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and the rivers shall stink, and the streams of Egypt shall be diminished and drain away: the reeds and sedges shall wither.

The meadows by the Nile, on the banks of the Nile, and everything sown by the Nile, shall be dried up, be driven away, and be no [more].

And the fishers shall mourn, and all they that cast fish-hook into the Nile shall lament, and they that spread net upon the waters shall languish.

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The canals will stink;(A)
    the streams of Egypt will dwindle and dry up.(B)
The reeds(C) and rushes will wither,(D)
    also the plants(E) along the Nile,
    at the mouth of the river.
Every sown field(F) along the Nile
    will become parched, will blow away and be no more.(G)
The fishermen(H) will groan and lament,
    all who cast hooks(I) into the Nile;
those who throw nets on the water
    will pine away.

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