3 And the ruach Mitzrayim shall be disheartened within him; and I will frustrate the etzah thereof; and they shall consult the elilim (idols, false g-ds), and to the ittim (sorcerers, necromancers), and to the ovot (mediums with familiar spirits), and to the wizards.
4 And the Mitzrayim will I give over into the yad adonim kasheh (power of hard taskmasters); and a fierce melech shall rule over them, saith HaAdon Hashem Tzva'os.
5 And the mayim shall roll back from the yam, and the Nile shall be parched and dried up.
6 And the neharot (streams, canals) shall turn foul; and the moats shall be emptied and dried up; the reeds and rushes shall wither.
7 The bare places by the Nile, by the mouth of the Nile, and everything sown by the Nile, shall wither, be blown away, v'einenu (and be no more).
8 The dayagim (fishermen) also shall mourn, and all they that cast hooks into the Nile shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the mayim shall languish.
9 Moreover they that work in pishtan (flax), and they that weave fine linen, shall be in despair.