Commentary for Isaiah 19:6
וְהֶאֶזְנִ֣יחוּ נְהָר֔וֹת דָּלֲל֥וּ וְחָרְב֖וּ יְאֹרֵ֣י מָצ֑וֹר קָנֶ֥ה וָס֖וּף קָמֵֽלוּ׃
And the rivers shall become foul; The streams of Egypt shall be minished and dried up; The reeds and flags shall wither.
Rashi on Isaiah
And they shall abandon When the water decreases, the mud is noticeable in it, and it becomes a mire and is abandoned.
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Ibn Ezra on Isaiah
והאזניחו And shall leave.5A. V., And they shall turn far away.. א is epenthetic. והאזניחו נהרות And the people will leave the rivers.6They will leave the rivers, on the fruitful banks of which they had settled, because they are now barren and waste.
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Ibn Ezra on Isaiah
דללו They shall be poor.7A. V., Shall be emptied. Comp. דל poor (Lev. 14:21).
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