“You consider yourself ^(D)a lion of the nations,
    but you are like ^(E)a dragon ^(F)in the seas;
^(G)you burst forth in your rivers,
    trouble the waters with your feet,
    and foul their rivers.

^(A)“Behold, I am against you,
    Pharaoh king of Egypt,
^(B)the great dragon that lies
    in the midst of his streams,
^(C)that says, ‘My Nile is my own;
    I made it for myself.’

^26 (E)“‘Have you not heard
    that I determined it long ago?
I planned from days of old
    what now I bring to pass,
that you should make fortified cities
    crash into heaps of ruins,

“By the strength of my hand I have done it,
    and by my wisdom, for I have understanding;
I remove the boundaries of peoples,
    and plunder their treasures;
    like a bull I bring down those who sit on thrones.
¹⁴ My hand has found like a nest
    the wealth of the peoples;
and as one gathers eggs that have been forsaken,
    so I have gathered all the earth;
and there was none that moved a wing
    or opened the mouth or chirped.”

¹⁵ Shall ^(B)the axe boast over him who hews with it,
    or the saw magnify itself against him who wields it?
As if a rod should wield him who lifts it,
    or as if a staff should lift him who is not wood!
¹⁶ Therefore the Lord God of hosts
    will send wasting sickness among his ^(C)stout warriors,
and under his glory ^(D)a burning will be kindled,
    like the burning of fire.