1. And it came to be in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first of the month, that the word of יהוה came to me, saying,
2. “Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh sovereign of Mitsrayim, and you shall say to him, ‘You were like a young lion among the nations, and you are like a monster in the seas, and you burst forth in your rivers, and trouble the waters with your feet, and muddy their rivers.’