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Isaiah 19:5

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And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
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  1. Jeremiah 51:36Rank 1 from verse 5
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    36Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.

  2. Ezekiel 30:12Rank 2 from verse 5
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    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.

  3. Zechariah 10:11Rank 3 from verse 5
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    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.

  4. Zechariah 14:18Rank 4 from verse 5
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    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.

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Isaiah 19:5

COMBINED MEANING

shall

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An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

fail

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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.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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sea

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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.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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wasted

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of waste, meaning to consume, devour, destroy, ravage, or desolate.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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dried

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of dry, meaning to become or make free from moisture.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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19:1THE burden of Egypt. Behold, the Lord rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.

19:2And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.

19:3And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.

19:4And 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.

19:5And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.

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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.

19:7The 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.

19:8The 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.

19:9Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded.

19:10And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish.

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