⁸ Are you better than No-amon, seated on the Nile streams, with waters all round her; whose wall was the sea and her earthwork the waters?

² Go on to Calneh and see; and from there go to Hamath the great; then go down to Gath of the Philistines: are you better than these kingdoms? or is your land wider than theirs?

¹⁴ And I will make Pathros a waste, and put a fire in Zoan, and send my punishments on No.

¹⁵ I will let loose my wrath on Sin, the strong place of Egypt, cutting off the mass of the people of No.

¹⁶ And I will put a fire in Egypt; Syene will be twisting in pain, and No will be broken into, as by the onrush of waters.

⁵ And the waters of the sea will be cut off, and the river will become dry and waste:

⁶ And the rivers will have an evil smell; the stream of Egypt will become small and dry: all the water-plants will come to nothing.

⁷ The grass-lands by the Nile, and everything planted by the Nile, will become dry, or taken away by the wind, and will come to an end.

⁸ The fishermen will be sad, and all those who put fishing-lines into the Nile will be full of grief, and those whose nets are stretched out on the waters will have sorrow in their hearts.

⁹ And all the workers in linen thread, and those who make cotton cloth, will be put to shame.

¹⁰ And the makers of twisted thread will be crushed, and those who ... will be sad in heart.

²⁵ The Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: See, I will send punishment on Amon of No and on Pharaoh and on those who put their faith in him;

²⁶ And I will give them up into the hands of those who will take their lives, and into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, and into the hands of his servants: and later, it will be peopled as in the past, says the Lord.

² Son of man, say to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and to his people; Whom are you like in your great power?

³ See, a pine-tree with beautiful branches and thick growth, giving shade and very tall; and its top was among the clouds.