“Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.”
I will put hooks in your jaws, and make the fish of your streams stick to your scales; and I will draw you up out of the midst of your streams, and all the fish of your streams shall stick to your scales, using the metaphor of fishing and hunting to describe God's capture of Pharaoh. The 'hooks in your jaws' and the clinging of fish suggest that Pharaoh will be drawn out of the Nile—the source of his power—and exposed. The fishing metaphor inverts Pharaoh's mastery over the Nile, showing him vulnerable to divine capture.
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