²⁸ Because your raging against me
and your arrogance have reached my ears,
I will put my hook in your nose^(A)
and my bit in your mouth;
I will make you go back
the way you came.

²⁹ Because your raging against me
and your arrogance have reached my ears,^(A)
I will put my hook in your nose^(B)
and my bit in your mouth;^(C)
I will make you go back
the way you came.

⁴ When the nations heard about him,
he was caught in their pit.
Then they led him away with hooks
to the land of Egypt.^(A)

⁹ They put a wooden yoke on him^[a] with hooks^(A)
and led him away to the king of Babylon.
They brought him into the fortresses
so his roar could no longer be heard
on the mountains of Israel.^(B)

⁴ I will put hooks in your jaws^(A)
and make the fish of your streams
cling to your scales.
I will haul you up
from the middle of your Nile,
and all the fish of your streams
will cling to your scales.

Look, the days are coming^[a]
when you will be taken away with hooks,^(C)
every last one of you with fishhooks.^(D)