dwindle and dry up. The reeds and rushes will wither,

English Standard Version
and its canals will become foul, and the branches of Egypt’s Nile will diminish and dry up, reeds and rushes will rot away.

New American Standard Bible
The canals will emit a stench, The streams of Egypt will thin out and dry up; The reeds and rushes will rot away.

King James Bible
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The channels will stink; they will dwindle, and Egypt's canals will be parched. Reed and rush will die.

International Standard Version
The canals will stink, and the tributaries of Egypt will dwindle and dry up. Reeds and rushes 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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Darby Bible 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.

Cross References

Genesis 41:2
And, behold, there came up out of the river seven well favored cows and fat; and they fed in a meadow.

Exodus 2:3
And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.

Exodus 7:18
And the fish that is in the river shall die, and the river shall stink; and the Egyptians shall loathe to drink of the water of the river.

2 Kings 19:24
I have dig and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.

Job 8:11
Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?

Isaiah 15:6
For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass fails, there is no green thing.

Isaiah 37:25
I have dig, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.

Nahum 3:8
Are you better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea?

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

19:1-17 God shall come into Egypt with his judgments. He will raise up the causes of their destruction from among themselves. When ungodly men escape danger, they are apt to think themselves secure; but evil pursues sinners, and will speedily overtake them, except they repent. The Egyptians will be given over into the hand of one who shall rule them with rigour, as was shortly after fulfilled. The Egyptians were renowned for wisdom and science; yet the Lord would give them up to their own perverse schemes, and to quarrel, till their land would be brought by their contests to become an object of contempt and pity. He renders sinners afraid of those whom they have despised and oppressed; and the Lord of hosts will make the workers of iniquity a terror to themselves, and to each other; and every object around a terror to them.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

6. they shall turn the rivers—rather, "the streams shall become putrid"; that is, the artificial streams made for irrigation shall become stagnant and offensive when the waters fail [Maurer]. Horsley, with the Septuagint, translates, "And waters from the sea shall be drunk"; by the failure of the river water they shall be reduced to sea water.

brooks of defence—rather, "canals of Egypt"; "canals," literally, "Niles," Nile canals, the plural of the Egyptian term for the great river. The same Hebrew word, Matzor, whence comes Mitzraim, expresses Egypt, and a place of "defense." Horsley, as English Version translates it, "embanked canals,"

reeds … flags—the papyrus. "Reed and rush"; utter withering.