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.

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

Can thou put a rope into his nose, or pierce his jaw through with a hook?

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

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

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

And the glowing sand shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water. In the habitation of jackals, where they lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.

that they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of LORD has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has created it.

Is such the fast that I have chosen, the day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a rush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to LORD?

Is such the fast that I have chosen, the day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a rush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to LORD?