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.