Ezekiel 29:2-4

The Voice

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.