1. In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2. Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt and prophesy against him and against all Egypt.
3. Speak, and say, Thus says the Lord God: I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt,the great dragon that lies in the midst of his rivers,which has said, “My Nile is my own,and I myself have made it.”
4. But I will put hooks in your jaws,and will cause the fish of your rivers to stick to your scales,and will bring you up out of the midst of your rivers,and all the fish of your rivers shall stick to your scales.
5. I will abandon you to the wilderness,you and all the fish of your rivers;you shall fall upon the open field;you shall not be brought together or gathered.I have given you for foodto the beasts of the field and to the fowl of the heavens.
6. All the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the Lord, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.
7. When they took hold of you by your hand, you broke and tore all their hands. And when they leaned upon you, you broke and made all their legs shake.
8. Therefore thus says the Lord God: I will bring a sword upon you, and cut off man and beast out of you.
9. The land of Egypt shall become a desolation and waste. Then they shall know that I am the Lord.Because you said, “The Nile is mine, and I have made it,”
10. therefore, I am against you and against your rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from Migdol to Syene, as far as the border of Ethiopia.
11. No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast pass through it, nor shall it be inhabited for forty years.