Isaiah 19:5-7
Easy-to-Read Version
5 The water in the Nile River will dry up and disappear. 6 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. 7 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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- Isaiah 19:6 smell very bad In Hebrew this is like a name for the Nile River.
Isaiah 19:5-7
New International Version
5 The waters of the river will dry up,(A)
and the riverbed will be parched and dry.(B)
6 The canals will stink;(C)
the streams of Egypt will dwindle and dry up.(D)
The reeds(E) and rushes will wither,(F)
7 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)
Isaiah 19:5-7
King James Version
5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
6 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.
7 The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.
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