^{5 Ref} The waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and become dry.

^{6 Ref} The rivers shall become foul; the streams of Egypt shall be diminished and dried up; the reeds and flags shall wither away.

^{7 Ref} The meadows by the Nile, by the brink of the Nile, and all the sown fields of the Nile, shall become dry, be driven away, and be no more.

^{8 Ref} The fishermen shall lament, and all those who cast angle into the Nile shall mourn, and those who spread nets on the waters shall languish.

^{9 Ref} Moreover those who work in combed flax, and those who weave white cloth, shall be confounded.

^{10 Ref} The pillars [of Egypt] shall be broken in pieces; all those who work for hire [shall be] grieved in soul.