19:6 The canals 1 will stink; 2
the streams of Egypt will trickle and then dry up;
the bulrushes and reeds will decay,
19:7 along with the plants by the mouth of the river. 3
All the cultivated land near the river
will turn to dust and be blown away. 4
19:8 The fishermen will mourn and lament,
all those who cast a fishhook into the river,
and those who spread out a net on the water’s surface will grieve. 5
1 tn Heb “rivers” (so KJV, ASV); NAB, CEV “streams”; TEV “channels.”
2 tn The verb form appears as a Hiphil in the Qumran scroll 1QIsaa; the form in MT may be a so-called “mixed form,” reflecting the Hebrew Hiphil stem and the functionally corresponding Aramaic Aphel stem. See HALOT 276 s.v. I זנח.
3 tn Heb “the plants by the river, by the mouth of the river.”
4 tn Heb “will dry up, [being] scattered, and it will vanish.”
5 tn Or perhaps, “will disappear”; cf. TEV “will be useless.”