Isaiah 19:15
New International Version
There is nothing Egypt can do— head or tail, palm branch or reed.

New Living Translation
There is nothing Egypt can do. All are helpless— the head and the tail, the noble palm branch and the lowly reed.

English Standard Version
And there will be nothing for Egypt that head or tail, palm branch or reed, may do.

Berean Standard Bible
There is nothing Egypt can do—head or tail, palm or reed.

King James Bible
Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.

New King James Version
Neither will there be any work for Egypt, Which the head or tail, Palm branch or bulrush, may do.

New American Standard Bible
There will be no work for Egypt Which its head or tail, its palm branch or bulrush, may do.

NASB 1995
There will be no work for Egypt Which its head or tail, its palm branch or bulrush, may do.

NASB 1977
And there will be no work for Egypt Which its head or tail, its palm branch or bulrush, may do.

Legacy Standard Bible
There will be no work for Egypt Which its head or tail, its palm branch or bulrush, may do.

Amplified Bible
There will be no work for Egypt Which head or tail, [high] palm branch or [low] bulrush, may do.

Christian Standard Bible
No head or tail, palm or reed, will be able to do anything for Egypt.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
No head or tail, palm or reed, will be able to do anything for Egypt.

American Standard Version
Neither shall there be for Egypt any work, which head or tail, palm-branch or rush, may do.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And the Egyptian shall not have a man who will make head or tail or tail or head

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And there shall be no work to the Egyptians, which shall make head or tail, or beginning or end.

Contemporary English Version
No one in Egypt can do a thing, no matter who they are.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And there shall be no work for Egypt, to make head or tail, him that bendeth down, or that holdeth back.

English Revised Version
Neither shall there be for Egypt any work, which head or tail, palm branch or rush, may do.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
No one-leaders or followers, important or unimportant- can do anything for Egypt.

Good News Translation
No one in Egypt, rich or poor, important or unknown, can offer help.

International Standard Version
As a result, there will be nothing for Egypt that head or tail, palm branch or reed, can do.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Neither shall there be for Egypt any work, Which head or tail, palm-branch or rush, may do.

Literal Standard Version
And there is no work to Egypt, | That head or tail, branch or reed, may do.

Majority Standard Bible
There is nothing Egypt can do—head or tail, palm or reed.

New American Bible
Egypt shall accomplish nothing— neither head nor tail, palm branch nor reed, shall accomplish anything.

NET Bible
Egypt will not be able to do a thing, head or tail, shoots and stalk.

New Revised Standard Version
Neither head nor tail, palm branch or reed, will be able to do anything for Egypt.

New Heart English Bible
Neither shall there be for Egypt any work, which head or tail, palm branch or rush, may do.

Webster's Bible Translation
Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may perform.

World English Bible
Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which head or tail, palm branch or rush, may do.

Young's Literal Translation
And there is no work to Egypt, That head or tail, branch or reed, may do.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
An Oracle Concerning Egypt
14The LORD has poured into her a spirit of confusion. Egypt has been led astray in all she does, as a drunkard staggers through his own vomit. 15There is nothing Egypt can do— head or tail, palm or reed.

Cross References
Isaiah 9:14
So the LORD will cut off Israel's head and tail, both palm branch and reed in a single day.

Isaiah 9:15
The head is the elder and honorable man, and the tail is the prophet who teaches lies.


Treasury of Scripture

Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.

Isaiah 9:14,15
Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day…

Psalm 128:2
For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.

Proverbs 14:23
In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.

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Isaiah 19
1. The confusion of Egypt
11. The foolishness of their princes
18. The calling of Egypt into the church
23. The covenant of Egypt, Assyria, and Israel














(15) The head or tail, branch or rush.--For this figurative description of all classes of the people, see Note on Isaiah 9:14.

Verse 15. - Neither shall there be, etc. Translate, And there shall be for Egypt no work in which both the head and the tail, both the palm branch and the rush, may (conjointly) work. The general spirit of perverseness shall prevent all union of high with low, rich with poor.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
There is
יִהְיֶ֥ה (yih·yeh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

nothing
וְלֹֽא־ (wə·lō-)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

Egypt
לְמִצְרַ֖יִם (lə·miṣ·ra·yim)
Preposition-l | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 4714: Egypt -- a son of Ham, also his descendants and their country in Northwest Africa

can do—
יַעֲשֶׂ֛ה (ya·‘ă·śeh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6213: To do, make

head
רֹ֥אשׁ (rōš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7218: The head

or tail,
וְזָנָ֖ב (wə·zā·nāḇ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2180: Tail, end, stump

palm
כִּפָּ֥ה (kip·pāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 3712: A branch, frond (of a palm tree)

or reed.
וְאַגְמֽוֹן׃ (wə·’aḡ·mō·wn)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 100: A bulrush, a rope of bulrushes


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