And the rivers shall fail: the streams of the banks shall be diminished, and be dried up. The reed and the bulrush shall wither away.
Ibn Ezra
והאזניחו And shall leave.. א is epenthetic. והאזניחו נהרות And the people will leave the rivers. דללו They shall be poor. Comp. דל poor (Lev. 14:21). יאורי מצור The ponds of siege. The ponds which are prepared in order that the enemy should not be able to destroy the inhabitants through want of water, when he besieges the town. קנה וסוף The reeds and flags. The plants on the banks of the river. קמלו Shall be cut off. Another instance of the same root occurs in this book (33:9)
Hebrew and Aramaic words are the commentator’s citations of the sacred text; the English translation that follows each is the translator’s.
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