Isaiah 19:5
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“The waters of the Nile will dry up, and the riverbed will be parched and empty.”
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“The waters of the Nile will dry up, and the riverbed will be parched and empty.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and become dry.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And failed have waters from the sea, And a river is wasted and dried up.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Isaiah 19:5 — 6 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 14:11As water disappears from the sea and a river becomes parched and dry,
- Isaiah 37:25I have dug wells and drunk foreign waters. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”
- Jeremiah 51:36Therefore this is what the LORD says: “Behold, I will plead your case and take vengeance on your behalf; I will dry up her sea and make her springs run dry.
- Ezekiel 30:12I will make the streams dry up and sell the land to the wicked. By the hands of foreigners I will bring desolation upon the land and everything in it. I, the LORD, have spoken.
- Zechariah 10:11They will pass through the sea of distressand 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 depart.
- Zechariah 14:18And if the people of Egypt will not go up and enter in, then the rain will not fall on them; this will be the plague with which the LORD strikes the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.
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