A Lament Casts Pharaoh as a Captured Sea Creature

Not a young lion: a captured river monster

In the twelfth year, a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt: Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas; thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.

The LORD will spread his net over him with a company of many people; they shall bring him up in his net. He is left upon the land, cast forth upon the open field; fowls settle, beasts are filled. His flesh is laid upon the mountains; valleys are filled with his height. The land is watered with his blood, even to the mountains, and the rivers are full of him.

Heaven's lights go out for watching kings

The LORD covers the heaven and makes the stars thereof dark; he covers the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light. All the bright lights of heaven he makes dark over Egypt, and sets darkness upon the land.

He vexes the hearts of many people when he brings Pharaoh's destruction among the nations, into countries not known. He makes many people amazed, and their kings horribly afraid, when he brandishes his sword before them; they tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of Egypt's fall. The cosmic poem is funeral scale, not a predicted eclipse, not dehumanization of Egyptians, and not permission to be cruel to animals.