Ezekiel 29:3–9

³“Speak and say, ‘Thus says the Lord ¹God,

“Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt,

The great ^2amonster that lies in the midst of his ³rivers,

That ^bhas said, ‘My Nile is mine, and I myself have made it.’

⁴“I will put ^ahooks in your jaws

And make the fish of your ¹rivers cling to your scales.

And I will bring you up out of the midst of your rivers,

And all the fish of your rivers will cling to your scales.

⁵“I will ^aabandon you to the wilderness, you and all the fish of your ¹rivers;

You will fall on the ²open field; you will not be brought together or ^3bgathered.

I have given you for ^cfood to the beasts of the earth and to the birds of the sky.

⁶“Then all the inhabitants of Egypt will know that I am the Lord,

Because they have been only a ^astaff made of reed to the house of Israel.

⁷“When they took hold of you with the hand,

You ^abroke and tore all their ¹hands;

And when they leaned on you,

You broke and made all their loins ²quake.”

⁸‘Therefore thus says the Lord God, “Behold, I will ^abring upon you a sword and I will cut off from you man and beast.

⁹“The ^aland of Egypt will become a desolation and waste. Then they will know that I am the Lord.

Because ¹you ^bsaid, ‘The Nile is mine, and I have made it,’