‘You may have called yourself a lion among nations,
    but you’re a monster at sea.
You thrash about in your rivers,
    muddy the water with your feet,
        and relieve yourself in the rivers.’

³ “This is what the Lord God says:
    ‘I’m coming fishing for you!
Right in the sight of many nations
    they’ll haul you up in my dragnet.
⁴ I’ll fling you up onto the land;
    I’ll haul you into the field,
I’ll make every carrion-eating bird come to dine on you,
    and I’ll make all the scavenging animals gorge themselves on you.
⁵ I’ll cover the mountains with your flesh
    and fill their valleys with your rotting carcass.^[b]
6 I’ll drench the land with your blood,
    right up to the mountains,
and the ravines will overflow
    with blood that comes from you!
⁷ When I extinguish your lights,
    I’ll cover the heavens
        and darken their stars.
I’ll cover the sun with a cloud
    and the moon won’t reflect its light.
⁸ I’ll darken the bright lights in the sky above you
    and bring darkness to your territory,’
        declares the Lord God.

‘They will devastate the majesty of Egypt,
    destroying all of its hordes.
¹³ I’m going to destroy all of its livestock
    along its many riverbanks.
Human feet won’t muddy the rivers anymore,
    nor will the hooves of livestock stir up the water.
¹⁴ That’s when I’ll make their waterways flow smoothly,
    and their rivers flow like olive oil,’^[e]
        declares the Lord God.”
¹⁵ ‘When I turn the land of Egypt into a desolation,
    and the land is emptied of everything that used to fill it,
when I strike everyone who lives there,
    they will learn that I am the Lord.’