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And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
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And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.
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The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.
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The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that castangle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spreadnetsupon the waters shall languish.
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Moreover they that work in fineflax, and they that weavenetworks,[a] shall be confounded.
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And they shall be broken in the purposes[b] thereof, all that makesluices and ponds for fish.
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Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wisecounsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancientkings?
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Where are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.
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The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seducedEgypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.
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The LORD hath mingled a perverse[c]spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.
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Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail,branch or rush, may do.