1. The burden of Egypt. Behold, the Lord will ascend upon a lofty cloud, and he will enter into Egypt, and the false images of Egypt will be moved before his face, and the heart of Egypt will waste away in its midst.
2. And I will cause Egyptian to rush against Egyptian. And they will fight: a man against his brother, and a man against his friend, city against city, kingdom against kingdom.
3. And the spirit of Egypt will be ruptured to its very core. And I will cast down their plan violently. And they will seek answers from their false images, and their diviners, and those led by demons, and their seers.
4. And I will deliver Egypt into the hand of cruel masters, and a strong king will dominate them, says the Lord, the God of hosts.
5. And the waters of the sea will dry up, and the river will be desolate and dry.
6. And the rivers will fail. The streams of its banks will diminish and dry up. The reed and the bulrush will wither away.
7. The channel of the river will be stripped down to its source, and everything irrigated by it will dry up and wither and be no more.
8. And the fishermen will grieve. And all who cast a hook into the river will mourn. And those who cast a net upon the surface of its waters will languish.
9. Those who work with linen, combing and weaving fine textiles, will be confounded.
10. And its irrigated places will begin to fail, with all those who make pools to take fish.
11. The leaders of Tanis are foolish. The wise counselors of Pharaoh have given foolish counsel. How can you say to Pharaoh: "I am the son of wisemen, the son of the kings of antiquity?"