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Isaiah 19:15
Isaiah 19:15 is verse 15 of Isaiah chapter 19, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
There is nothing Egypt can do— head or tail, palm or reed.
King James Version
Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.
World English Bible
Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which head or tail, palm branch or rush, may do.
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Isaiah 19:13–17 · Berean Standard Bible
13 The princes of Zoan have become fools; the princes of Memphis are deceived. The cornerstones of her tribes have led Egypt astray.
14 The LORD has poured into her a spirit of confusion. Egypt has been led astray in all she does, as a drunkard staggers through his own vomit.
15 There is nothing Egypt can do— head or tail, palm or reed.
16 In that day the Egyptians will be like women. They will tremble with fear beneath the uplifted hand of the LORD of Hosts, when He brandishes it against them.
17 The land of Judah will bring terror to Egypt; whenever Judah is mentioned, Egypt will tremble over what the LORD of Hosts has planned against it.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Isaiah 9:14So the LORD will cut off Israel’s head and tail, both palm branch and reed in a single day.
Isaiah 9:15The head is the elder and honorable man, and the tail is the prophet who teaches lies.
Psalms 128:2For when you eat the fruit of your labor, blessings and prosperity will be yours.
Proverbs 14:23There is profit in all labor, but mere talk leads only to poverty.
Habakkuk 3:17Though the fig tree does not bud and no fruit is on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though the sheep are cut off from the fold and no cattle are in the stalls,
Haggai 1:11I have summoned a drought on the fields and on the mountains, on the grain, new wine, and oil, and on whatever the ground yields, on man and beast, and on all the labor of your hands.”
1 Thessalonians 4:11and to aspire to live quietly, to attend to your own matters, and to work with your own hands, as we instructed you.
1 Thessalonians 4:12Then you will behave properly toward outsiders, without being dependent on anyone.