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

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

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.

Tell them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: “‘Look, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster lying in the midst of its waterways, who has said, “My Nile is my own, I made it for myself.”