3 Egypt’s spirit will fail from within;I will frustrate their plans.They will consult the idols and spiritsand ghosts and fortune-tellers.
4 I will hand Egypt over to a harsh master;a strong king will rule them, says the Lord God of heavenly forces.
5 The waters of the sea will dry up;the river will be parched and bare.
6 The rivers will stink;the streams will shrink and dry;reeds and rushes will decay.
7 Grass around the Nile, the grass at the mouth of the Nile,and all the sown land of the Nilewill dry up, blow away, and be no more.
8 Those who fish will lament;all who cast fishhooks in the Nile will mourn,and those who spread nets on the water will pine away.
9 Workers with flax will be dismayed;carders and weavers will grow pale.