Ezekiel 29:1–5

Yahweh’s Judgment upon Egypt

29 In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the ⌊twelfth⌋a day of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me, ⌊saying⌋,b 2 “Son of man,c set your face against Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and prophesy against him and against Egypt, all of it. 3 Speak, and you must say, ‘thus says the Lord Yahweh:

“Look! I am against you,

Pharaoh, king of Egypt,

the great sea monster,

the one lying down

in the midst of his Nile streams,

who says to me, “It is my Nile, and I made it for myself.”d

4 And so I will put hooks in your jawbones,

and I will make the fish of your Nile streams stick to your scales,

and I will bring you up from the midst of your Nile streams,

and all of the fish of your Nile streams which cling to your scales.

5 And I will fling you to the desert,

you and all the fish of your Nile streams.

On the surface of the field you will fall;

you will not be gathered,

and you will not be assembled.

To the animalse of the field

and to the birdsf of the heavens

I will give you as food.