^(B)‘You are like a young lion among the nations,
And ^(C)you are like a monster in the seas,
^(D)Bursting forth in your rivers,
Troubling the waters with your feet,
And ^(E)fouling their rivers.

^(A)“Behold, I am against you,
O Pharaoh king of Egypt,
O great ^(B)monster who lies in the midst of his rivers,
^(C)Who has said, ‘My ^[a]River is my own;
I have made it for myself.’

¹¹ Where is the dwelling of the ^(A)lions,
And the feeding place of the young lions,
Where the lion walked, the lioness and lion’s cub,
And no one made them afraid?
¹² The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs,
^[a]Killed for his lionesses,
^(B)Filled his caves with prey,
And his dens with ^[b]flesh.

¹⁶ “This is the ^(A)lamentation
With which they shall lament her;
The daughters of the nations shall lament her;
They shall lament for her, for Egypt,
And for all her multitude,”
Says the Lord God.’ ”

^(B)“You were the seal of perfection,
Full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.

‘What is your mother? A lioness:
She lay down among the lions;
Among the young lions she nourished her cubs.
³ She brought up one of her cubs,
And ^(B)he became a young lion;
He learned to catch prey,
And he devoured men.
⁴ The nations also heard of him;
He was trapped in their pit,
And they brought him with chains to the land of ^(C)Egypt.

⁵ ‘When she saw that she waited, that her hope was lost,
She took ^(D)another of her cubs and made him a young lion.
^6 (E)He roved among the lions,
And ^(F)became a young lion;
He learned to catch prey;
He devoured men.