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.