“Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.”
Thus says the Lord God: I will throw my net over you with a host of many peoples; and I will haul you up in my net, describing capture using the fishing metaphor repeated throughout the Egypt oracles, with God as fisher and Pharaoh as prey. The 'host of many peoples' suggests that multiple nations will be deployed as God's instrument of capture.
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