Can the papyrus plant grow tall ¹  where there is no marsh? Can reeds flourish ²  without water?

But when she was no longer able to hide him, she took a papyrus basket ¹  for him and sealed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and set it among the reeds along the edge of the Nile. ² 

that sends messengers by sea, who glide over the water’s surface in boats made of papyrus. Go, you swift messengers, to a nation of tall, smooth-skinned people, ¹  to a people that are feared far and wide, ²  to a nation strong and victorious, ³  whose land rivers divide. ⁴ 

The dry soil will become a pool of water, the parched ground springs of water. Where jackals once lived and sprawled out, grass, reeds, and papyrus will grow.

They glide by ¹  like reed ²  boats, like an eagle that swoops ³  down on its prey. ⁴ 

along with the plants by the mouth of the river. ¹  All the cultivated land near the river will turn to dust and be blown away. ²