1. On the first day of the twelfth month of the twelfth year, the word of Adonai came to me saying:
2. “Son of man, lift up a lament for Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: ‘You compare yourself to a young lion of the nations, but you are a crocodile in the waters. You thrash about in your rivers and muddy the water with your feet and foul their streams.’”
3. Thus says Adonai Elohim: “I will throw My net over you with a host of many peoples. They will haul you up in My net.
4. I will leave you on the land. I will hurl you on an open field. I will cause all the birds of the sky to settle upon you. I will gorge the beasts of the whole earth with you.
5. I will strew your flesh on the mountains and fill the valleys with your refuse.
6. I will drench the land with the flow of your blood up to the hills. The ravines will be full of you.
7. When I extinguish you, I will cover the sky and darken the stars. I will cover the sun with cloud, and the moon will not give her light.
8. I will darken all of heaven’s bright lights over you and set darkness on your land.” It is a declaration of Adonai.
9. “I will disturb the hearts of many peoples when I bring about your destruction among the nations, into lands you have not known.
10. I will make many people appalled at you. Their kings will be totally aghast at you when I brandish My sword over you. They will shudder every moment, every man for his own life, on the day of your downfall.”
11. For thus says Adonai Elohim: “The sword of the king of Babylon will come upon you.
12. By the swords of the mighty I will cause your multitude to fall. They are all ruthless among the nations. They will devastate the pride of Egypt. All of its multitude will be annihilated.