Isaiah 19:6

19:6 The canals will stink;

the streams of Egypt will trickle and then dry up;

the bulrushes and reeds will decay,

Isaiah 34:3

34:3 Their slain will be left unburied,

their corpses will stink;

the hills will soak up their blood.


tn Heb “rivers” (so KJV, ASV); NAB, CEV “streams”; TEV “channels.”

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.

tn Heb “will be cast aside”; NASB, NIV “thrown out.”

tn Heb “[as for] their corpses, their stench will arise.”

tn Heb “hills will dissolve from their blood.”