Ezekiel 29:1-5

Common English Bible

Against Egypt

29 In the tenth year, on the twelfth day of the tenth month, the Lord’s word came to me: ²Human one, face Pharaoh, Egypt’s king, and prophesy against him and against all of Egypt. ³Speak and say, The Lord God proclaims:

I’m against you, Pharaoh, Egypt’s king,
    great crocodile lurking
    in the Nile’s canals,
        who says, “The Nile is all mine;
        I made it for myself!”
⁴I will set hooks in your jaws;
    I will make the fish from the Nile’s canals cling to your scales.
I will drag you out of the Nile’s canals,
    and also all the fish from the Nile’s canals
    clinging to your scales.
⁵        I will fling you out into the desert,
        and also all the fish from the Nile’s canals.
You will fall on the open ground,
    and won’t be gathered or retrieved.