32 In mid-February of the twelfth year of King Jehoiachin’s captivity, this message came to me from the Lord:

² “Son of dust, mourn for Pharaoh, king of Egypt and say to him: ‘You think of yourself as a strong young lion among the nations, but you are merely a crocodile^[a] along the banks of the Nile, making bubbles and muddying the stream.’”