Tafsiran Yesaya 19:6: Rashi & Ibn Ezra

And they shall abandon When the water decreases, the mud is noticeable in it, and it becomes a mire and is abandoned.

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.

דללו They shall be poor.⁷A. V., Shall be emptied. Comp. דל poor (Lev. 14:21).

the deep canals Heb. יְאֹרֵי מָצוֹר. The deep canals, like the ditches of the sieges of cities. [Rashi according to Parshandatha. Printed editions read:] In the ditches of the sieges of cities.

reeds and rushes that grew there because of their abundant water.

shall be cut off When the canals dry up, the reeds stop growing, and they dry up and fall. Jonathan renders: Shall not come up. Elsewhere (infra 33:9), he renders: “The Lebanon was dried up, cut off (קָמַל),” as ‘fell.’ I say, however, that it is an expression of cutting off, that they are cut off by themselves because of their dryness, and they fall.