Ezekiel 32:2
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.
Ezekiel 32 stands in the book's section of correction, denunciation, and reproof, among a group of prophecies against seven foreign nations. Ezekiel 32:2 is a lament for Pharaoh king of Egypt within the prophecy against Egypt. That lament also foretells the certain fate of Pharaoh and his host. Pharaoh is pictured as a powerful creature among the nations, like a young lion of the nations and as a great creature in the seas, whose coming forth with his rivers troubles the waters with his feet and fouls their rivers.
The lament announces Egypt's coming ruin and downfall. It contributes to the wider prediction that Egypt would be conquered and brought low. The chapter is part of the prophecy that Egypt would lose its supremacy, be brought low, and no longer rule over other nations. Egypt, then a great kingdom and once the greatest empire, would become the basest of kingdoms, and these prophecies of its downfall were literally fulfilled.
Egypt had been a former oppressor of God's people and a symbol of black infidelity, and it would be brought low and abased, never to rise again among the nations. The announced ruin is dated to 588-586 BC and is compared with Assyria's fall, following Egypt's loss of its possessions west of the Euphrates to Nebuchadnezzar. Any reference in the verse to Satan is remote and far-fetched.