A Lament over Pharaoh and Egypt

32 eIn the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me: 2 f“Son of man, graise a lamentation over hPharaoh king of Egypt and say to him:

“You consider yourself ia lion of the nations,

but you are like ja dragon kin the seas;

lyou burst forth in your rivers,

trouble the waters with your feet,

and foul their rivers.

3  Thus says the Lord God:

mI will throw my net over you

with a host of nmany peoples,

and othey will haul you up in my dragnet.

4  And pI will cast you on the ground;

on the open field I will fling you,

and will cause all the birds of the heavens to settle on you,

and I will gorge the beasts of the whole earth with you.

5  I will strew your flesh qupon the mountains

and fill the valleys with your carcass.1

6  I will drench the land even to the mountains

with your flowing blood,

and the ravines will be full of you.

7  rWhen I blot you out, sI will cover the heavens

and 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 of heaven

will I make dark over you,

and tput darkness on your land,

declares the Lord God.