Isaiah 19:15

Isaiah 19:15 in 10 English translations. Each links through to the full chapter for context.

New International Version (NIV)

15There is nothing Egypt can do—

head or tail, palm branch or reed.

15There will be no work for Egypt

Which its head or tail, its palm branch or bulrush, may do.

15There will be no work for Egypt

Which head or tail, [high] palm branch or [low] bulrush, may do.

15There is nothing Egypt can do —

head or tail, palm or reed.

15Neither shall there be for Egypt any work, which head or tail, palm-branch or rush, may do.

15Neither shall there be any worke in Egypt, which the head may doe, nor the tayle, ye branch nor the rush.

15Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which head or tail, palm branch or rush, may do.

15No one in Egypt can do anything to help them.

Its elders and important leaders can’t help them.

Its prophets and priests can’t do anything.

Those who rule over others can’t help.

And those who bow down to them can’t help either.

15Nobody in Egypt will be able to do anything. They may be Egypt's head or its tail, a palm branch or a reed. There is nothing that anyone can do.

15And there is no work to Egypt, || That head or tail, branch or reed, may do.