Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.
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Gill's Exposition
Neither shall there be any work for Egypt,.... No trade or business to carry on; their rivers being dried up, there was no flax to work with, and fine linen was a principal commodity of Egypt; nor any…
Barnes' Notes
Neither shall there be any work - The sense is, that there shall be such discord that no man, whether a prince, a politician, or a priest, shall be able to give any advice, or form any plan for the…
Though the land of Egypt had of old been a house of bondage to the people of God, where they had been ruled with rigour, yet among the unbelieving Jews there still remained much of the humour of their…
Cambridge Bible
No concerted action is possible, and every proposal that is brought forward falls to the ground.
head and tail, palm-branch and rush, exactly as in ch. Isa 9:14.
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