1. In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first of the month, the word of the Lord came to me saying,
2. "Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him, 'You compared yourself to a young lion of the nations, Yet you are like the monster in the seas; And you burst forth in your rivers And muddied the waters with your feet And fouled their rivers.'"