Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The water of the sea shall be drawn out, the Nile shall sink away, and be drunk up.
New American Standard Bible
And the river will be parched and dry.
King James Version
And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
Holman Bible
and the river will be parched and dry.
International Standard Version
"The water sources of the Nile will be dried up, and the river will become dry and parched.
A Conservative Version
And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and become dry.
American Standard Version
And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and become dry.
Amplified
The waters from the sea will dry up,
And the river will be parched and dry.
Bible in Basic English
And the waters of the sea will be cut off, and the river will become dry and waste:
Darby Translation
And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up;
Julia Smith Translation
And the water failed from the sea, and the river will waste and dry up.
King James 2000
And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And [the] waters will be dried up from the sea, and [the] river will be parched and dry.
Modern King James verseion
And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall fail and dry up.
NET Bible
The water of the sea will be dried up, and the river will dry up and be empty.
New Heart English Bible
The waters will fail from the sea, and the river will be wasted and become dry.
The Emphasized Bible
And the waters shall be dried up from the great stream, - And the River, shall waste and be dry;
Webster
And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the rivers shall be wasted and dried up.
World English Bible
The waters will fail from the sea, and the river will be wasted and become dry.
Youngs Literal Translation
And failed have waters from the sea, And a river is wasted and dried up.
Themes
Egypt » Prophecies respecting » Failure of internal resources
River Nile » The egyptians » Punished by failure of its waters
Interlinear
Mayim
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 19:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Oracle Of Judgment On Egypt
4 I will deliver Egypt also into the hands of grievous rulers, and a cruel king shall have the rule of them. 5 The water of the sea shall be drawn out, the Nile shall sink away, and be drunk up. 6 The rivers also shall be drawn out, the wells shall decrease and dry away.
Cross References
Jeremiah 51:36
Therefore thus sayeth the LORD: Behold, I will defend thy cause, and avenge thee: I will drink up her sea, and dry up her water springs.
Ezekiel 30:12
I will dry up their floods of water, and sell the land into the hands of wicked people. The land and all that is therein, will I destroy through the enemies. Even I the LORD have said it.
Zechariah 10:11
He shall go upon the sea of trouble, and smite the sea waves: so that all the deep floods shall be dried up. The proud boasting of Assyria shall be cast down, and the scepter of Egypt shall be taken away.
Zechariah 14:18
If the kindred of Egypt go not up, and come not, it shall not rain upon them neither. This shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all Heathen, that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.