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?"
12. Where are your wisemen now? Let them announce it to you, and let them reveal what the Lord of hosts intends for Egypt.
13. The leaders of Tanis have become foolish. The leaders of Memphis have decayed. They have deceived Egypt, the corner of its people.
14. The Lord has mixed a spirit of giddiness into its midst. And they have caused Egypt to err in all its works, like a drunken man who staggers and vomits.
15. And there will be no work for Egypt that would produce a head or a tail, one who bows down or one who refrains from bowing down.
16. In that day, Egypt will be like women, and they will be stupefied and fearful before the presence of the shaking hand of the Lord of hosts, the hand which he will move over them.
17. And the land of Judah will be a dread to Egypt. Everyone who thinks about it will be terrified before the presence of the plan of the Lord of hosts, the plan which he has decided concerning them.
18. In that day, there will be five cities in the land of Egypt which speak the language of Canaan, and which swear by the Lord of hosts. One will be called the City of the Sun.
19. In that day, there will be an altar of the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt and a monument of the Lord beside its borders.