Bible Verses About Egypt: Failure of internal resources

The water will ebb from the sea, the river will be drained dry.

The rivers will become foul, the canals of Egypt's Nile will dwindle and dry up, the reeds and rushes will wither.

The river-plants on the banks of the Nile and everything sown near the Nile will dry up, blow away and be no more.

Fishermen too will lament, all who cast hooks in the Nile will mourn, those who spread nets on the water lose heart.

The linen-workers will be in despair, along with the weavers of white cotton;

the spinners will be crushed, the hired workers dejected.