And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all that is in it, by the hand of strangers: I the LORD have spoken it.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Dry. The canals were obstructed (Calmet) which rendered cavalry useless. (Herodotus ii. 108.)