Prophesy Against Egypt
In the atenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me saying, 2 “Son of man, set your face against aPharaoh king of Egypt and prophesy against him and against all bEgypt. 3 Speak and say, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh,
“Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt,
The great amonster that lies in the midst of his canals of the Nile,
That bhas said, ‘My Nile is mine, and I myself have made it.’
4 I will put ahooks in your jaws
And make the fish of your canals of the Nile cling to your scales.
And I will bring you up out of the midst of your canals of the Nile,
And all the fish of your canals of the Nile will cling to your scales.
5 I will aabandon you to the wilderness, you and all the fish of your canals of the Nile;
You will fall on the open field; you will not be brought together or bgathered.
I have given you for cfood to the beasts of the earth and to the birds of the sky.
6 Then all the inhabitants of Egypt will know that I am Yahweh
Because they have been only a astaff made of reed to the house of Israel.
7 When they seized you with the hand,
You atore and split open all their shoulders;
And when they leaned on you,
You broke and made all their loins quake.”