“The rivers will become foul. The streams of Egypt will be diminished and dried up. The reeds and flags will wither away.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Isaiah 19 contains 25 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.