⁶ its canals will become foul,
    and the branches of Egypt’s Nile will diminish and dry up.
Reeds and rushes will rot away,^(A)

²⁵ I dug wells
    and drank waters;
I dried up with the sole of my foot
    all the streams of Egypt.’

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

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

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