Isaiah 19:15

Geneva Bible (1560)

Neither shall there be any worke in Egypt, which the head may doe, nor the tayle, ye branch nor the rush.

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  • Isa 9:14-15 : 14 Therefore will the Lord cut off from Israel head and taile, branche and rush in one day. 15 The ancient and the honorable man, he is the head: and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the taile.
  • Hab 3:17 : 17 For the figtree shall not flourish, neither shall fruite be in the vines: the labour of the oliue shall faile, and the fieldes shall yeelde no meate: the sheepe shalbe cut off from the folde, and there shalbe no bullocke in the stalles.
  • Hag 1:11 : 11 And I called for a drought vpon the land, and vpon the mountaines, & vpon the corne, and vpon the wine, and vpon the oyle, vpon all that the ground bringeth foorth: both vpon men and vpon cattell, and vpon all the labour of the hands.
  • 1 Thess 4:11-12 : 11 And that ye studie to be quiet, & to meddle with your owne busines, and to worke with your owne handes, as we commaunded you, 12 That yee may behaue your selues honestly towarde them that are without, and that nothing be lacking vnto you.
  • Ps 128:2 : 2 When thou eatest the labours of thine hands, thou shalt be blessed, and it shall be well with thee.
  • Prov 14:23 : 23 In all labour there is abundance: but the talke of the lippes bringeth onely want.

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  • Isa 19:13-14
    2 verses
    79%

    13The princes of Zoan are become fooles: the princes of Noph are deceiued, they haue deceiued Egypt, euen the corners of the tribes thereof.

    14The Lorde hath mingled among them the spirite of errours: and they haue caused Egypt to erre in euery worke thereof, as a drunken man erreth in his vomite.

  • Isa 19:16-19
    4 verses
    78%

    16In that day shall Egypt be like vnto women: for it shall be afraide and feare because of the moouing of the hand of the Lorde of hostes, which he shaketh ouer it.

    17And the land of Iudah shall be a feare vnto Egypt: euery one that maketh mention of it, shalbe afraid thereat, because of ye counsell of the Lord of hostes, which he hath determined vpon it.

    18In that day shall fiue cities in the lande of Egypt speake the language of Canaan, and shall sweare by the Lord of hostes. one shall be called the citie of destruction.

    19In that day shall the altar of the Lorde be in the middes of the land of Egypt, and a pillar by the border thereof vnto the Lord.

  • Isa 9:14-15
    2 verses
    75%

    14Therefore will the Lord cut off from Israel head and taile, branche and rush in one day.

    15The ancient and the honorable man, he is the head: and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the taile.

  • Ezek 29:6
    73%

    6And al the inhabitants of Egypt shal know that I am the Lord, because they haue ben a staffe of reede to the house of Israel.

  • Isa 19:1-7
    7 verses
    73%

    1The burden of Egypt. Beholde, the Lord rideth vpon a swift cloude, and shall come into Egypt, and the idoles of Egypt shall be moued at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the middes of her.

    2And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: so euery one shall fight against his brother, and euery one against his neighbour, citie against citie, and kingdome against kingdome.

    3And the spirite of Egypt shall faile in the middes of her, and I will destroy their counsell, and they shall seeke at the idoles, and at the sorcerers, and at them that haue spirits of diuination, and at the southsayers.

    4And I will deliuer the Egyptians into the hand of the cruell Lordes, & a mightie King shall rule ouer them, sayth the Lord God of hostes.

    5Then the waters of the sea shall faile, and the riuers shall be dryed vp, and wasted.

    6And the riuers shall goe farre away: the riuers of defence shalbe emptied and dryed vp: the reedes and flagges shall be cut downe.

    7The grasse in the riuer, and at the head of the riuers, and all that groweth by the riuer, shall wither, and be driuen away, and be no more.

  • Isa 11:15
    72%

    15The Lorde also shall vtterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptians sea, and with his mightie winde shall lift vp his hand ouer the riuer, and shall smite him in his seuen streames, and cause men to walke therein with shooes.

  • Isa 30:7
    72%

    7For the Egyptians are vanitie, & they shall helpe in vaine. Therefore haue I cried vnto her, Their strength is to sit still.

  • Ezek 29:9-12
    4 verses
    72%

    9And the land of Egypt shalbe desolate, and waste, & they shal know that I am ye Lord: because he hath said, The riuer is mine, & I haue made it,

    10Behold, therefore I come vpon thee, and vpon thy riuers, & I will make the land of Egypt vtterly waste and desolate from the towre of Seueneh, euen vnto the borders of the blacke Mores.

    11No foote of man shall passe by it, nor foote of beast shall passe by it, neither shall it be inhabited fourtie yeeres.

    12And I wil make the land of Egypt desolate in the middes of the countries, that are desolate, and her cities shall be desolate among the cities that are desolate, for fourtie yeeres: and I wil scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and wil disperse them through the countreis.

