^{4 Ref} And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts.

^{5 Ref} And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.

^{6 Ref} And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.

^{7 Ref} The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.

^{8 Ref} The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.

^{9 Ref} Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded.

^{10 Ref} And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish.