1. In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2. Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: You likened yourself to a young lion of the nations,but you are as the monster in the seas;and you burst forth in your rivers,and muddied the waters with your feet,and made foul their rivers.
3. Thus says the Lord God: I will therefore spread out My net over youwith a company of many peoples,and they shall bring you up in My net.
4. Then I will leave you upon the land;I will cast you out on the open field,and I will cause all the fowl of the heavens to remain upon you.And I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with you.
5. I will lay your flesh upon the mountains,and fill the valleys with your refuse.
6. I will also water the land with your blood,as far as the mountains;and the rivers shall be full of you.
7. When I put you out, I will cover the heavensand 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 in the heavensI will make dark over you,and set darkness upon your land,says the Lord God.
9. I will also vex the hearts of many peoples when I bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries which you have not known.
10. Indeed, I will make many peoples amazed at you, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for you when I brandish My sword before them. And they shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, on the day of your fall.
11. For thus says the Lord God: The sword of the king of Babylonshall come upon you.