KJV King James Version
Neither shall there be [any] work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.
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Isaiah 19:15
Neither shall there be [any] work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
There is nothing Egypt can do—head or tail, palm or reed.
WEB World English Bible
Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which head or tail, palm branch or rush, may do.
ASV American Standard Version
Neither shall there be for Egypt any work, which head or tail, palm-branch or rush, may do.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And there is no work to Egypt, That head or tail, branch or reed, may do.
Surrounding context — Isaiah 19
12 Where [are] they? where [are] thy wise [men]? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.
13 The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, [even they that are] the stay of the tribes thereof.
14 The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken [man] staggereth in his vomit.
15 Neither shall there be [any] work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.
16 In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which he shaketh over it.
17 And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt, every one that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which he hath determined against it.
18 In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts; one shall be called, The city of destruction.
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Isaiah 9:14-15Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.Habakkuk 3:17Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither [shall] fruit [be] in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and [there shall be] no herd in the stalls:Proverbs 14:23In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips [tendeth] only to penury.Haggai 1:11And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon [that] which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.1 Thessalonians 4:11-12And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;Psalm 128:2For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy [shalt] thou [be], and [it shall be] well with thee.
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