6. and its canals will become foul,and the branches of Egypt’s Nile will diminish and dry up,reeds and rushes will rot away.
7. There will be bare places by the Nile,on the brink of the Nile,and all that is sown by the Nile will be parched,will be driven away, and will be no more.
8. The fishermen will mourn and lament,all who cast a hook in the Nile;and they will languishwho spread nets on the water.
9. The workers in combed flax will be in despair,and the weavers of white cotton.
10. Those who are the pillars of the land will be crushed,and all who work for pay will be grieved.
11. The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish;the wisest counselors of Pharaoh give stupid counsel.How can you say to Pharaoh,“I am a son of the wise,a son of ancient kings”?
12. Where then are your wise men?Let them tell youthat they might know what the Lord of hosts has purposed against Egypt.
13. The princes of Zoan have become fools,and the princes of Memphis are deluded;those who are the cornerstones of her tribeshave made Egypt stagger.
14. The Lord has mingled within her a spirit of confusion,and they will make Egypt stagger in all its deeds, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.
15. And there will be nothing for Egyptthat head or tail, palm branch or reed, may do.
16. In that day the Egyptians will be like women, and tremble with fear before the hand that the Lord of hosts shakes over them.