1. On January 7, during the tenth year of King Jehoiachin’s captivity, this message came to me from the lord:
2. “Son of man, turn and face Egypt and prophesy against Pharaoh the king and all the people of Egypt.
3. Give them this message from the Sovereign lord:“I am your enemy, O Pharaoh, king of Egypt—you great monster, lurking in the streams of the Nile.For you have said, ‘The Nile River is mine;I made it for myself.’
4. I will put hooks in your jawsand drag you out on the landwith fish sticking to your scales.
5. I will leave you and all your fishstranded in the wilderness to die.You will lie unburied on the open ground,for I have given you as food to the wild animals and birds.
6. All the people of Egypt will know that I am the lord,for to Israel you were just a staff made of reeds.