Parallel Verses

King James 2000

Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, palm branch or bulrush, may do.

New American Standard Bible

There will be no work for Egypt
Which its head or tail, its palm branch or bulrush, may do.

King James Version

Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.

Holman Bible

No head or tail, palm or reed,
will be able to do anything for Egypt.

International Standard Version

As a result, there will be nothing for Egypt that head or tail, palm branch or reed, can do.

A Conservative Version

Neither shall there be for Egypt any work, which head or tail, palm-branch or rush, may do.

American Standard Version

Neither shall there be for Egypt any work, which head or tail, palm-branch or rush, may do.

Amplified


There will be no work for Egypt
Which head or tail, [high] palm branch or [low] bulrush, may do.

Bible in Basic English

And in Egypt there will be no work for any man, head or tail, high or low, to do.

Darby Translation

Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, palm-branch or rush, may do.

Julia Smith Translation

And there shall not be to Egypt a work which shall make head and tail, branch and reed.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And {there will be nothing for Egypt to do}, head or tail, palm branch or reed.

Modern King James verseion

And Egypt shall have no work that the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Neither shall the head or tail, the branch or reed be able to do any work in Egypt.

NET Bible

Egypt will not be able to do a thing, head or tail, shoots and stalk.

New Heart English Bible

Neither shall there be for Egypt any work, which head or tail, palm branch or rush, may do.

The Emphasized Bible

And Egypt shall have nothing which can be don Which head or tail palm-top or rush, can do!

Webster

Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may perform.

World English Bible

Neither shall there be for Egypt any work, which head or tail, palm branch or rush, may do.

Youngs Literal Translation

And there is no work to Egypt, That head or tail, branch or reed, may do.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
מעשׂה 
Ma`aseh 
Usage: 234

מצרים 
Mitsrayim 
Usage: 681

which the head
ראשׁ 
Ro'sh 
Usage: 598

or tail
זנב 
Zanab 
Usage: 11

כּפּה 
Kippah 
Usage: 3

or rush
אגמון 
'agmown 
Usage: 5

References

American

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Watsons

Context Readings

Oracle Of Judgment On Egypt

14 The LORD has mixed a perverse spirit in its midst: and they have caused Egypt to err in her every work, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit. 15 Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, palm branch or bulrush, may do. 16 In that day shall Egypt be like women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which he shakes over it.

Cross References

Isaiah 9:14-15

Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed, in one day.

Psalm 128:2

For you shall eat the labor of your hands: happy shall you be, and it shall be well with you.

Proverbs 14:23

In all labor there is profit: but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.

Habakkuk 3:17

Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be on the vines; the labor of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no food; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:

Haggai 1:11

And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the grain, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground brings forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labor of the hands.

1 Thessalonians 4:11-12

And that you study to be quiet, and to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;

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