Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
Isaiah 19:6
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The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will trickle and dry up; the reeds and rushes will wither.
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And they shall turn the rivers far away; [and] the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.
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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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And the rivers shall become foul; the streams of Egypt shall be diminished and dried up; the reeds and flags shall wither away.
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Isaiah 19
4 I will deliver the Egyptians into the hands of a harsh master, and a fierce king will rule over them,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.
5 The waters of the Nile will dry up, and the riverbed will be parched and empty.
6 The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will trickle and dry up; the reeds and rushes will wither.
7 The bulrushes by the Nile, by the mouth of the river, and all the fields sown along the Nile, will wither, blow away, and be no more.
8 Then the fishermen will mourn, all who cast a hook into the Nile will lament, and those who spread nets on the waters will pine away.
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