5. The waters from the sea will dry up, and the river will be drained dry.
6. Then the channels will stink. The streams of Egypt will dwindle and dry up. Reeds and rushes will rot.
7. The bulrushes by the Nile, by the mouth of the Nile, and everything sown by the Nile will wither, blow away and be no more.
8. Then the fishermen will lament. All who cast hooks in the Nile will mourn, and those who spread nets on the waters will languish.
9. Moreover the workers of fine flax, and the weavers of white cloth will be ashamed.
10. Her pillars will be crushed, All hired workers will be grieved in soul.
11. The princes of Zoan are utter fools. Pharaoh’s wisest counselors are stupid. How can you say to Pharaoh, “I am the son of the wise, a son of ancient kings”?
12. Where then are your wise men? Let them tell you now! Let them know what Adonai-Tzva’ot has purposed against Egypt.
13. The princes of Zoan are fools. the princes of Noph are deceived. The cornerstone of her tribes have led Egypt astray.
14. Adonai has mixed within her a spirit of dizziness. They make Egypt stagger in every work, as a drunkard staggers in his vomit.
15. There will be no work for Egypt to do, for head or tail, palm branch or rush.
16. In that day Egypt will be like women trembling with fear, because of the shaking hand of Adonai-Tzva’ot, which He is about to wave over it.
17. The land of Judah will terrify Egypt. Anyone who mentions it will be afraid, because of what Adonai-Tzva’ot has surely purposed against it.