1. On the first day of the twelfth month in the twelfth year, the word of the Lord came to me:
2. Son of man, utter a lament over Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and say to him:You liken yourself to a lion among nations,but you are like the monster in the sea!Thrashing about in your streams,churning the water with your feet,polluting the streams.
3. Thus says the Lord God:I will cast my net over youby assembling many armies,and I will hoist you up in my mesh.
4. I will hurl you onto the land,cast you into an open field.I will make all the birds of the skyroost upon you,The beasts of the whole earthgorge themselves on you.
5. I will strew your flesh on the mountains,and fill the valleys with your corpse.
6. I will drench the land,pouring out your blood on the mountain;filling up the ravines with you.
7. When I extinguish you,I will cover the heavensand darken all its stars.The sun I will cover with clouds;the moon will not give light.
8. All the shining lights in the heavensI will darken over you;I will spread darkness over your land—oracle of the Lord God.
9. I will trouble the heartsof many peoples,When I bring you captiveamong the nations,to lands you do not know.
10. I will fill many nations with horror;their kings will shudder at you,when I brandish my sword in their faces.They will tremble violentlyfearing for their lives on the day of your fall.
11. For thus says the Lord God:The sword of the king of Babylonwill come against you.
12. I will cut down your hordeswith the swords of warriors,all of them, ruthless nations;They will lay waste the glory of Egypt,and all its hordes will be destroyed.
13. I will wipe out all the livestockfrom the banks of its many waters;No human foot will disturb them again,no animal hoof stir them up.