“And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.”
And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up—the drying up of the Nile River, which is the lifeblood of Egyptian civilization. The failure of water suggests the loss of agricultural sustenance. This verse uses the failure of water as a symbol of Egypt's ruin.
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