Ezekiel 29:4-6

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁴ 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.
⁵ I will fling you into the wilderness,
    you and all the fish of your channels;
you shall fall in the open field,
    and not be gathered and buried.
To the animals of the earth and to the birds of the air
    I have given you as food.
⁶ Then all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know
    that I am the Lord
because you^[a] were a staff of reed
    to the house of Israel;