Isaiah 19:6

World English Bible (2000)

The rivers will become foul. The streams of Egypt will be diminished and dried up. The reeds and flags will wither away.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 37:25 : 25 I have dug and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt."
  • Exod 2:3 : 3 When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river's bank.
  • Job 8:11 : 11 "Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without water?
  • Isa 15:6 : 6 For the waters of Nimrim will be desolate; for the grass has withered away, the tender grass fails, there is no green thing.
  • Isa 18:2 : 2 that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus on the waters, saying, "Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide!"
  • Exod 7:18 : 18 The fish that are in the river shall die, and the river shall become foul; and the Egyptians shall loathe to drink water from the river."'"
  • 2 Kgs 19:24 : 24 I have dug and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Isa 19:7-8
    2 verses
    91%

    7The meadows by the Nile, by the brink of the Nile, and all the sown fields of the Nile, will become dry, be driven away, and be no more.

    8The fishermen will lament, and all those who fish in the Nile will mourn, and those who spread nets on the waters will languish.

  • 5The waters will fail from the sea, and the river will be wasted and become dry.

  • 15Yahweh will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his scorching wind he will wave his hand over the River, and will split it into seven streams, and cause men to march over in sandals.

  • 18The fish that are in the river shall die, and the river shall become foul; and the Egyptians shall loathe to drink water from the river."'"

  • 11He will pass through the sea of affliction, and will strike the waves in the sea, and all the depths of the Nile will dry up; and the pride of Assyria will be brought down, and the scepter of Egypt will depart.

  • 15I will destroy mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs. I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools.

  • Ezek 29:9-11
    3 verses
    76%

    9The land of Egypt shall be a desolation and a waste; and they shall know that I am Yahweh. Because he has said, 'The river is mine, and I have made it;'

    10therefore, behold, I am against you, and against your rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from the tower of Seveneh even to the border of Ethiopia.

    11No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of animal shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.

  • Jer 46:7-8
    2 verses
    76%

    7Who is this who rises up like the Nile, whose waters toss themselves like the rivers?

    8Egypt rises up like the Nile, and his waters toss themselves like the rivers: and he says, I will rise up, I will cover the earth; I will destroy cities and its inhabitants.

  • 10The pillars will be broken in pieces. All those who work for hire will be grieved in soul.

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    11He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought in to destroy the land; and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.

    12I will make the rivers dry, and will sell the land into the hand of evil men; and I will make the land desolate, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I, Yahweh, have spoken it.

  • 11As the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes and dries up,

  • Isa 15:6-7
    2 verses
    75%

    6For the waters of Nimrim will be desolate; for the grass has withered away, the tender grass fails, there is no green thing.

    7Therefore they will carry away the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have stored up, over the brook of the willows.

  • 33He turns rivers into a desert, water springs into a thirsty ground,

  • 12It will happen in that day, that Yahweh will thresh from the flowing stream of the Euphrates to the brook of Egypt; and you will be gathered one by one, children of Israel.

  • 27who says to the deep, 'Be dry,' and 'I will dry up your rivers;'

  • 44he turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, so that they could not drink.

  • 4He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers. Bashan languishes, and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon languishes.

  • 15Neither shall there be for Egypt any work, which head or tail, palm branch or rush, may do.

  • 24I have dug and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.'

  • 25I have dug and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt."

  • 38A drought is on her waters, and they shall be dried up; for it is a land of engraved images, and they are mad over idols.

  • 7The burning sand will become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water. Grass with reeds and rushes will be in the habitation of jackals, where they lay.

  • 8Then he said to me, These waters issue forth toward the eastern region, and shall go down into the Arabah; and they shall go toward the sea; into the sea [shall the waters go] which were made to issue forth; and the waters shall be healed.

  • 6All the inhabitants of Egypt will know that I am Yahweh, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.

  • 32and the passages are seized, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are frightened.

  • 21The fish that were in the river died; and the river became foul, and the Egyptians couldn't drink water from the river; and the blood was throughout all the land of Egypt.

  • Exod 7:24-25
    2 verses
    72%

    24All the Egyptians dug around the river for water to drink; for they couldn't drink of the water of the river.

    25Seven days were fulfilled, after Yahweh had struck the river.

  • 15Though he is fruitful among his brothers, an east wind will come, the breath of Yahweh coming up from the wilderness; and his spring will become dry, and his fountain will be dried up. He will plunder the storehouse of treasure.

  • 30For you shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, and as a garden that has no water.

  • 8Won't the land tremble for this, and everyone mourn who dwells in it? Yes, it will rise up wholly like the River; and it will be stirred up and sink again, like the River of Egypt.

  • 6The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved.

  • 5For the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, is he who touches the land and it melts, and all who dwell in it will mourn; and it will rise up wholly like the River, and will sink again, like the River of Egypt.

  • 14Then will I make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to run like oil, says the Lord Yahweh.

  • 4He breaks open a shaft away from where people live. They are forgotten by the foot. They hang far from men, they swing back and forth.

  • 7now therefore, behold, the Lord brings upon them the mighty flood waters of the River: the king of Assyria and all his glory. It will come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks.

  • 18I will open rivers on the bare heights, and springs in the midst of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

  • 7They shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate; and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted.

  • 2that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus on the waters, saying, "Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide!"

  • 12The sixth poured out his bowl on the great river, the Euphrates. Its water was dried up, that the way might be prepared for the kings that come from the sunrise.

  • 20Yes, the animals of the field pant to you, for the water brooks have dried up, And the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

  • 19You daughter who dwells in Egypt, furnish yourself to go into captivity; for Memphis shall become a desolation, and shall be burnt up, without inhabitant.

  • 6For, behold, they have gone away from destruction. Egypt will gather them up. Memphis will bury them. Nettles will possess their pleasant things of silver. Thorns will be in their tents.

  • 36Therefore thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you; and I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.