Verse 6

The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will trickle and then dry up; the bulrushes and reeds will decay,

Referenced Verses

  • 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.’