Isaiah 19:5
Good News Translation
The water will be low in the Nile, and the river will gradually dry up.

New Revised Standard Version
The waters of the Nile will be dried up, and the river will be parched and dry;

Contemporary English Version
The Nile River will dry up and become parched land.

New American Bible
The waters shall be drained from the sea, the river shall parch and dry up;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the water of the sea shall be dried up, and the river shall be wasted and dry.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the water of the sea shall be dried up, and the river shall be wasted and dry.

Jeremiah 51:36 Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I will judge thy cause, and will take vengeance for thee, and I will make her sea desolate, I and will dry up her spring.

Ezekiel 30:12 And I will make the channels of the rivers dry, and will deliver the land into the hand of the wicked: and will lay waste the land and all that is therein by the hands of strangers, I the Lord have spoken it.

Zechariah 10:11 And he shall pass over the strait of the sea, and shall strike the waves in the sea, and all the depths of the river shall be confounded, and the pride of Assyria shall be humbled, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart.

Zechariah 14:18 And if the family of Egypt go not up nor come: neither shall it be upon them, but there shall be destruction wherewith the Lord will strike all nations that will not go up to keep the feast of tabernacles.

Context
An Oracle Concerning Egypt
4And I will deliver Egypt into the hand of cruel masters, and a strong king shall rule over them, saith the Lord the God of hosts. 5And the water of the sea shall be dried up, and the river shall be wasted and dry.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.…
Cross References
Job 14:11
As if the waters should depart out of the sea, and an emptied river should be dried up;

Isaiah 15:6
For the waters of Nemrim shall be desolate, for the grass is withered away, the spring is faded, all the greenness is perished.

Isaiah 23:11
He stretched out his hand over the sea, he troubled kingdoms: the Lord hath given a charge against Chanaan, to destroy the strong ones thereof.

Isaiah 50:2
Because I came, and there was not a man: I called, and there was none that would hear. Is my hand shortened and become little, that I cannot redeem? or is there no strength in me to deliver? Behold at my rebuke I will make the sea a desert, I will turn the rivers into dry land: the fishes shall rot for want of water, and shall die for thirst.

Jeremiah 51:36
Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I will judge thy cause, and will take vengeance for thee, and I will make her sea desolate, I and will dry up her spring.

Ezekiel 30:12
And I will make the channels of the rivers dry, and will deliver the land into the hand of the wicked: and will lay waste the land and all that is therein by the hands of strangers, I the Lord have spoken it.

Zechariah 10:11
And he shall pass over the strait of the sea, and shall strike the waves in the sea, and all the depths of the river shall be confounded, and the pride of Assyria shall be humbled, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart.

Isaiah 19:4
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