1. In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
2. “Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and prophesy against him and against Egypt, all of it.
3. Speak, and you must say, ‘thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Look! I am against you, Pharaoh, king of Egypt, the great sea monster, the one lying down in the midst of his Nile streams, who says to me, “It is my Nile, and I made it for myself.”