1 Behold, the Lord rideth upon a swift cloud, and cometh to Egypt; and the false gods of Egypt shall shake at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.

2 And I will stir up Egypt against Egypt, and they shall ﬁght everyone against his brother, and everyone against his neighbour; city against city, kingdom against kingdom.

3 And the spirit of Egypt shall be made empty in the midst of it; and I will swallow up the counsel thereof; and they shall inquire of the false gods, and the mutterers, and them that have familiar spirits, and the wizards.

4 And I will confine Egypt into the hand of a hard lord; and a harsh king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the Lord of Hosts.

5 And the waters shall waste fromthe sea, and the river shall be parched and dried up.

6 And the rivers shall stink, the canals of Mazor are emptied and parched up ; reed and ﬂag wither.

7 The meadows by the Nile, by the brink of the Nile, and every sown ﬁeld by the Nile, shall dry up, be driven away, and be no more.

8 And the ﬁshers shall sigh, and all they that cast angle into the Nile shall mourn, and they that spread nets upon the face of the waters shall languish.

9 And they that work combed ﬂax, and they that weave white cloth, shall be ashamed.

6. ‘canals’: lit. Niles (Nile-arms): Mazor, a rare singular form of Mizraim, Egypt: the word prob. meaning ‘fortiﬁcation.’

10 And her pillars shall be broken in pieces ; all that work for hire (shall be) grieved in soul.

11 Merely fools are the princes of Zoanf as for the wise counsellors of Pharaoh, counsel is become brutish; how can ye say unto Pharaoh, I am a son of the wise, a son of ancient kings?