Isaiah 19:6

Isaiah 19:6 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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.
• New International Version (NIV)The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will dwindle and dry up. The reeds and rushes will wither,
• New King James Version (NKJV)The rivers will turn foul; The brooks of defense will be emptied and dried up; The reeds and rushes will wither.
• New Living Translation (NLT)The canals of the Nile will dry up, and the streams of Egypt will stink with rotting reeds and rushes.

Context of Isaiah 19:6

4and I will give over the Egyptians into the hand of a hard master, and a fierce king will rule over them, declares the Lord God of hosts. 5And the waters of the sea will be dried up, and the river will be dry and parched, and its canals will become foul, and the branches of Egypt's Nile will diminish and dry up, reeds and rushes will rot away. 7There will be bare places by the Nile, on the brink of the Nile, and all that is sown by the Nile will be parched, will be driven away, and will be no more. 8The fishermen will mourn and lament, all who cast a hook in the Nile; and they will languish who spread nets on the water.

Isaiah 19:6 word by word

וְהֶאֶזְנִ֣יחוּ נְהָר֔וֹת דָּלֲל֥וּ וְחָרְב֖וּ יְאֹרֵ֣י מָצ֑וֹר קָנֶ֥ה וָס֖וּף קָמֵֽלוּ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• And they shall turnזָנַחzânach · to rejectH2186
• the riversנָהָרnâhâr · riverH5104
• the brooksיְאֹרye'ôr · NileH2975
• of defenceמָצוֹרmâtsôr · EgyptH4693
• shall be emptiedדָּלַלdâlal · to languishH1809
• and dried upחָרֵבchârab chârêb · to dryH2717
• the reedsקָנֶהqâneh · branch: stemH7070
• and flagsסוּףsûph · reedH5488
• shall witherקָמֵלqâmal · to decayH7060

Cross-references for Isaiah 19:6

• Isaiah 37:25I dug wells and drank waters, to dry up with the sole of my foot all the streams of Egypt.
• 2 Kings 19:24I dug wells and drank foreign waters, and I dried up with the sole of my foot all the streams of Egypt.'
• Isaiah 18:2which sends ambassadors by the sea, in vessels of papyrus on the waters! Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide.
• Exodus 2:3When she could hide him no longer, she took for him a basket made of bulrushes and daubed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and placed it among the reeds by the river bank.
• Job 8:11"Can papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Can reeds flourish where there is no water?

Commentaries on Isaiah 19:6

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6Shall turn the rivers far away "Shall become putrid" - האזניחו heeznichu . This sense of the word, which Simonis gives in his Lexicon, from the meaning of it in Arabic, suits the place much better than any other interpretation hitherto given; and that the word in Hebrew had some such signification, is probable from 2 Chronicles 29:19, where the Vulgate renders it by polluit, polluted, and the Targum, by profaned, and made abominable, which the context in…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6And they shall turn the rivers far away - (האזיּחוּ he'ezenı̂ychû ), probably from זנח zânach “to have an offensive smell; to be rancid, or putrid.” The word in this form occurs nowhere else. It is in the Hiphil conjugation, and is probably a form made from a mixture with the Chaldee. The sense is not doubtful. It means the rivers shall become putrid - or have an offensive smell;‘ that is, shall become stagnant, and send forth unwholesome “miasmata”…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-10Egypt relied heavily on the Nile for food, fish, and industry. When the Lord struck the Nile, Egypt would face severe difficulties, and its gods would not be able to help.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 66. they shall turn the rivers--rather, "the streams shall become putrid"; that is, the artificial streams made for irrigation shall become stagnant and offensive when the waters fail [Maurer]. Horsley, with the Septuagint, translates, "And waters from the sea shall be drunk"; by the failure of the river water they shall be reduced to sea water. brooks of defence--rather, "canals of Egypt"; "canals," literally, "Niles," Nile canals, the plural of the…Read the comment

Topics related to Isaiah 19:6

• Egypt
• Flag
• Flax
• Nile
• Reed
• War

In the dictionaries

• Cane
• Egypt
• Flag
• Reed
• Brook of Egypt, the
• Canals
• Empty; Emptier
• Evil
• Ezekiel
• Far; Farther

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