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

and the

Isaiah 37:25 I have digged, and drunk water, and have dried up with the sole of my foot, all the rivers shut up in banks.

2 Kings 19:24 I have cut down, and I have drunk strange waters, and have dried up with the soles of my feet all the shut up waters.

the reeds

Isaiah 18:2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, and in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters. Go, ye swift angels, to a nation rent and torn in pieces: to a terrible people, after which there is no other: to a nation expecting and trodden underfoot, whose land the rivers have spoiled.

Exodus 2:3 And when she could hide him no longer, she took a basket made of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and pitch: and put the little babe therein, and laid him in the sedges by the river's brink,

Job 8:11 Can the rush be green without moisture? or sedge bush grow without water?

Context
An Oracle Concerning Egypt
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.7The channel of the river shall be laid bare from its fountain, and every thing sown by the water shall be dried up, it shall wither away, and shall be no more.…
Cross References
Genesis 41:2
Out of which came up seven kine, very beautiful and fat: and they fed in marshy places.

Exodus 2:3
And when she could hide him no longer, she took a basket made of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and pitch: and put the little babe therein, and laid him in the sedges by the river's brink,

Exodus 7:18
And the fishes that are in the river, shall die, and the waters shall be corrupted, and the Egyptians shall be afflicted when they drink the water of the river.

2 Kings 19:24
I have cut down, and I have drunk strange waters, and have dried up with the soles of my feet all the shut up waters.

Job 8:11
Can the rush be green without moisture? or sedge bush grow without water?

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 37:25
I have digged, and drunk water, and have dried up with the sole of my foot, all the rivers shut up in banks.

Nahum 3:8
Art thou better than the populous Alexandria, that dwelleth among the rivers? waters are round about it: the sea is its riches: the waters are its walls.

Lexicon
The canals
נְהָר֔וֹת (nə·hā·rō·wṯ)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5104: A stream, prosperity

will stink;
וְהֶאֶזְנִ֣יחוּ (wə·he·’ez·nî·ḥū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 2186: Reject, forsake, fail

the streams
יְאֹרֵ֣י (yə·’ō·rê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 2975: Nile -- a channel, a fosse, canal, shaft, the Nile, the Tigris

of Egypt
מָצ֑וֹר (mā·ṣō·wr)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4693: Egypt -- a country Southwest of the Red Sea

will trickle
דָּלֲל֥וּ (dā·lă·lū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 1809: To slacken, be feeble, to be oppressed

and dry up;
וְחָרְב֖וּ (wə·ḥā·rə·ḇū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 2717: To parch, to desolate, destroy, kill

the reeds
קָנֶ֥ה (qā·neh)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7070: A reed, a, rod, shaft, tube, stem, the radius, beam

and rushes
וָס֖וּף (wā·sūp̄)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5488: A reed, the papyrus

will wither.
קָמֵֽלוּ׃ (qā·mê·lū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 7060: To be decayed


Additional Translations
The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will trickle and dry up; the reeds and rushes will wither.And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defense shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.

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

And the streams shall fail, and the canals of the river; and every reservoir of water shall be dried up, in every marsh also of reed and papyrus.

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

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

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

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