1. On the twelfth day of the tenth month of the tenth year, the word of Adonai came to me saying:
2. “Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt. Prophesy against him and against all Egypt,
3. speak and say, thus says Adonai Elohim: ‘Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh King of Egypt, the great crocodile lying in his rivers, who says: “My Nile is my own —I made it for myself.”
4. I will put hooks in your jaws and make the fish of your streams stick to your scales. I will haul you up from within your rivers and all the fish of your streams will stick to your scales.
5. I will leave you in the desert —you and all the fish of your streams. You will fall on the open field. You will not be gathered or picked up. I will give you as food for the beasts of the earth and the birds of the sky.
6. Then all the inhabitants of Egypt will know that I am Adonai, because they were a staff of reed to the house of Israel.