⁶ The canals will stink;^(A)
    the streams of Egypt will dwindle and dry up.^(B)
The reeds^(C) and rushes will wither,^(D)

²⁵ I have dug wells in foreign lands^[a]
    and drunk the water there.
With the soles of my feet
    I have dried up^(A) all the streams of Egypt.^(B)’

¹¹ Can papyrus grow tall where there is no marsh?^(A)
    Can reeds^(B) thrive without water?

²⁴ I have dug wells in foreign lands
    and drunk the water there.
With the soles of my feet
    I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”

Go, swift messengers,
to a people tall and smooth-skinned,^(C)
    to a people feared far and wide,
an aggressive^(D) nation of strange speech,
    whose land is divided by rivers.^(E)

⁶ The waters of Nimrim are dried up^(A)
    and the grass is withered;^(B)
the vegetation is gone^(C)
    and nothing green is left.^(D)