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Mortal, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him and against all Egypt;(A) speak and say: Thus says the Lord God:

I am against you,
    Pharaoh king of Egypt,
the great dragon sprawling
    in the midst of its channels,
saying, “My Nile is my own;
    I made it for myself.”(B)
I will put hooks in your jaws
    and make the fish of your channels stick to your scales.
I will draw you up from your channels,
    with all the fish of your channels
    sticking to your scales.(C)

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“Son of man, set your face against(A) Pharaoh king of Egypt(B) and prophesy against him and against all Egypt.(C) Speak to him and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says:

“‘I am against you, Pharaoh(D) king of Egypt,
    you great monster(E) lying among your streams.
You say, “The Nile(F) belongs to me;
    I made it for myself.”
But I will put hooks(G) in your jaws
    and make the fish of your streams stick to your scales.
I will pull you out from among your streams,
    with all the fish sticking to your scales.(H)

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