These are Yahweh's words about Egypt. ## I will make the rivers into dry ground ## "I will dry up the rivers of Egypt" ## I will sell the land into the hand of wicked men ## Yahweh will give the Babylonians control over Egypt just as a person who sells something gives the one who buys it control over that thing. Alternate translation: "I will give control of the land to wicked men." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]]) ## I will make the land and its fullness desolate by the hand of strangers ## "I will cause people from another nation to destroy the land and everything in it" ## its fullness ## "everything in the land"