5. I’ll cast you out into the wilderness, you and all the fish of your rivers. You’ll fall on the open field. You won’t be brought together, nor gathered. I have given you for food to the animals of the earth and to the birds of the sky.
6. All the inhabitants of Egypt will know that I am Yahweh, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.
7. When they took hold of you by your hand, you broke, and tore all their shoulders; and when they leaned on you, you broke, and paralyzed all of their thighs.”
8. Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Behold, I will bring a sword on you, and will cut off man and animal from you.