<p class="poetry">I will put hooks in your jawsp> <p class="poetry">and stick the fish of your waterways to your scales.p> <p class="poetry">I will haul you up from the midst of your waterways,p> <p class="poetry">and all the fish of your waterways will stick to your scales.p>

Tell them, &#8216;This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;&#8216;Look, I am against<n id="1" /> you, Pharaoh king of Egypt,p> <p class="poetry">the great monster<n id="2" /> lying in the midst of its waterways,p> <p class="poetry">who has said, &#8220;My Nile is my own, I made it for myself.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

The land of Egypt will become a desolate ruin. Then they will know that I am the <sc>Lordsc>.p> <p class="bodytext">Because he said, &#8220;The Nile is mine and I made it,&#8221;

I am against<n id="1" /> you and your waterways. I will turn the land of Egypt into an utter desolate ruin from Migdol<n id="2" /> to Syene,<n id="3" /> as far as the border with Ethiopia.

<p class="poetry">I will dry up the waterwaysp> <p class="poetry">and hand the land over to<n id="1" /> evil men.p> <p class="poetry">I will make the land and everything in it desolate by the hand of foreigners.p> <p class="poetry">I, the <sc>Lordsc>, have spoken!p>

<p class="poetry">I will leave you in the wilderness,p> <p class="poetry">you and all the fish of your waterways;p> <p class="poetry">you will fall in the open field and will not be gathered up or collected.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I have given you as food to the beasts of the earth and the birds of the skies.p>