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Isaiah 19:5
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The water of the sea will dry up,and the river will be parched and dry.
The waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and become dry.
And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
And the waters of the sea will be dried up, and the river will be dry and parched,
The waters from the sea will dry up, And the river will be parched and dry.
The sea will become dry, and the water will disappear from the Nile River.
The waters from the sea will dry up, And the river will be parched and dry.
Then the waters of the sea shall faile, and the riuers shall be dryed vp, and wasted.
The waters from the sea will dry up,And the river will be parched and dry.
The waters of the Nile will dry up, and the riverbed will be parched and empty.
The Nile River will dry up and become parched land.
The water will ebb from the sea, the river will be drained dry.
And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up;
The water in the Nile River will dry up and disappear.
And they shall cut off the water from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
The water will be low in the Nile, and the river will gradually dry up.
And the waters will be dried up from the sea, and the river will be parched and dry.
And the waters shall dry up from the sea, and the river shall fail and dry up.
The water of the see shalbe drawe out, Nilus shal synke awaye, & be dronke vp.
And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and become dry.
And the waters of the sea will be cut off, and the river will become dry and waste:
And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be drained dry,
And the waters shall faile from the sea, and the riuer shalbe wasted, and dried vp.
The waters of the sea shall fayle, and the riuer shall decrease and be dryed vp.
And the Egyptians shall drink the water that is by the sea, but the river shall fail, and be dried up.
And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and become dry.
And watir of the see schal wexe drie, and the flood schal be desolat, and schal be dried.
And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and become dry.
And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the rivers shall be wasted and dried up.
The water of the sea will be dried up, and the river will dry up and be empty.
The waters will fail from the sea, And the river will be wasted and dried up.
The waters of the Nile will fail to rise and flood the fields. The riverbed will be parched and dry.
The waters of the sea will dry up. The river will become dry.
The waters of the Nile will be dried up, and the river will be parched and dry;
And the waters shall be dried up from the great stream, - And the River, shall waste and be dry;
And the water of the sea shall be dried up, and the river shall be wasted and dry.
And the waters of the Nile will be dried up, and the river will be parched and dry;
And failed have waters from the sea, And a river is wasted and dried up.
The River Nile will dry up, the riverbed baked dry in the sun. The canals will become stagnant and stink, every stream touching the Nile dry up. River vegetation will rot away the banks of the Nile-baked clay, The riverbed hard and smooth, river grasses dried up and gone with the wind. Fishermen will complain that the fishing's been ruined. Textile workers will be out of work, all weavers and workers in linen and cotton and wool Dispirited, depressed in their forced idleness— everyone who works for a living, jobless.
The waters from the sea will dry up, And the river will be parched and dry.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Jeremiah 51:36, Ezekiel 30:12, Zechariah 10:11, Zechariah 14:18
Reciprocal: Genesis 41:1 - the river Job 8:11 - the rush Psalms 107:33 - turneth Isaiah 11:15 - shall smite Isaiah 18:2 - have spoiled Isaiah 32:20 - Blessed Nahum 1:4 - and drieth Nahum 3:8 - that had
Cross-References
The sun was risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar.
Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky.
But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before Yahweh.
You shall not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
If a man lie with mankind, as with womankind, both of them have committed abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be on them.
As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain base fellows, beset the house round about, beating at the door; and they spoke to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man who came into your house, that we may know him.
Unless Yahweh of hosts had left to us a very small remnant, We would have been as Sodom; We would have been like Gomorrah.
The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They don't hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.
Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; yet you have a prostitute's forehead, you refused to be ashamed.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And the waters shall fail from the sea,.... Which Kimchi understands figuratively of the destruction of the Egyptians by the king of Assyria, compared to the drying up of the waters of the Nile; and others think that the failure of their trade by sea is meant, which brought great revenues into the kingdom: but, by what follows, it seems best to take the words in a literal sense, of the waters of the river Nile, which being dried up, as in the next clause, could not empty themselves into the sea, as they used, and therefore very properly may be said to fail from it; nay, the Nile itself may be called a sea, it being so large a confluence of water:
and the river shall be wasted and dried up; that is, the river Nile, which was not only very useful for their trade and navigation, but the fruitfulness of the country depended upon it; for the want of rain, in the land of Egypt, was supplied by the overflow of this river, at certain times, which brought and left such a slime upon the earth, as made it exceeding fertile; now the drying up of this river was either occasioned by some great drought, which God in judgment sent; or by the practices of some of their princes with this river, by which it was greatly impaired, and its usefulness diminished.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
And the waters shall fail - Here commences a description of the “physical” calamities that would come upon the land, which continues to Isaiah 19:10. The previous verses contained an account of the national calamities by civil wars. It may be observed that discord, anarchy, and civil wars, are often connected with physical calamities; as famine, drought, pestilence. God has the elements, as well as the hearts of people, under his control; and when he chastises a nation, he often mingles anarchy, famine, discord, and the pestilence together. Often, too, civil wars have a “tendency” to produce these calamities. They annihilate industry, arrest enterprise, break up plans of commerce, and divert the attention of people from the cultivation of the soil. This might have been in part the case in Egypt; but it would seem also that God, by direct agency, intended to afflict them by drying up their streams in a remarkable manner.
From the sea - The parallelism here, as well as the whole scope of the passage, requires us to understand this of the Nile. The word ים yâm is sometimes used to denote a large river (see the notes at Isaiah 11:15; Isaiah 18:2). The Nile is often called a sea. Thus Pliny (“Nat. Hist.” ii. 35) says, ‘The water of the Nile resembles the sea.’ Thus, Seneca (“Quaest. Nat.” v. 2) says, ‘By continued accessions of water, it stagnates (stagnat) into the appearance of a broad and turbid sea.’ Compare Herodot. ii. 97; Diod. i. 12, 96; ‘To this day in Egypt, the Nile is el-Bahr, “the sea,” as its most common appellation.’ ‘Our Egyptian servant,’ says Dr. Robinson, ‘who spoke English, always called it “the sea.”’ (“Bib. Rescarches,” vol. i. 542).
And the river - The Nile.
Shall be wasted - This does not mean “entirely,” but its waters would fail so as to injure the country. It would not “overflow” in its accustomed manner, and the consequence would be, that the land would be desolate. It is well known that Egypt derives its great fertility entirely from the overflowing of the Nile. So important is this, that a public record is made at Cairo of the daily rise of the water. When the Nile rises to a less height than twelve cubits, a famine is the inevitable consequence, for then the water does not overflow the land. When it rises to a greater height than sixteen cubits, a famine is almost as certain - for then the superabundant waters are not drained off soon enough to allow them to sow the seed. The height of the inundation, therefore, that is necessary in order to insure a harvest, is from twelve to sixteen cubits. The annual overflow is in the month of August. The prophet here means that the Nile would not rise to the height that was desirable - or the waters should “fail” - and that the consequence would be a famine.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Isaiah 19:5. The river shall be wasted and dried up. — The Nile shall not overflow its banks; and if no inundation, the land must become barren. For, as there is little or no rain in Egypt, its fertility depends on the overflowing of the Nile.
