1 On the twelfth day of the tenth month of the tenth year of our exile, the Lord spoke to me.
2 “Mortal man,” he said, “denounce the king of Egypt. Tell him how he and all the land of Egypt will be punished.
3 Say that this is what the Sovereign Lord is telling the king of Egypt: I am your enemy, you monster crocodile, lying in the river. You say that the Nile is yours and that you made it.
4 I am going to put a hook through your jaw and make the fish in your river stick fast to you. Then I will pull you up out of the Nile, with all the fish sticking to you.
5 I will throw you and all those fish into the desert. Your body will fall on the ground and be left unburied. I will give it to the birds and animals for food.