paper reeds] A principall commoditie of Egypt; from whence other countries were for books and writings furnished. brooks] Heb. brook. the mouth] The spring-heads, where the water issueth out, as at a mouth: or, because few, or none such are in Egypt, Deuteronomy 1. 10, 11. the river-sides, or banks, which are to the river, as the lips to the mouth. and be no more] Heb. and shall not be Psalms 39:13.