8. ‘All the bright lights of the heavens I shall make dark over you, and I shall bring darkness upon your land,’ declares the Master יהוה.
9. ‘And I shall trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I bring your destruction among the nations, into the lands which you have not known.
10. ‘And I shall make many peoples appalled at you, and their sovereigns shall be greatly afraid of you when I swing My sword before them. And they shall tremble continually, every man for his own life, in the day of your fall.’
11. “For thus said the Master יהוה, ‘The sword of the sovereign of Baḇel shall come upon you.
12. ‘By the swords of the mighty men, all of them the ruthless ones of the nations, I shall make your host fall. And they shall ravage the arrogance of Mitsrayim, and all its host shall be destroyed.
13. ‘And I shall destroy all its beasts from beside its great waters, and let the foot of man trouble them no more, nor let the hooves of beasts trouble them.
14. ‘Then I shall make their waters clear, and make their rivers run like oil,’ declares the Master יהוה.