Ezekiel 29:4-6

New English Translation

⁴ I will put hooks in your jaws
and stick the fish of your waterways to your scales.
I will haul you up from the midst of your waterways,
and all the fish of your waterways will stick to your scales.
⁵ I will leave you in the wilderness,
you and all the fish of your waterways;
you will fall in the open field and will not be gathered up or collected.^[a]
I have given you as food to the beasts of the earth and the birds of the skies.
⁶ Then all those living in Egypt will know that I am the Lord
because they were a reed staff^[b] for the house of Israel;