| Job 8:11 | Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water? |
| Isaiah 9:14 | Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day. |
| Isaiah 17:13 | The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but [God] shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind. |
| Isaiah 19:15 | Neither shall there be [any] work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do. |