New English Translation
Isaiah 19:5
5The water of the sea will be dried up, and the river will dry up and be empty.
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
3The Egyptians will panic, and I will confuse their strategy. They will seek guidance from the idols and from the spirits of the dead, from the pits used to conjure up underworld spirits, and from the magicians. 4I will hand Egypt over to a harsh master; a powerful king will rule over them,” says the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies. The water of the sea will be dried up, and the river will dry up and be empty. 6The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will trickle and then dry up; the bulrushes and reeds will decay, 7along with the plants by the mouth of the river. All the cultivated land near the river will turn to dust and be blown away.
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וְנִשְּׁתוּ־מַ֖יִם מֵֽהַיָּ֑ם וְנָהָ֖ר יֶחֱרַ֥ב וְיָבֵֽשׁ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Isaiah 19:5
- Jeremiah 51:36Therefore the Lord says, “I will stand up for your cause. I will pay the Babylonians back for what they have done to you. I will dry up their sea. I will make their springs run dry.
- Ezekiel 30:12I will dry up the waterways and hand the land over to evil men. I will make the land and everything in it desolate by the hand of foreigners. I, the Lord, have spoken!
- Zechariah 10:11The Lord will cross the sea of storms and will calm its turbulence. The depths of the Nile will dry up, the pride of Assyria will be humbled, and the domination of Egypt will be no more.
- Zechariah 14:18If the Egyptians will not do so, they will get no rain – instead there will be the kind of plague which the Lord inflicts on any nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.
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
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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
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