The ^aburden of ^bEgypt. Behold, the Lord rideth upon a swift ^ccloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the ^didols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.

 2 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.

 3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to ^athem that have ^bfamiliar spirits, and to the wizards.

 4 And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of ^aa ^bcruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts.

 5 And the waters shall ^afail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and ^bdried up.

 6 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 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 The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast ^aangle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.

 9 Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave ^anetworks, shall be confounded.

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

 11 Surely the princes of ^aZoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?

 12 Where are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the Lord of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.

 13 The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of ^aNoph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the ^bstay of the tribes thereof.

 14 The Lord hath mingled a ^aperverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.

 15 Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which ^athe head or tail, branch or rush, may do.