⁸ It will pour into Judah,
flood over it, and sweep through,
reaching up to the neck;^(A)
and its flooded banks^[a]
will fill your entire land, Immanuel!^(B)

⁷ Who is this, rising like the Nile,^(A)
with waters that churn like rivers?
⁸ Egypt rises like the Nile,^(B)
and its waters churn like rivers.
He boasts, “I will go up, I will cover the earth;
I will destroy cities with their residents.”

⁴² The sea has risen over Babylon;^(A)
she is covered with its tumultuous waves.

²⁶ After those sixty-two weeks
the Anointed One will be cut off^(A)
and will have nothing.
The people of the coming ruler
will destroy the city^(B) and the sanctuary.^[a]
The^[b] end will come with a flood,^(C)
and until the end there will be^[c] war;
desolations are decreed.