Son of man, a weak human being, and yet the messenger of the almighty God, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh, king of Egypt, very likely Pharaoh-hophra, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, in his behavior over against them, in the terror which he inspired, and thou art as a whale in the seas, rather, a dragon or crocodile, an object of fear wherever he was known; and thou camest forth with thy rivers, as a mighty stream from its underground bed, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, deliberately dirtying it, and fouledst their rivers. Egypt had gone forth to vanquish and subdue other nations, taking away their independence and troubling them in various other ways.

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