fail. be dried up. Hebrew. nashath. Occurs only here in "former" portion, and only in Isaiah 41:17 in the "latter" portion. Elsewhere only in Jeremiah 51:30. App-79.
the river: i.e. the Nile.
Related Commentaries of Isaiah 19:5
Isaiah 19:5
5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.