⁶ The rivers will turn foul;
The brooks ^(A)of defense will be emptied and dried up;
The reeds and rushes will wither.

²⁵ I have dug and drunk water,
And with the soles of my feet I have dried up
All the brooks of ^[a]defense.’

²⁴ I have dug and drunk strange water,
And with the soles of my feet I have ^(A)dried up
All the brooks of defense.”

² Which sends ambassadors by sea,
Even in vessels of reed on the waters, saying,
“Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth of skin,
To a people terrible from their beginning onward,
A nation powerful and treading down,
Whose land the rivers divide.”

⁶ For the waters ^(A)of Nimrim will be desolate,
For the green grass has withered away;
The grass fails, there is nothing green.