21 And God proceeded to create* the great sea monsters*+ and every living soul* that moves about,+ which the waters swarmed forth according to their kinds, and every winged flying creature according to its kind.+ And God got to see that [it was] good.

9 Awake, awake, clothe yourself with strength,+ O arm of Jehovah!+ Awake as in the days of long ago, as during the generations of times long past.+ Are you* not the one that broke Raʹhab*+ to pieces, that pierced the sea monster?*+

3 Speak, and you must say, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah has said: “Here I am against you, O Pharʹaoh, king of Egypt,+ the great sea monster+ lying stretched out in the midst of his Nile canals,+ that has said, ‘My Nile River belongs to me, and I—I have made [it] for myself.’+

2 “Son of man, lift up a dirge concerning Pharʹaoh the king of Egypt, and you must say to him, ‘As a maned young lion of nations you have been silenced.+

“‘And you have been like the marine monster in the seas,+ and you kept gushing in your rivers* and kept muddying the waters with your feet and fouling their rivers.’