Ezekiel 29:1–9

¹In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, the LORD’s word came to me, saying,↗

²“Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him and against all Egypt.↗

³Speak and say, ‘The Lord GOD says: “Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lies in the middle of his rivers, that has said, ‘My river is my own, and I have made it for myself.’↗

⁴I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will make the fish of your rivers stick to your scales. I will bring you up out of the middle of your rivers, with all the fish of your rivers which stick to your scales.↗

⁵I’ll cast you out into the wilderness, you and all the fish of your rivers. You’ll fall on the open field. You won’t be brought together or gathered. I have given you for food to the animals of the earth and to the birds of the sky.↗

⁶“‘“All the inhabitants of Egypt will know that I am the LORD, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.↗

⁷When they took hold of you by your hand, you broke and tore all their shoulders. When they leaned on you, you broke and paralyzed all of their thighs.”↗

⁸“‘Therefore the Lord GOD says: “Behold, I will bring a sword on you, and will cut off man and animal from you.↗

⁹The land of Egypt will be a desolation and a waste. Then they will know that I am the LORD. “‘“Because he has said, ‘The river is mine, and I have made it,’↗