1. And it came to be in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first of the month, that the word of יהוה came to me, saying,
2. “Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh sovereign of Mitsrayim, and you shall say to him, ‘You were like a young lion among the nations, and you are like a monster in the seas, and you burst forth in your rivers, and trouble the waters with your feet, and muddy their rivers.’
3. “Thus said the Master יהוה, ‘And I shall spread My net over you with an assembly of many peoples, and they shall bring you up in My net.
4. ‘And I shall leave you on the land, hurl you out on the open fields, and make all the birds of the heavens dwell on you. And with you I shall satisfy the beasts of all the earth.
5. ‘And I shall put your flesh on the mountains, and fill the valleys with your height,
6. and water the land with the flow of your blood unto the mountains, and let streams be filled with you.