King James Version

Isaiah 19:5

And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.

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וְנִשְּׁתוּvenishtvand be ashamedיָבֵשׁconjunction, verb, niphal, sequential perfect, 3rd person, common, plural — “and be ashamed”, a completed action in a sequenceH3001to be ashamed, confused or disappointed; also (as failing) to dry up (as water) or wither (as herbage)be ashamed, clean, be confounded, (make) dry (up), (do) shame(-fully), [idiom] utterly, wither (away).מַ֖יִםmayimwaterמַיִםnoun, common, masculine, plural, absolute — “water”, the ordinary formH4325water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen[phrase] piss, wasting, water(-ing, (-course, -flood, -spring)).מֵֽהַיָּ֑םmehayamfrom the seaיָםpreposition, definite article, noun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “from the sea”, the ordinary formH3220a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water; specifically (with the article), the Mediterranean Sea; sometimes a large river, or an artifical basin; locally, the west, or (rarely) the southsea ([idiom] -faring man, (-shore)), south, west (-ern, side, -ward).וְנָהָ֖רvenaharand floodנָהָרconjunction, noun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “and flood”, the ordinary formH5104a stream (including the sea; expectation the Nile, Euphrates, etc.); figuratively, prosperityflood, river.יֶחֱרַ֥בyecheravdesolateחָרַבverb, qal, imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular — “desolate”, an unfinished actionH2717to parch (through drought) i.e. (by analogy,) to desolate, destroy, killdecay, (be) desolate, destroy(-er), (be) dry (up), slay, [idiom] surely, (lay, lie, make) waste.וְיָבֵֽשׁveyaveshand failנָשַׁתconjunction, verb, qal, sequential perfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular — “and fail”, a completed action in a sequenceH5405properly, to eliminate, i.e. (intransitively) to dry upfail.

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be drained dry,

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American Standard Version (1901)

And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and become dry.

Young’s Literal Translation

And failed have waters from the sea, And a river is wasted and dried up.

World English Bible

The waters will fail from the sea, and the river will be wasted and become dry.

Darby Translation

And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up;

Douay-Rheims

And the water of the sea shall be dried up, and the river shall be wasted and dry.

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be drained dry,

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

And the Egyptians shall drink the water that is by the sea, but the river shall fail, and be dried up.

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

Καὶ πίονται οἱ Αἰγύπτιοι ὕδωρ τὸ παρὰ θάλασσαν, ὁ δὲ ποταμὸς ἐκλείψει, καὶ ξηρανθήσεται.