Verse 15

There will be no work for Egypt that head or tail, palm branch or reed, can accomplish.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 9:14-15 : 14 The elders and dignitaries are the head; the prophets who teach lies are the tail. 15 Those who guide this people mislead them, and those who are guided by them are swallowed up.
  • Hab 3:17 : 17 Though the fig tree does not blossom and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though the sheep are cut off from the fold and there are no cattle in the stalls,
  • Hag 1:11 : 11 I called for a drought on the fields and the mountains, on the grain, the new wine, the olive oil, and everything the ground produces, on people and livestock, and on all the labor of your hands.
  • 1 Thess 4:11-12 : 11 And to make it your ambition to live quietly, to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you, 12 so that you may conduct yourselves properly toward outsiders and not be dependent on anyone.
  • Ps 128:2 : 2 You will eat the fruit of your labor; you will be blessed, and it will go well with you.
  • Prov 14:23 : 23 In all hard work there is profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty.