<p class="poetry">along with the plants by the mouth of the river.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">All the cultivated land near the riverp> <p class="poetry">will turn to dust and be blown away.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Daughter Tarshish, travel back to your land, as one crosses the Nile;p> <p class="poetry">there is no longer any marketplace in Tyre.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">The canals<n id="1" /> will stink;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">the streams of Egypt will trickle and then dry up;p> <p class="poetry">the bulrushes and reeds will decay,p>

the deep waters!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Grain from the Shihor region,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">crops grown near the Nile<n id="3" /> she receives;<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">she is the trade center<n id="5" /> of the nations.p>

<p class="poetry">I dug wellsp> <p class="poetry">and drank water.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">With the soles of my feet I dried upp> <p class="poetry">all the rivers of Egypt.&#8217;p>

<p class="bodytext">At that time<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> will whistle for flies from the distant streams of Egypt and for bees from the land of Assyria.<n id="2" />

<p class="poetry">The fishermen will mourn and lament,p> <p class="poetry">all those who cast a fishhook into the river,p> <p class="poetry">and those who spread out a net on the water&#8217;s surface will grieve.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Instead the <sc>Lordsc> will rule there as our mighty king.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Rivers and wide streams will flow through it;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">no war galley will enter;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">no large ships will sail through.<n id="4" />p>