1. In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth of the month, the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
2. Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against the whole of Egypt;
3. speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which saith, My river is mine own, and I made it for myself.
4. And I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales;
5. and I will cast thee into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open field; thou shalt not be brought together nor gathered: I will give thee for meat to the beasts of the earth and to the fowl of the heavens.
6. And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am Jehovah, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.