1. On the first day of the twelfth month of the twelfth year, the word of Adonai came to me saying:
2. “Son of man, lift up a lament for Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: ‘You compare yourself to a young lion of the nations, but you are a crocodile in the waters. You thrash about in your rivers and muddy the water with your feet and foul their streams.’”
3. Thus says Adonai Elohim: “I will throw My net over you with a host of many peoples. They will haul you up in My net.
4. I will leave you on the land. I will hurl you on an open field. I will cause all the birds of the sky to settle upon you. I will gorge the beasts of the whole earth with you.