4 The Egyptians I will give overinto the hand of a cruel lord,and a fierce king shall rule over them,says the Lord, the Lord of Hosts.
5 The waters from the sea shall dry up,and the river shall be parched and dry.
6 The canals shall emit a stench;the streams of Egypt shall diminish and dry up;the reeds and rushes shall wither.
7 The papyrus reeds by the brooks,by the mouth of the brooks,and everything sown by the brooks,shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.
8 The fishermen also shall mourn,and all those who cast a line into the brooks shall lament,and those who spread nets on the watersshall languish.
9 Moreover those who work with fine flaxand those who weave white cloth shall be humiliated;
10 and the pillars of Egypt shall be crushed.All the hired workers shall be grieved in soul.