7. All the greenery along the riverbankand all the crops along the riverwill dry up and blow away.
8. The fishermen will lament for lack of work.Those who cast hooks into the Nile will groan,and those who use nets will lose heart.
9. There will be no flax for the harvesters,no thread for the weavers.
10. They will be in despair,and all the workers will be sick at heart.
11. What fools are the officials of Zoan!Their best counsel to the king of Egypt is stupid and wrong.Will they still boast to Pharaoh of their wisdom?Will they dare brag about all their wise ancestors?
12. Where are your wise counselors, Pharaoh?Let them tell you what God plans,what the lord of Heaven’s Armies is going to do to Egypt.
13. The officials of Zoan are fools,and the officials of Memphis are deluded.The leaders of the peoplehave led Egypt astray.
14. The lord has sent a spirit of foolishness on them,so all their suggestions are wrong.They cause Egypt to staggerlike a drunk in his vomit.
15. There is nothing Egypt can do.All are helpless—the head and the tail,the noble palm branch and the lowly reed.