1. In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month, “the Lord’s word came to me, saying,
2. ‘Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and tell him,“You were likened to a young lion of the nations;yet you are as a monster in the seas.You broke out with your rivers,and troubled the waters with your feet,and fouled their rivers.”
3. Thus says the Lord GOD:“I will spread out my net on you with a company of many peoples;and they will bring you up in my net.