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A Lament for Pharaoh and Egypt

32 In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying: Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him:

You likened yourself to a young lion of the nations,
    but you are as the monster in the seas;
and you burst forth in your rivers,
    and muddied the waters with your feet,
    and made foul their rivers.

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