Isaiah 19:6
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The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will trickle and dry up; the reeds and rushes will wither.
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I have dug wells and drunk foreign waters. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”
I have dug wells and drunk foreign waters. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”
The fish in the Nile will die, the river will stink, and the Egyptians will be unable to drink its water.’”
But when she could no longer hide him, she got him a papyrus basket and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in the basket and set it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.
Does papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Do reeds flourish without water?
which sends couriers by sea, in papyrus vessels on the waters. Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people widely feared, to a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers.
The waters of Nimrim are dried up, and the grass is withered; the vegetation is gone, and the greenery is no more.