Isaiah 19:6
The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will trickle and then dry up; the bulrushes and reeds will decay,
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- Isa 37:25 : 25 I dug wells and drank water. With the soles of my feet I dried up all the rivers of Egypt.’
- Exod 2:3 : 3 But when she was no longer able to hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him and sealed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and set it among the reeds along the edge of the Nile.
- Job 8:11 : 11 Can the papyrus plant grow tall where there is no marsh? Can reeds flourish without water?
- Isa 15:6 : 6 For the waters of Nimrim are gone; the grass is dried up, the vegetation has disappeared, and there are no plants.
- Isa 18:2 : 2 that sends messengers by sea, who glide over the water’s surface in boats made of papyrus. Go, you swift messengers, to a nation of tall, smooth-skinned people, to a people that are feared far and wide, to a nation strong and victorious, whose land rivers divide.
- Exod 7:18 : 18 Fish in the Nile will die, the Nile will stink, and the Egyptians will be unable to drink water from the Nile.”’”
- 2 Kgs 19:24 : 24 I dug wells and drank water in foreign lands. With the soles of my feet I dried up all the rivers of Egypt.’
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7along with the plants by the mouth of the river. All the cultivated land near the river will turn to dust and be blown away.
8The fishermen will mourn and lament, all those who cast a fishhook into the river, and those who spread out a net on the water’s surface will grieve.
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5The water of the sea will be dried up, and the river will dry up and be empty.
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15The LORD will divide the gulf of the Egyptian Sea; he will wave his hand over the Euphrates River and send a strong wind, he will turn it into seven dried-up streams, and enable them to walk across in their sandals.
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18Fish in the Nile will die, the Nile will stink, and the Egyptians will be unable to drink water from the Nile.”’”
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11The LORD will cross the sea of storms and will calm its turbulence. The depths of the Nile will dry up, the pride of Assyria will be humbled, and the domination of Egypt will be no more.
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15I will make the trees on the mountains and hills wither up; I will dry up all their vegetation. I will turn streams into islands, and dry up pools of water.
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9The land of Egypt will become a desolate ruin. Then they will know that I am the LORD. Because he said,“The Nile is mine and I made it,”
10I am against you and your waterways. I will turn the land of Egypt into an utter desolate ruin from Migdol to Syene, as far as the border with Ethiopia.
11No human foot will pass through it, and no animal’s foot will pass through it; it will be uninhabited for forty years.
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7Who is this that rises like the Nile, like its streams turbulent at flood stage?
8Egypt rises like the Nile, like its streams turbulent at flood stage. Egypt said,‘I will arise and cover the earth. I will destroy cities and the people who inhabit them.’
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10Those who make cloth will be demoralized; all the hired workers will be depressed.
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11He and his people with him, the most terrifying of the nations, will be brought there to destroy the land. They will draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with corpses.
12I will dry up the waterways and hand the land over to evil men. I will make the land and everything in it desolate by the hand of foreigners. I, the LORD, have spoken!
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11As water disappears from the sea, or a river drains away and dries up,
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6For the waters of Nimrim are gone; the grass is dried up, the vegetation has disappeared, and there are no plants.
7For this reason what they have made and stored up, they carry over the Stream of the Poplars.
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33He turned streams into a desert, springs of water into arid land,
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12At that time the LORD will shake the tree, from the Euphrates River to the Stream of Egypt. Then you will be gathered up one by one, O Israelites.
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27who says to the deep sea,‘Be dry! I will dry up your sea currents,’
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44He turned their rivers into blood, and they could not drink from their streams.
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4He shouts a battle cry against the sea and makes it dry up; he makes all the rivers run dry. Bashan and Carmel wither; the blossom of Lebanon withers.
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15Egypt will not be able to do a thing, head or tail, shoots or stalk.
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24I dug wells and drank water in foreign lands. With the soles of my feet I dried up all the rivers of Egypt.’
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25I dug wells and drank water. With the soles of my feet I dried up all the rivers of Egypt.’
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38A drought will come upon her land; her rivers and canals will be dried up. All of this will happen because her land is filled with idols. Her people act like madmen because of those idols they fear.
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7The dry soil will become a pool of water, the parched ground springs of water. Where jackals once lived and sprawled out, grass, reeds, and papyrus will grow.
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8He said to me,“These waters go out toward the eastern region and flow down into the rift valley; when they enter the Dead Sea, where the sea is stagnant, the waters become fresh.
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6Then all those living in Egypt will know that I am the LORD because they were a reed staff for the house of Israel;
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32They will report that the fords have been captured, the reed marshes have been burned, the soldiers are terrified.
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21When the fish that were in the Nile died, the Nile began to stink, so that the Egyptians could not drink water from the Nile. There was blood everywhere in the land of Egypt!
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24All the Egyptians dug around the Nile for water to drink, because they could not drink the water of the Nile.
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15The Capital of the Northern Empire Will Be Destroyed Even though he flourishes like a reed plant, a scorching east wind will come, a wind from the LORD rising up from the desert. As a result, his spring will dry up; his well will become dry. That wind will spoil all his delightful foods in the containers in his storehouse.
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30For you will be like a tree whose leaves wither, like an orchard that is unwatered.
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8Because of this the earth will quake, and all who live in it will mourn. The whole earth will rise like the River Nile, it will surge upward and then grow calm, like the Nile in Egypt.
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6The sluice gates are opened; the royal palace is deluged and dissolves.
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5The Sovereign LORD of Heaven’s Armies will do this. He touches the earth and it dissolves; all who live on it mourn. The whole earth rises like the River Nile, and then grows calm like the Nile in Egypt.
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14Then I will make their waters calm, and will make their streams flow like olive oil, declares the Sovereign LORD.
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4Far from where people live he sinks a shaft, in places travelers have long forgotten, far from other people he dangles and sways.
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18I will make streams flow down the slopes and produce springs in the middle of the valleys. I will turn the wilderness into a pool of water and the arid land into springs.
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7They will be desolate among desolate lands, and their cities will be among ruined cities.
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2that sends messengers by sea, who glide over the water’s surface in boats made of papyrus. Go, you swift messengers, to a nation of tall, smooth-skinned people, to a people that are feared far and wide, to a nation strong and victorious, whose land rivers divide.
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12Then the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates and dried up its water to prepare the way for the kings from the east.
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20Even the wild animals cry out to you; for the river beds have dried up; fire has destroyed the pastures of the wilderness.
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19Pack your bags for exile, you inhabitants of poor dear Egypt. For Memphis will be laid waste. It will lie in ruins and be uninhabited.
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6No Escape for the Israelites This Time! Look! Even if they flee from the destruction, Egypt will take hold of them, and Memphis will bury them. The weeds will inherit the silver they treasure– thorn bushes will occupy their homes.
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36Therefore the LORD says,“I will stand up for your cause. I will pay the Babylonians back for what they have done to you. I will dry up their sea. I will make their springs run dry.