Egypt's Gods, Politics, and Economy Collapse

The LORD rides toward Egypt, and the idols and the court both melt

The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it. I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.

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. And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts. Civil war, failed counsel, occult panic, and a hard ruler are Egypt's political collapse. Ancient Egypt is not a living people to demonize, and the cruel lord is not a model.

When the Nile fails, fisheries and weavers fail with it

And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up. They shall turn the rivers far away; the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither. 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. 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. Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded. And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish.

Egypt's gods, princes, and economy rest on the river. Dried channels silence anglers, net-spreaders, flax workers, and pond-makers. Comprehensive breakdown is the burden, not a license to starve a modern population or to treat Egyptian identity as this curse.