  • Ezek 30:13
    71%

    13Thus saith the Lord God, I will also destroy the idoles, and I will cause their idoles to cease out of Noph, and there shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt, and I will send a feare in the land of Egypt.

  • Zech 10:11
    71%

    11And he shall goe into the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waues in the sea, and all the depthes of the riuer shall drye vp: and the pride of Asshur shall be cast downe, and the scepter of Egypt shall depart away.

  • Isa 19:23
    71%

    23In that day shall there be a path from Egypt to Asshur, and Asshur shall come into Egypt, and Egypt into Asshur: so the Egyptians shall worship with Asshur.

  • Isa 19:10
    70%

    10For their nettes shalbe broken, and all they, that make pondes, shalbe heauie in heart.

  • Isa 27:12
    70%

    12And in that day shall the Lord thresh from the chanell of the Riuer vnto the riuer of Egypt, and ye shalbe gathered, one by one, O children of Israel.

  • Isa 30:2-3
    2 verses
    70%

    2Which walke forth to goe downe into Egypt (and haue not asked at my mouth) to strengthen them selues with the strength of Pharaoh, and trust in the shadowe of Egypt.

    3But the strength of Pharaoh shalbe your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.

  • Jer 42:17-18
    2 verses
    70%

    17And all the men that set their faces to enter into Egypt to dwell there, shall die by ye sword, by the famine and by the pestilence, and none of them shall remaine nor escape from the plague, that I will bring vpon them.

    18For thus saith the Lorde of hostes the God of Israel, As mine anger and my wrath hath bene powred foorth vpon the inhabitants of Ierusalem: so shall my wrath be powred foorth vpon you, when ye shall enter into Egypt, and ye shall be a detestation, and an astonishment, and a curse and a reproche, & ye shall see this place no more.

  • 2 Kgs 18:21
    70%

    21Lo, thou trustest now in this broken staffe of reede, to wit, on Egypt, on which if a man leane, it will goe into his hand, & pearce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt vnto all that trust on him.

  • Ezek 32:15
    69%

    15When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and the countrey with all that is therein, shall be laid waste: when I shall smite all them which dwell therein, then shall they know that I am ye Lord.

  • Ezek 30:10
    69%

    10Thus sayth the Lord God, I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchad-nezzar King of Babel.

  • Isa 36:6
    69%

    6Loe, thou trustest in this broken staffe of reede on Egypt, whereupon if a man leane, it will goe into his hand, and pearce it: so is Pharaoh King of Egypt, vnto all that trust in him.

  • Exod 5:11-12
    2 verses
    69%

    11Goe your selues, get you strawe where yee can finde it, yet shall nothing of your labour bee diminished.

    12Then were the people scattered abroade throughout all the land of Egypt, for to gather stubble in steade of strawe.

  • Isa 31:3
    69%

    3Now the Egyptians are men, and not God, and their horses flesh and not spirite: and when the Lorde shall stretch out his hand, the helper shall fall, and hee that is holpen shal fall, and they shall altogether faile.

  • Jer 46:19-20
    2 verses
    69%

    19O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, make thee geare to goe into captiuitie: for Noph shall be waste and desolate, without an inhabitant.

    20Egypt is like a faire calfe, but destruction commeth: out of the North it commeth.

  • Ezek 30:18-19
    2 verses
    69%

    18At Tehaphnehes the day shall restraine his light, when I shall breake there the barres of Egypt: and when the pompe of her power shall cease in her, the cloude shall couer her, and her daughters shall goe into captiuitie.

    19Thus will I execute iudgements in Egypt, and they shall knowe that I am the Lord.

  • Ezek 30:4
    69%

    4And the sword shall come vpon Egypt, and feare shall be in Ethiopia, when the slaine shall fall in Egypt, when they shall take away her multitude, and when her foundations shall be broken downe.

  • Ezek 17:17
    69%

    17Neither shall Pharaoh with his mightie hoste, and great multitude of people, mainteine him in the warre, when they haue cast vp mounts, and builded ramparts to destroy many persons.

  • Isa 19:25
    69%

    25For the Lorde of hostes shall blesse it, saying, Blessed be my people Egypt and Asshur, the worke of mine hands, and Israel mine inheritance.

  • Jer 46:8
    69%

    8Egypt riseth vp like the flood, & his waters are mooued like the riuers, and he sayth, I wil goe vp, and will couer the earth: I wil destroy the citie with them that dwell therein.

  • Ezek 29:14
    68%

    14And I wil bring againe the captiuitie of Egypt, and will cause them to returne into the land of Pathros, into the lande of their habitation, and they shalbe there a small kingdome.

  • Ezek 30:22
    68%

    22Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I come against Pharaoh King of Egypt, and will breake his arme, that was strong, but is broken, and I will cause the sworde to fall out of his hande.

  • Ezek 30:16
    68%

    16And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall haue great sorowe and No shalbe destroyed, and Noph shall haue sorowes dayly.

  • Zech 14:19
    68%

    19This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations that come not vp to keepe the feast of Tabernacles.