Bible verse

Isaiah 19:5

The waters of the Nile will dry up, and the riverbed will be parched and empty.

Isaiah 19:5 · BSB

Isaiah 19:5 in context

The verses around it, from Isaiah 19.

1 This is the burden against Egypt: Behold, the LORD rides on a swift cloud; He is coming to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble before Him, and the hearts of the Egyptians will melt within them.

2 “So I will incite Egyptian against Egyptian; brother will fight against brother, neighbor against neighbor, city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.

3 Then the spirit of the Egyptians will be emptied out from among them, and I will frustrate their plans, so that they will resort to idols and spirits of the dead, to mediums and spiritists.

4 I will deliver the Egyptians into the hands of harsh masters, and a fierce king will rule over them,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.

5 The waters of the Nile will dry up, and the riverbed will be parched and empty.

6 The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will trickle and dry up; the reeds and rushes will wither.

7 The bulrushes by the Nile, by the mouth of the river, and all the fields sown along the Nile, will wither, blow away, and be no more.

8 Then the fishermen will mourn, all who cast a hook into the Nile will lament, and those who spread nets on the waters will pine away.

9 The workers in flax will be dismayed, and the weavers of fine linen will turn pale.

Read all of Isaiah 19

Isaiah 19:5 in other translations

KJV

And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.

ASV

And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and become dry.

ERV

And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and become dry.

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