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The waters of the Nile will fail to rise and flood the fields.
    The riverbed will be parched and dry.

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The Lord’s Vengeance on Babylon

36 This is what the Lord says to Jerusalem:

“I will be your lawyer to plead your case,
    and I will avenge you.
I will dry up her river,
    as well as her springs,

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12 I will dry up the Nile River
    and sell the land to wicked men.
I will destroy the land of Egypt and everything in it
    by the hands of foreigners.
    I, the Lord, have spoken!

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18 If the people of Egypt refuse to attend the festival, the Lord will punish[a] them with the same plague that he sends on the other nations who refuse to go.

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Footnotes

  1. 14:18 As in some Hebrew manuscripts and Greek and Syriac versions; Masoretic Text reads will not punish.

11 They will pass safely through the sea of distress,[a]
    for the waves of the sea will be held back,
    and the waters of the Nile will dry up.
The pride of Assyria will be crushed,
    and the rule of Egypt will end.

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Footnotes

  1. 10:11 Or the sea of Egypt, referring to the Red Sea.

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