Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

And the rivers shall become foul. The streams of Egypt shall be diminished and dried up. The reeds and flags shall wither away.

New American Standard Bible

The canals will emit a stench,
The streams of Egypt will thin out and dry up;
The reeds and rushes will rot away.

King James Version

And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.

Holman Bible

The channels will stink;
they will dwindle, and Egypt’s canals will be parched.
Reed and rush will die.

International Standard Version

The canals will stink, and the tributaries of Egypt will dwindle and dry up. Reeds and rushes will wither away.

American Standard Version

And the rivers shall become foul; the streams of Egypt shall be diminished and dried up; the reeds and flags shall wither away.

Amplified


The canals will become foul-smelling,
The streams of Egypt will thin out and dry up,
The reeds and the rushes will rot away.

Bible in Basic English

And the rivers will have an evil smell; the stream of Egypt will become small and dry: all the water-plants will come to nothing.

Darby Translation

and the rivers shall stink, and the streams of Egypt shall be diminished and drain away: the reeds and sedges shall wither.

Julia Smith Translation

They cast away the rivers; the rivers of Egypt languished and dried up; the reed and the sedge pined away.

King James 2000

And they shall turn the rivers foul; and the brooks of Egypt shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and rushes shall wither.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And [the] rivers will become foul-smelling; the branches of the Nile of Egypt will become little and dry up; reed and rush will wither.

Modern King James verseion

And rivers shall be fouled; the Nile of Egypt will languish and dry up; the reed and the rush shall decay.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The rivers also shall be drawn out, the wells shall decrease and dry away.

NET Bible

The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will trickle and then dry up; the bulrushes and reeds will decay,

New Heart English Bible

The rivers will become foul. The streams of Egypt will be diminished and dried up. The reeds and flags will wither away.

The Emphasized Bible

And rivers, shall stink, The canals of Egypt be shallow and waste, Reed and rush, he withered;

Webster

And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defense shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.

World English Bible

The rivers will become foul. The streams of Egypt will be diminished and dried up. The reeds and flags will wither away.

Youngs Literal Translation

And they have turned away the flowings, Weak and dried up have been brooks of the bulwark, Reed and flag have withered.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
זנח 
Zanach 
Usage: 20

the rivers
נהר 
Nahar 
Usage: 119

זנח 
Zanach 
Usage: 20

and the brooks
יאר 
Y@`or 
Usage: 65

of defence
מצור 
Matsowr 
Usage: 5

דּלל 
Dalal 
Usage: 9

and dried up
חרב חרב 
Charab 
Usage: 40

the reeds
קנה 
Qaneh 
Usage: 62

and flags
סוּף 
Cuwph 
Usage: 28

References

American

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Morish

Smith

Watsons

Context Readings

Oracle Of Judgment On Egypt

5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and become dry. 6 And the rivers shall become foul. The streams of Egypt shall be diminished and dried up. The reeds and flags shall wither away. 7 The meadows by the Nile, by the brink of the Nile, and all the sown fields of the Nile, shall become dry, be driven away, and be no more.

Cross References

Isaiah 37:25

I have dug and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt.

Exodus 2:3

And when she could no longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch. And she put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river's edge.

Job 8:11

Can the rush grow up without mire? Can a reed grow without water?

Exodus 7:18

And the fish that are in the river shall die, and the river shall become foul, and the Egyptians shall loathe to drink water from the river.

2 Kings 19:24

I have dug and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt.

Isaiah 15:6

For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate, for the grass is withered away. The tender grass fails. There is no green thing.

Isaiah 18:2

that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus upon the waters, [saying], Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people fearful from their beginning onward, a nation that metes out and treads down

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