Ezekiel 29:3-5

International Standard Version

‘Watch out! I’m coming to get^[a] you,
    Pharaoh, king of Egypt!
You big monster!
    You lay in wait in the middle of your waterways^[b] and say,
“My waterways belong to me!
    I made them for myself!”

⁴ ‘So I’m going to plant a hook in your jaw
    and make the fish in your waterways grab hold of your scales.
I’ll bring you up out of the middle of your waterways,
    along with all of the fish from your waterways that cling to your scales,
⁵ Then I’ll fling you out into the desert,
    you and all those fish in your waterways.
You’ll fall out in the open fields;
    you’ll never be reunited.
I’m giving you to the wild beasts of the earth
    and to the birds of the sky,
        and they will dine on you!