Isaiah 19:15 KJV — MannaFest

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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ASV

Neither shall there be for Egypt any work, which head or tail, palm-branch or rush, may do.

WEB

There is nothing Egypt can do— head or tail, palm or reed.

YLT

And there is no work to Egypt, That head or tail, branch or reed, may do.

DBT

Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, palm-branch or rush, may do.

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Isaiah 9:14
Therefore the Lord will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.
1 Thessalonians 4:11–12
And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
Habakkuk 3:17
Although 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:
Haggai 1:11
And 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.
Proverbs 14:23
In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.

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Psalms 128:2

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That at length God's holy religion should be brought into Egypt, and set up there, in part by the Jews that should flee thither for refuge, but more fully by the preachers of the gospel of Christ, through whose ministry churches should be planted in Egypt in the says of the Messiah (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Note, The flourishing of a kingdom depends much upon the industry of the people; and then things are likely to do well when all hands are at work, when the head and top-branch do not disdain to labour, and the labour of the tail and rush is not disdained.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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