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The rivers and canals will stink.
The streams in the Nile delta[a] will run low and dry up.
Reeds and rushes will wither away.
The plants that grow beside the Nile, at the mouth of the Nile,
and all the crops planted along the Nile will dry up.
They will blow away and vanish.
The fishermen will mourn.
All those who cast hooks into the Nile will lament,
and those who spread nets on the waters will grieve.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 19:6 The Hebrew word for Egypt is usually a dual form, indicating two distinct parts, Upper and Lower Egypt, but here it is singular. It probably refers to lower (that is, northern) Egypt, also known as the Delta, which has many branches of the Nile.

The canals will stink;(A)
    the streams of Egypt will dwindle and dry up.(B)
The reeds(C) and rushes will wither,(D)
    also the plants(E) along the Nile,
    at the mouth of the river.
Every sown field(F) along the Nile
    will become parched, will blow away and be no more.(G)
The fishermen(H) will groan and lament,
    all who cast hooks(I) into the Nile;
those who throw nets on the water
    will pine away.

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