Job 8:11

I have dug and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt.”

that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus on the waters, saying, “Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide!”

The rivers will become foul. The streams of Egypt will be diminished and dried up. The reeds and flags will wither away.

Make a ship of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ship, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.

They said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.

Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and some fell there. Those who remained fled to the hills.

Behold, seven cattle came up out of the river. They were sleek and fat, and they fed in the marsh grass.

Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.”

When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank.

The fish that are in the river will die and the river will become foul. The Egyptians will loathe to drink water from the river.” ’ ”

I have dug and drunk strange waters, and I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt with the sole of my feet.”

For the waters of Nimrim will be desolate; for the grass has withered away, the tender grass fails, there is no green thing.

The burning sand will become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water. Grass with reeds and rushes will be in the habitation of jackals, where they lay.

Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, “Arise and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.”

Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.

The same took advantage of our race, and mistreated our fathers, and forced them to throw out their babies, so that they wouldn’t stay alive.