Ezekiel 29

¹In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

²Son of man, let your face be turned against Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and be a prophet against him and against all Egypt:

³Say to them, These are the words of the Lord: See, I am against you, Pharaoh, king of Egypt, the great river-beast stretched out among his Nile streams, who has said, The Nile is mine, and I have made it for myself.

⁴And I will put hooks in your mouth, and the fish of your streams will be hanging from your skin; and I will make you come up out of your streams, with all the fish of your streams hanging from your skin.

⁵And I will let you be in the waste land, you and all the fish of your streams: you will go down on the face of the land; you will not be taken up or put to rest in the earth; I have given you for food to the beasts of the field and the birds of the heaven.

⁶And it will be clear to all the people of Egypt that I am the Lord, because you have been a false support to the children of Israel.

⁷When they took a grip of you in their hands, you were crushed so that their arms were broken: and when they put their weight on you for support, you were broken and all their muscles gave way.

⁸For this cause the Lord has said: See, I am sending a sword on you, cutting off from you man and beast.

⁹And the land of Egypt will be an unpeopled waste; and they will be certain that I am the Lord: because he has said, The Nile is mine, and I made it.

¹⁰See, then, I am against you and against your streams, and I will make the land of Egypt an unpeopled waste, from Migdol to Syene, even as far as the edge of Ethiopia.