⁷ There will be bare places by the Nile,
    on the brink of the Nile,
and all that is sown by the Nile will be parched,
    will be driven away, and will be no more.

^13 (A)Now it is planted in the wilderness,
    in a dry and thirsty land.

⁴ Because of the ground that is dismayed,
    since there is ^(A)no rain on the land,
the farmers are ashamed;
    they cover their heads.

^20 (A)Happy are you who sow beside all waters,
    who let the feet of the ox and the donkey range free.

³ And on many waters
your revenue was the grain of Shihor,
    the harvest of the Nile;
    you were ^(A)the merchant of the nations.