“Behold, ^(A)I will plead your case and take vengeance for you.
^(B)I will dry up her sea and make her springs dry.

^(A)“Behold, I am against you,
O Pharaoh king of Egypt,
O great ^(B)monster who lies in the midst of his rivers,
^(C)Who has said, ‘My ^[a]River is my own;
I have made it for myself.’
⁴ But ^(D)I will put hooks in your jaws,
And cause the fish of your rivers to stick to your scales;
I will bring you up out of the midst of your rivers,
And all the fish in your rivers will stick to your scales.
⁵ I will leave you in the wilderness,
You and all the fish of your rivers;
You shall fall on the ^[b]open ^(E)field;
^(F)You shall not be picked up or ^[c]gathered.
^(G)I have given you as food
To the beasts of the field
And to the birds of the heavens.

⁶ “Then all the inhabitants of Egypt
Shall know that I am the Lord,
Because they have been a ^(H)staff of reed to the house of Israel.
^7 (I)When they took hold of you with the hand,
You broke and tore all their ^[d]shoulders;
When they leaned on you,
You broke and made all their backs quiver.”