(1) In the tenth year, on the twelfth day of the tenth month, the word of the LORD came to me:

(2) O mortal, turn your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him and against all Egypt.

(3) Speak these words: Thus said the Lord GOD: I am going to deal with you, O Pharaoh king of Egypt, Mighty monster, sprawling in your channels, Who said, My Nile is my own; I made it for myself.

(4) I will put hooks in your jaws, And make the fish of your channels Cling to your scales; I will haul you up from your channels, With all the fish of your channels Clinging to your scales.

(5) And I will fling you into the desert, With all the fish of your channels. You shall be left lying in the open, Ungathered and unburied: I have given you as food To the beasts of the earth And the birds of the sky.

(6) Then all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know That I am the LORD. Because you were a staff of reed To the House of Israel:

(7) When they grasped you with the hand, you would splinter, And wound all their shoulders, And when they leaned on you, you would break, And make all their loins unsteady.

(8) Assuredly, thus said the Lord GOD: Lo, I will bring a sword against you, and will cut off man and beast from you,

(9) so that the land of Egypt shall fall into desolation and ruin. And they shall know that I am the LORD—because he boasted, “The Nile is mine, and I made it.”