15 Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.
15 There is nothing Egypt can do- head or tail, palm branch or reed.
15 And there will be nothing for Egypt that head or tail, palm branch or reed, may do.
15 Egypt's hopeless, past helping, a senile, doddering old fool.
15 Neither will there be any work for Egypt, Which the head or tail, Palm branch or bulrush, may do.
15 There is nothing Egypt can do. All are helpless- the head and the tail, the noble palm branch and the lowly reed.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Isaiah 19:15
Commentary on Isaiah 19:1-17
(Read Isaiah 19:1-17)
God shall come into Egypt with his judgments. He will raise up the causes of their destruction from among themselves. When ungodly men escape danger, they are apt to think themselves secure; but evil pursues sinners, and will speedily overtake them, except they repent. The Egyptians will be given over into the hand of one who shall rule them with rigour, as was shortly after fulfilled. The Egyptians were renowned for wisdom and science; yet the Lord would give them up to their own perverse schemes, and to quarrel, till their land would be brought by their contests to become an object of contempt and pity. He renders sinners afraid of those whom they have despised and oppressed; and the Lord of hosts will make the workers of iniquity a terror to themselves, and to each other; and every object around a terror to them.