⁶ and its canals will become foul,
    and the branches of Egypt's Nile will diminish and dry up,
    reeds and rushes will rot away.

²⁵ I dug wells
    and drank waters,
to dry up with the sole of my foot
    all ^(A)the streams ^(B)of Egypt.

²⁴ I dug wells
    and drank foreign waters,
and I dried up with the sole of my foot
    all the streams ^(A)of Egypt.’

² which ^(A)sends ambassadors by the sea,
    in vessels of papyrus on the waters!
Go, you swift messengers,
    to a nation ^(B)tall and smooth,
to a people feared near and far,
    a nation ^(C)mighty and conquering,
    whose land the rivers divide.

⁶ the waters of ^(A)Nimrim
    are a desolation;
the grass is withered, the vegetation fails,
    the greenery is no more.