6and the rivers shall stink, and the streams of Egypt shall be diminished and drain away: the reeds and sedges shall wither.


In Context

3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst of it, and I will destroy the counsel thereof; and they shall seek unto the idols and unto the conjurers, and unto the necromancers, and unto the soothsayers.

4 And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord, and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.

5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up;

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

7 The meadows by the Nile, on the banks of the Nile, and everything sown by the Nile, shall be dried up, be driven away, and be no more.

8 And the fishers shall mourn, and all they that cast fish-hook into the Nile shall lament, and they that spread net upon the waters shall languish.

Isaiah 19:6 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

19:6And they shall turn the rivers far away; [and] the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

19:6The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will dwindle and dry up. The reeds and rushes will wither,

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

19:6And the rivers shall fail: the streams of the banks shall be diminished, and be dried up. The reed and the bulrush shall wither away.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

19:6And the rivers shall become foul; the streams of Egypt shall be diminished and dried up; the reeds and flags shall wither away.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

19:6And the rivers shall stink; the streams of Egypt shall be minished and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither away.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:6And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defense shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:6The rivers will become foul. The streams of Egypt will be diminished and dried up. The reeds and flags will wither away.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

19:6And they have turned away the flowings, Weak and dried up have been brooks of the bulwark, Reed and flag have withered.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

19:6And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defense shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.