Isaiah 19:7 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 19:7

The bulrushes by the Nile, by the mouth of the river, and all the fields sown along the Nile, will wither, blow away, and be no more.

BSB

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ASV

The meadows by the Nile, by the brink of the Nile, and all the sown fields of the Nile, shall become dry, be driven away, and be no more.

KJV

The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.

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Commentary

2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks,.... Not at the fountain or origin of the Nile and its streams, but by the sides thereof; on the banks of which grew a reed or rush, called by the Greeks "papyrus" and "biblus"; from whence come the words "paper" and "bible", or book, of which paper was anciently made; even as early as the times of Isaiah, and so, many hundreds of years before the times of Alexander the great, to which some fix the era of making it.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

The paper reeds - (ערות ‛ârôt). This is not the word which occurs in Isa 18:2, and which, it is supposed, means there the papyrus (see the note on that place). Interpreters have been divided in regard to the meaning of the word here. Gesenius derives it from ערה ‛ârâh, “to be naked, open, bare;” and supposes that it means an open place, a place naked of wood, and that it here denotes the pastures on the banks of the Nile.

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
עָר֥וֹת	a.Rot	reeds	H6169 →
עַל־	'al-	at	H5921 →
יְא֖וֹר	ye.'or	[the] River	H2975 →
עַל־	'al-	at	H5921 →
פִּ֣י	pi	[the] mouth of	H6310 →
יְא֑וֹר	ye.'or	[the] River	H2975 →
וְכֹל֙	ve.Khol	and all	H3605 →
מִזְרַ֣ע	miz.Ra'	[the] sown land of	H4218 →
יְא֔וֹר	ye.'or	[the] River	H2975 →
יִיבַ֥שׁ	yi.Vash	it will be dry	H3001 →
נִדַּ֖ף	ni.Daf	it will be driven about	H5086 →
וְאֵינֶֽנּוּ׃	ve.'ei.Ne.nu	and there not [will be] it	H369 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Isaiah 32:20
Blessed are those who sow beside abundant waters, who let the ox and donkey range freely.
leads to
- Ecclesiastes 11:1
  Cast your bread upon the waters, for after many days you will find it again.
- Isaiah 30:23–24
  Then He will send rain for the seed that you have sown in the ground, and the food that comes from your land will be rich and plentiful. On that day your cattle will…
- Isaiah 55:10–11
  For just as rain and snow fall from heaven and do not return without watering the earth, making it bud and sprout, and providing seed to sow and food to eat,
Through
Jeremiah 14:4
The ground is cracked because no rain has fallen on the land. The farmers are ashamed; they cover their heads.
leads to
- Joel 1:19–20
  To You, O LORD, I call, for fire has consumed the open pastures and flames have scorched all the trees of the field.
- Joel 1:11
  Be dismayed, O farmers, wail, O vinedressers, over the wheat and barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.
- Jeremiah 3:3
  Therefore the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute; you refuse to be ashamed.
- Leviticus 26:19–20
  I will break down your stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze,
Through
Ezekiel 19:13
Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.
leads to
- Hosea 2:3
  Otherwise, I will strip her naked and expose her like the day of her birth. I will make her like a desert and turn her into a parched land, and I will let her…

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