⁵ The waters of the river will dry up,^(A)
    and the riverbed will be parched and dry.^(B)
6 The canals will stink;^(C)
    the streams of Egypt will dwindle and dry up.^(D)
The reeds^(E) and rushes will wither,^(F)
7     also the plants^(G) along the Nile,
    at the mouth of the river.
Every sown field^(H) along the Nile
    will become parched, will blow away and be no more.^(I)

¹⁰ The fields are ruined,
    the ground is dried up;^(A)
the grain is destroyed,
    the new wine^(B) is dried up,
    the olive oil fails.^(C)

¹¹ Despair, you farmers,^(D)
    wail, you vine growers;
grieve for the wheat and the barley,^(E)
    because the harvest of the field is destroyed.^(F)
12 The vine is dried up
    and the fig tree is withered;^(G)
the pomegranate,^(H) the palm and the apple^[a] tree—
    all the trees of the field—are dried up.^(I)
Surely the people’s joy
    is withered away.