The Dwellers on the Nile, Vol. 8
Or Chapters on the Life, Literature, History and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Dwellers on the Nile, Vol. 8: Or Chapters on the Life, Literature, History and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians<br><br>And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.<br><br>And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.<br><br>Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded.<br><br>And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish.<br><br>Surely the Princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings<br><br>The Princes of Zoan are become fools, the Princes of Noph are deceived.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.