Parallel Verses

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 of the sea will be cut off, and the river will become dry and waste: 6 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. 7 The grass-lands by the Nile, and everything planted by the Nile, will become dry, or taken away by the wind, and will come to an end.

Cross References

Isaiah 37:25

I have made water-holes and taken their waters, and with my foot I have made all the rivers of Egypt dry.

Exodus 2:3

And when she was no longer able to keep him secret, she made him a basket out of the stems of water-plants, pasting sticky earth over it to keep the water out; and placing the baby in it she put it among the plants by the edge of the Nile.

Job 8:11

Will the river-plant come up in its pride without wet earth? will the grass get tall without water?

Exodus 7:18

And the fish in the Nile will come to destruction, and the river will send up a bad smell, and the Egyptians will not be able, for disgust, to make use of the water of the Nile for drinking.

2 Kings 19:24

I have made water-holes and taken their waters, and with my foot I have made all the rivers of Egypt dry.

Isaiah 15:6

The waters of Nimrim will become dry: for the grass is burned up, the young grass is coming to an end, every green thing is dead.

Isaiah 18:2

Which sends its representatives by the sea, even in ships of papyrus on the waters. Go back quickly, O representatives, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people causing fear through all their history; a strong nation, crushing down its haters, whose land is cut through by rivers.

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