Holy Scripture

Isaiah 19:5

A church father on this verse
“(Verses 5-7) And the water of the sea shall dry up, and the river shall be desolate and dry, and the streams shall diminish and dry up the water-courses. The reed and the rush shall wither, the channel of the river shall be laid bare and all the irrigated seed shall dry up, wither, and not exist. It is natural that wh…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Isaiah

Source: Septuagint

Original

5And the Egyptians shall drink the water that is by the sea, but the river shall fail, and be dried up.

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3And the spirit of the Egyptians shall be troubled within them; and I will frustrate their counsel: and they shall inquire of their gods and their images, and them that speak out of the earth, and them that have in them a divining spirit.

4And I will deliver Egypt into the hands of men, of cruel lords; and cruel kings shall rule over them: thus saith the Lord of hosts.

— Isaiah 19:5 —

6And 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.

7And all the green herbage round about the river, and everything sown by the side of the river, shall be blasted with the wind and dried up.

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