along with the plants by the mouth of the river. All the cultivated land near the river will turn to dust and be blown away.

Daughter Tarshish, travel back to your land, as one crosses the Nile; there is no longer any marketplace in Tyre.

The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will trickle and then dry up; the bulrushes and reeds will decay,

the deep waters! Grain from the Shihor region, crops grown near the Nile she receives; she is the trade center of the nations.

I dug wells and drank water. With the soles of my feet I dried up all the rivers of Egypt.’

At that time the Lord will whistle for flies from the distant streams of Egypt and for bees from the land of Assyria.

The fishermen will mourn and lament, all those who cast a fishhook into the river, and those who spread out a net on the water’s surface will grieve.

Instead the Lord will rule there as our mighty king. Rivers and wide streams will flow through it; no war galley will enter; no large ships will sail through.