Discovery BoxIsaiah 19:5-6 
Context19:5 The water of the sea will be dried up,
and the river will dry up and be empty. 1
19:6 The canals 2 will stink; 3
the streams of Egypt will trickle and then dry up;
the bulrushes and reeds will decay,
Isaiah 35:1
Context35:1 Let the desert and dry region be happy; 4
let the wilderness 5 rejoice and bloom like a lily!
1 tn Heb “will dry up and be dry.” Two synonyms are joined for emphasis.
2 tn Heb “rivers” (so KJV, ASV); NAB, CEV “streams”; TEV “channels.”
3 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.
4 tn The final mem (ם) on the verb יְשֻׂשׂוּם (yÿsusum) is dittographic (note the initial mem on the following noun מִדְבָּר [midbar]). The ambiguous verbal form is translated as a jussive because it is parallel to the jussive form תָגֵל (tagel). The jussive is used rhetorically here, not as a literal command or prayer.
5 tn Or “Arabah” (NASB); NAB, NIV, TEV “desert.”
