5The waters of the Nile will dry up, and the riverbed will be parched and empty.
6The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will trickle and dry up; the reeds and rushes will wither.
7The bulrushes by the Nile, by the mouth of the river, and all the fields sown along the Nile, will wither, blow away, and be no more.
8Then the fishermen will mourn, all who cast a hook into the Nile will lament, and those who spread nets on the waters will pine away.
9The workers in flax will be dismayed, and the weavers of fine linen will turn pale.
10The workers in cloth will be dejected, and all the hired workers will be sick at heart.