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Son of man set your face against Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and prophesy against him and against the whole of Egypt. Speak to him and say: Thus says the Lord:

Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh,
    king of Egypt,
you great crocodile
    lurking in the streams of the Nile,
you who claimed, “The Nile is mine;
    it is I who made it.”
I will put hooks through your jaws
    and cause the fish of your Nile
    to stick to your scales.
Then I will draw you up
    from the midst of its tributaries,
with all the fish of those channels
    clinging to your scales.

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