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Say to him: Thus says the Lord God:

Pay attention! I am against you,
    Pharaoh, king of Egypt,
Great dragon[a] crouching
    in the midst of the Nile,
Who says, “The Nile belongs to me;
    I made it myself!”(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 29:3 Dragon: Hebrew reads tannim, usually translated “jackals,” here a byform of tannin, the mythical dragon, or sea monster, representing chaos (cf. Is 27:1; 51:9; Jer 51:34; Ps 91:13; Jb 7:12), and the crocodile native to the Nile. Nile: the many rivulets of the Nile that branch out into the Delta.

Son of man, utter a lament over Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and say to him:

You liken yourself to a lion among nations,
    but you are like the monster in the sea!
Thrashing about in your streams,
    churning the water with your feet,
    polluting the streams.(A)

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