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 or gathered.I have given you for food to the animals of the earthand to the birds of the sky.
6. “‘“All the inhabitants of Egypt will know that I am the Lord, 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. When they leaned on you, you broke, and paralysed all of their thighs.”
8. “‘Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: “Behold, I will bring a sword on you, and will cut off man and animal from you.
9. The land of Egypt will be a desolation and a waste. Then they will know that I am the Lord.“‘“Because he has said, ‘The river is mine, and I have made it;’
10. therefore, behold, I am against you, and against your rivers. I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from the tower of Seveneh even to the border of Ethiopia.