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Isaiah 19:6

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19:6The canals9 will stink;10

the streams of Egypt will trickle and then dry up;

the bulrushes and reeds will decay,

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Footnotes

  1. 9 Heb “rivers” (so , ); , “streams”; “channels.”
  2. 10 The verb form appears as a Hiphil in the Qumran scroll 1QIsaa; the form in may be a so-called “mixed form,” reflecting the Hebrew Hiphil stem and the functionally corresponding Aramaic Aphel stem. See I זנח.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

and its canals will become foul,

and the branches of Egypt’s Nile will diminish and dry up,

reeds and rushes will rot away.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

The canals will stink;

the streams of Egypt will dwindle and dry up.

The reeds and rushes will wither,

CSBChristian Standard Bible

The channels will stink;

they will dwindle, and Egypt’s canals will be parched.

Reed and rush will wilt.

NLTNew Living Translation

The canals of the Nile will dry up,

and the streams of Egypt will stink

with rotting reeds and rushes.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And the rivers will become foul-smelling;

the branches of the Nile of Egypt will become little and dry up;

reed and rush will wither.

KJV 1900King James Version

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.