1. In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:
2. “Son of man, raise a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him:“You consider yourself a lion of the nations,but you are like a dragon in the seas; you burst forth in your rivers,trouble the waters with your feet,and foul their rivers.
3. Thus says the Lord God: I will throw my net over youwith a host of many peoples,and they will haul you up in my dragnet.
4. And I will cast you on the ground;on the open field I will fling you,and will cause all the birds of the heavens to settle on you,and I will gorge the beasts of the whole earth with you.
5. I will strew your flesh upon the mountainsand fill the valleys with your carcass.
6. I will drench the land even to the mountainswith your flowing blood,and the ravines will be full of you.
7. When I blot you out, I will cover the heavensand make their stars dark;I will cover the sun with a cloud,and the moon shall not give its light.
8. All the bright lights of heavenwill I make dark over you,and put darkness on your land,declares the Lord God.
9. “I will trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries that you have not known.
10. I will make many peoples appalled at you, and the hair of their kings shall bristle with horror because of you, when I brandish my sword before them. They shall tremble every moment, every one for his own life, on the day of your downfall.