1. In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2. Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: You likened yourself to a young lion of the nations,but you are as the monster in the seas;and you burst forth in your rivers,and muddied the waters with your feet,and made foul their rivers.
3. Thus says the Lord God: I will therefore spread out My net over youwith a company of many peoples,and they shall bring you up in My net.
4. Then I will leave you upon the land;I will cast you out on the open field,and I will cause all the fowl of the heavens to remain upon you.And I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with you.
5. I will lay your flesh upon the mountains,and fill the valleys with your refuse.
6. I will also water the land with your blood,as far as the mountains;and the rivers shall be full of you.
7. When I put you out, I will cover the heavensand make their stars dark;I will cover the sun with a cloud,and the moon shall not give its light.
8. All the bright lights in the heavensI will make dark over you,and set darkness upon your land,says the Lord God.