1. In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month, “the Lord’s word came to me, saying,
2. ‘Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and tell him,“You were likened to a young lion of the nations;yet you are as a monster in the seas.You broke out with your rivers,and troubled the waters with your feet,and fouled their rivers.”
3. Thus says the Lord GOD:“I will spread out my net on you with a company of many peoples;and they will bring you up in my net.
4. I will leave you on the land.I will cast you out on the open field,and will cause all the birds of the sky to settle on you.I will satisfy the animals of the whole earth with you.
5. I will lay your flesh on the mountains,and fill the valleys with your height.
6. I will also water the land in which you swim with your blood,even to the mountains.The watercourses will be full of you.
7. When I extinguish you, I will cover the heavensand make its stars dark.I will cover the sun with a cloud,and the moon won’t give its light.
8. I will make all the bright lights of the sky dark over you,and set darkness on your land,” says the Lord GOD.