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The water in the Nile River will dry up and disappear. All the rivers will smell very bad.[a] The canals in Egypt will be dry, and the water will be gone. All the water plants will rot. All the plants along the riverbanks will die and blow away. Even the plants at the widest part of the river will dry up, blow away, and disappear.

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  1. Isaiah 19:6 smell very bad In Hebrew this is like a name for the Nile River.

The waters of the river will dry up,(A)
    and the riverbed will be parched and dry.(B)
The canals will stink;(C)
    the streams of Egypt will dwindle and dry up.(D)
The reeds(E) and rushes will wither,(F)
    also the plants(G) along the Nile,
    at the mouth of the river.
Every sown field(H) along the Nile
    will become parched, will blow away and be no more.(I)

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