⁵ The waters of the river will dry up,^(A)
    and the riverbed will be parched and dry.^(B)

¹⁶ This is what the Lord says—
    he who made a way through the sea,
    a path through the mighty waters,^(A)

²⁷ who says to the watery deep, ‘Be dry,
    and I will dry up^(A) your streams,’