"Who has measured the waters of the sea in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens by the width of his hand? Who has enclosed the dust of the earth in a measuring bowl, or weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance?

And I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness the plumb line; hail will sweep away your refuge of lies, and floods will overflow your hiding place.

"But hawks and hedgehogs will possess it; owls and ravens will nest in it. God will stretch out over it a measuring line, and chaos, and plumb lines of emptiness, and its nobles.

It is he who has allotted their portions, and his hand has divided it for them with a measuring line forever. They will possess it forever; from generation to generation they will live in it."

So the LORD has cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed in a single day

As a result, there will be nothing for Egypt that head or tail, palm branch or reed, can do.

Take note: you're relying on Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff, which pierces the palm of anyone who leans on it. This is what Pharaoh king of Egypt is like to everybody who depends on him!

A crushed reed he will not break, and a fading candle he won't snuff out. He'll bring forth justice for the truth.

Measure by measure, in their exile you contended with them; with his fierce blast he removed them, as on a day when the east wind blows.