Ezekiel 29:1-5

The Voice

29 In the 10th year, on the 12th day of the 10th month, the word of the Eternal came to me with a message about Egypt.

Eternal One: ²Son of man, face Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and preach against him and against all of Egypt! ³Tell him this is what I, the Eternal Lord, have to say:

    Look, I am against you,
        Pharaoh king of Egypt.
    You are like a great river monster,
        snaking through the streams in the Nile,
        declaring, “I own the Nile. I made it, and it is mine.”
⁴    But I will set a hook in your jaws
        and make the fish of the Nile cling to your scales.
    I will haul you in out of your waterways,
        with all the fish clinging to your scales.
⁵    Then I will take you and leave you out in the desert,
        you and all the fish of your waters.
    You’ll collapse in the wide open space,
        but no one will bother to collect your remains
    Or bury you with your ancestors.
        You’ll be food for wild beasts of the earth and birds in the sky.