Isaiah 19:7

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

Key Reflection

In Isaiah 19:7, these verses symbolize the spiritual decay and political instability that will come upon Egypt. The drying up of rivers and withering of vegetation represent a loss of prosperity and fertility, mirroring the divine judgment and the disruption of Egypt's religious and social order.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

The paper reeds -(ערות‛ârôt). This is not the word which occurs inIsaiah 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 fromערה‛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. So Rosenmuller interprets it of the green pastures on the banks of the Nile; and the Hebrew commentators generally so understand it.

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