^{2 Ref} Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and tell him, You were likened to a young lion of the nations: yet are you as a monster in the seas; and you did break forth with your rivers, and troubled the waters with your feet, and fouled their rivers.

^{3 Ref} Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will spread out my net on you with a company of many peoples; and they shall bring you up in my net.

^{4 Ref} I will leave you on the land, I will cast you forth on the open field, and will cause all the birds of the sky to settle on you, and I will satisfy the animals of the whole earth with you.

^{5 Ref} I will lay your flesh on the mountains, and fill the valleys with your height.

^{6 Ref} I will also water with your blood the land in which you swim, even to the mountains; and the watercourses shall be full of you.

^{7 Ref} When I shall extinguish you, I will cover the heavens, and make the stars of it dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light.

^{8 Ref} All the bright lights of the sky will I make dark over you, and set darkness on your land, says the Lord Yahweh.

^{9 Ref} I will also vex the hearts of many peoples, when I shall bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries which you have not known.