5. And failed have waters from the sea, And a river is wasted and dried up.
6. And they have turned away the flowings, Weak and dried up have been brooks of the bulwark, Reed and flag have withered.
7. Exposed things by the brook, by the edge of the brook, And every sown thing of the brook, hath withered, It hath been driven away, and is not.
8. And lamented have the fishers, And mourned have all casting angle into a brook, And those spreading nets on the face of the waters have languished.
9. And ashamed have been makers of fine flax, And weavers of net-works.
10. And its foundations have been smitten, All making wages [are] afflicted in soul.
11. Only, fools [are] the princes of Zoan, The counsel of the wise ones of the counsellors of Pharaoh hath become brutish. How say ye unto Pharaoh, `A son of the wise am I, a son of kings of antiquity?'
12. Where [are] they now, thy wise ones? Yea, let them tell to thee, I pray thee, And they know what Jehovah of Hosts hath counselled against Egypt!
13. Foolish have been princes of Zoan, Lifted up have been princes of Noph, And they have caused Egypt to err, The chief of her tribes.
14. Jehovah hath mingled in her midst A spirit of perverseness, And they have caused Egypt to err in all its work, As a drunkard erreth in his vomit.
15. And there is no work to Egypt, That head or tail, branch or reed, may do.