Isaiah 19:15
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“There is nothing Egypt can do— head or tail, palm or reed.”
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BSBPD
“There is nothing Egypt can do— head or tail, palm or reed.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Neither shall there be for Egypt any work, which head or tail, palm-branch or rush, may do.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“And there is no work to Egypt, That head or tail, branch or reed, may do.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Isaiah 19:15 — 7 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 128:2For when you eat the fruit of your labor, blessings and prosperity will be yours.
- Proverbs 14:23There is profit in all labor, but mere talk leads only to poverty.
- Isaiah 9:13But the people did not return to Him who struck them; they did not seek the LORD of Hosts.
- Isaiah 9:14So the LORD will cut off Israel’s head and tail, both palm branch and reed in a single day.
- Habakkuk 3:17Though the fig tree does not bud and no fruit is on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though the sheep are cut off from the fold and no cattle are in the stalls,
- Haggai 1:11I have summoned a drought on the fields and on the mountains, on the grain, new wine, and oil, and on whatever the ground yields, on man and beast, and on all the labor of your hands.”
- 1 Thessalonians 4:11and to aspire to live quietly, to attend to your own matters, and to work with your own hands, as we instructed you.
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