Isaiah 19:5–7
And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
And the waters shall faile from the sea, and the riuer shalbe wasted, and dried vp.
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.
And they shall turne the riuers farre away, and the brookes of defence shall be emptied and dried vp: the reeds and flagges shall wither.
The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.
†The paper reeds by the brookes, by the mouth of the brookes, and euery thing sowen by the brooks shal wither, be driuen away, and be no more.
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- †Hebrew wordingHeb. and shall not be.
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From verse 5
- Jeremiah 51:36Rank 1 from verse 5
- Ezekiel 30:12Rank 2 from verse 5
12And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the Lord have spoken it.
12††And I will make the riuers drie, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked, and I wil make the land wast, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the LORD haue spoken it.
- Zechariah 10:11Rank 3 from verse 5
11And he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away.
11And he shall passe through the sea with affliction, & shall smite the waues in the Sea, and all the deepes of the riuer shall dry vp: and the pride of Assyria shall be brought downe, and the scepter of Egypt shall depart away.
- Zechariah 14:18Rank 4 from verse 5
18And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the Lord will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
18†And if the family of Egypt goe not vp, and come not, that haue no raine: there shall bee the plague wherewith the LORD will smite the heathen that come not vp to keepe the feast of Tabernacles.
From verse 6
- Isaiah 37:25Rank 1 from verse 6
- 2 Kings 19:24Rank 2 from verse 6
- Exodus 2:3Rank 3 from verse 6
3And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink.
3And when shee could not longer hide him, she tooke for him an arke of bul-rushes, and daubed it with slime, and with pitch, and put the childe therein, and shee layd it in the flags by the riuers brinke.
- Exodus 7:18Rank 4 from verse 6
- Isaiah 15:6Rank 6 from verse 6
- Isaiah 18:2Rank 7 from verse 6
2That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!
2‖‖‖That sendeth ambassadours by the sea, euen in vessels of bulrushes vpon the waters, saying; Goe yee swift messengers to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto, a nation meted out and troden downe; whose land the riuers haue spoiled.
From verse 7
- Ezekiel 19:13Rank 1 from verse 7
- Isaiah 23:3Rank 2 from verse 7
- Isaiah 32:20Rank 3 from verse 7
- Jeremiah 14:4Rank 4 from verse 7
- Joel 1:17–18Rank 5 from verse 7
17The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
18How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
17The †seede is rotten vnder their clods: the garners are laide desolate: the barnes are broken downe, for the corne is withered.
18How doe the beastes grone? the heards of cattell are perplexed, because they haue no pasture, yea the flockes of sheepe are made desolate.
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Isaiah 19:5
An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.
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Sense 1: To become deficient; to be insufficient; to cease to be abundant for supply. Sense 2: To be entirely wanting.
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1. A great body or expanse of gathered waters, including a named sea or lake, in which ships and creatures move. 2. The large brazen or molten basin made for the temple and called a sea. 3. Something represented or compared as a sea.
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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of waste, meaning to consume, devour, destroy, ravage, or desolate.
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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of dry, meaning to become or make free from moisture.
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Isaiah 19:6
An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.
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Sense 1: To change direction, position, condition, purpose, or allegiance; to cause such a change. Sense 2: One’s time or occasion in an order or succession.
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Sense 1: Protection from attack or harm; a means of defending. Sense 2: An answer made against an accusation.
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Past-tense or past-participial form of empty (to make void or destitute, deprive of contents, or pour out).
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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of dry, meaning to become or make free from moisture.
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1. Units of length measured by a measuring reed. 2. Tall, cane-like plants growing in or near water.
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Marsh or water plants.
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To dry up, fade, lose freshness or strength, or waste away.
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Isaiah 19:7
1. Material used for writing. 2. Used attributively of a kind of reed growing beside water.
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1. Units of length measured by a measuring reed. 2. Tall, cane-like plants growing in or near water.
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Sense 1: The bodily opening used for eating, breathing, and speaking. Sense 2: The opening or entrance of a thing. Sense 3: Speech, utterance, or the agency of speaking.
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Each individual or member of the class, group, place, time, side, or kind named; all distributively.
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1. Scattered or planted as seed. 2. By figure, imparted, spread, or laid down.
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An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.
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To dry up, fade, lose freshness or strength, or waste away.
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Past-participial form of drive: impelled, forced, urged, carried, or moved onward or away.
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4And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts.
4‖And the Egyptians will I giue ouer into the hand of a cruell LORD; and a fierce king shall rule ouer them, saith the LORDe, the LORD of hostes.
5And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
5And the waters shall faile from the sea, and the riuer shalbe wasted, and dried vp.
Selected passage6And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.
6And they shall turne the riuers farre away, and the brookes of defence shall be emptied and dried vp: the reeds and flagges shall wither.
Selected passage7The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.
7†The paper reeds by the brookes, by the mouth of the brookes, and euery thing sowen by the brooks shal wither, be driuen away, and be no more.
Selected passage8The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.
8The fishers also shall mourne, and all they that cast angle into the brookes shall lament, and they that spread nets vpon the waters shall languish.