Isaiah 19:15 - Compare All Versions

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

And there will be nothing for Egypt that head or tail, palm branch or reed, may do.

There is nothing Egypt can do. All are helpless— the head and the tail, the noble palm branch and the lowly reed.

No head or tail, palm or reed,  will be able to do anything for Egypt.

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

Neither will there be any work for Egypt, Which the head or tail, Palm branch or bulrush, may do.

The princes of Zoan are fools, the advisors of Pharaoh stupid. How could any of you dare tell Pharaoh, “Trust me: I’m wise. I know what’s going on. Why, I’m descended from the old wisdom of Egypt”? There’s not a wise man or woman left in the country. If there were, one of them would tell you what GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies has in mind for Egypt. As it is, the princes of Zoan are all fools and the princes of Memphis, idiots. The honored pillars of your society have led Egypt into detours and dead ends. GOD has scrambled their brains, Egypt’s become a falling-down-in-his-own-vomit drunk. Egypt’s hopeless, past helping, a senile, doddering old fool. * * *

There will be no work for Egypt Which its head or tail, its palm branch or bulrush, may do.

There will be no work for Egypt Which head or tail, [high] palm branch or [low] bulrush, may do.

Egypt will not be able to do a thing, head or tail, shoots and stalk.