^{2 Ref} `Son of man, lift up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and thou hast said unto him: A young lion of nations thou hast been like, And thou `art' as a dragon in the seas, And thou comest forth with thy flowings, And dost trouble the waters with thy feet, And thou dost foul their flowings.

^{3 Ref} Thus said the Lord Jehovah: And -- I have spread out for thee My net, With an assembly of many peoples, And they have brought thee up in My net.

^{4 Ref} And I have left thee in the land, On the face of the field I do cast thee out, And have caused to dwell upon thee every fowl of the heavens, And have satisfied out of thee the beasts of the whole earth.

^{5 Ref} And I have put thy flesh on the mountains, And filled the valleys `with' thy hugeness,

^{6 Ref} And watered the land with thy flowing, From thy blood -- unto the mountains, And streams are filled from thee.

^{7 Ref} And in quenching thee I have covered the heavens, And have made black their stars, The sun with a cloud I do cover, And the moon causeth not its light to shine.

^{8 Ref} All luminaries of light in the heavens, I make black over thee, And I have given darkness over thy land, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah,

^{9 Ref} And I have vexed the heart of many peoples, In My bringing in thy destruction among nations, Unto lands that thou hast not known.