Reeds

…when seven cows, sleek and well-fed, came up from the river and began to graze among the reeds.

…when seven cows, well-fed and sleek, came up from the river and began to graze among the reeds.

But when she could no longer hide him, she got him a papyrus basket and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in the basket and set it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.

Soon the daughter of Pharaoh went down to bathe in the Nile, and her attendants were walking along the riverbank. And when she saw the basket among the reeds, she sent her maidservant to retrieve it.

Does papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Do reeds flourish without water?

He lies under the lotus plants, hidden among the reeds of the marsh.

Smoke billows from his nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.

Rebuke the beast in the reeds, the herd of bulls among the calves of the nations, until it submits, bringing bars of silver. Scatter the nations who delight in war.

The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will trickle and dry up; the reeds and rushes will wither.

The parched ground will become a pool, the thirsty land springs of water. In the haunt where jackals once lay, there will be grass and reeds and papyrus.

Then all the people of Egypt will know that I am the LORD. For you were only a staff of reeds to the house of Israel.