Isaiah 19:5

Isaiah 19:5 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
• New International Version (NIV)The waters of the river will dry up, and the riverbed will be parched and dry.
• English Standard Version (ESV)And the waters of the sea will be dried up, and the river will be dry and parched,
• New King James Version (NKJV)The waters will fail from the sea, And the river will be wasted and dried up.

Context of Isaiah 19:5

3Egypt’s spirit will be disturbed within it, and I will frustrate its plans. Then they will inquire of worthless idols, ghosts, mediums, and spiritists. 4I will hand over Egypt to harsh masters, and a strong king will rule it. This is the declaration of the Lord God of Armies. The water of the sea will dry up, and the river will be parched and dry. 6The channels will stink; they will dwindle, and Egypt’s canals will be parched. Reed and rush will wilt. 7The reeds by the Nile, by the mouth of the river, and all the cultivated areas of the Nile will wither, blow away, and vanish.

Isaiah 19:5 word by word

וְנִשְּׁתוּ־מַ֖יִם מֵֽהַיָּ֑ם וְנָהָ֖ר יֶחֱרַ֥ב וְיָבֵֽשׁ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• And the watersמַיmayim · waterH4325
• shall failנָשַׁתnâshath · be dryH5405
• from the seaיָםyâm · seaH3220
• and the riverנָהָרnâhâr · riverH5104
• shall be wastedחָרֵבchârab chârêb · to dryH2717
• and dried upיָבֵשׁyâbêsh · to witherH3001

Cross-references for Isaiah 19:5

• Jeremiah 51:36Therefore, this is what the Lord says: I am about to champion your cause and take vengeance on your behalf; I will dry up her sea and make her fountain run dry.
• Ezekiel 30:12I will make the streams dry and sell the land to evil men. I will bring desolation on the land and everything in it by the hands of foreigners. I, the Lord, have spoken.
• Zechariah 10:11The Lord will pass through the sea of distress and strike the waves of the sea; all the depths of the Nile will dry up. The pride of Assyria will be brought down, and the scepter of Egypt will come to an end.
• Zechariah 14:18And if the people of Egypt will not go up and enter, then rain will not fall on them; this will be the plague the Lord inflicts on the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Festival of Shelters.

Commentaries on Isaiah 19:5

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5The 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.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5And 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…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5The Nile River was essential for Egypt's survival. Any change in its flooding pattern impacted the entire country. In ancient Egypt, people saw the Nile as a god. However, the true God could easily dry it up.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. the sea--the Nile. Physical calamities, it is observed in history, often accompany political convulsions (Eze 30:12). The Nile shall "fail" to rise to its wonted height, the result of which will be barrenness and famine. Its "waters" at the time of the overflow resemble "a sea" [Pliny, Natural History, 85.11]; and it is still called El-Bahr," "the sea," by the Egyptians (Is 18:2; Jr 51:36). A public record is kept at Cairo of the daily rise of the…Read the comment

Topics related to Isaiah 19:5

• Egypt
• Nile
• War

In the dictionaries

• Euphrates River, the River
• the sea, the Great Sea, the western sea
• Egypt
• Sea, The
• Evil
• Ezekiel
• Isaiah
• Sea

Commentaries on Isaiah 19

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings