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

3The Egyptians will lose heart, and I will confuse their plans. They will plead with their idols for wisdom and call on spirits, mediums, and those who consult the spirits of the dead. 4I will hand Egypt over to a hard, cruel master. A fierce king will rule them,” says the Lord, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. The waters of the Nile will fail to rise and flood the fields. The riverbed will be parched and dry. 6The canals of the Nile will dry up, and the streams of Egypt will stink with rotting reeds and rushes. 7All the greenery along the riverbank and all the crops along the river will dry up and blow away.

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 51:36This is what the Lord says to Jerusalem: “I will be your lawyer to plead your case, and I will avenge you. I will dry up her river, as well as her springs,
• Ezekiel 30:12I will dry up the Nile River and sell the land to wicked men. I will destroy the land of Egypt and everything in it by the hands of foreigners. I, the Lord, have spoken!
• Zechariah 10:11They will pass safely through the sea of distress, for the waves of the sea will be held back, and the waters of the Nile will dry up. The pride of Assyria will be crushed, and the rule of Egypt will end.
• Zechariah 14:18If the people of Egypt refuse to attend the festival, the Lord will punish them with the same plague that he sends on the other nations who refuse to go.

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