In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me: 'Son of man, raise a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him: You think of yourself as a lion among the nations, but you are like a dragon in the seas; you burst forth in your streams, and trouble the waters with your feet, and foul their streams, dating the lament over Pharaoh and employing dual imagery: lion on land, dragon in seas, suggesting that Pharaoh claims supremacy in multiple domains. The dragon metaphor evokes chaos forces opposed to order, suggesting that Pharaoh's power represents cosmic threat rather than legitimate authority. The fouling of waters indicates that Pharaoh's activity corrupts the environment.

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