Ezekiel 32:2–16

^2f“Son of man, ^graise a lamentation over ^hPharaoh king of Egypt and say to him:

“You consider yourself ⁱa lion of the nations,

but you are like ^ja dragon ^kin the seas;

^lyou burst forth in your rivers,

trouble the waters with your feet,

and foul their rivers.

³Thus says the Lord God:

^mI will throw my net over you

with a host of ⁿmany peoples,

and ^othey will haul you up in my dragnet.

⁴And ^pI will cast you on the ground;

on the open field I will fling you,

and will cause all the birds of the heavens to settle on you,

and I will gorge the beasts of the whole earth with you.

⁵I will strew your flesh ^qupon the mountains

and fill the valleys with your carcass.¹

⁶I will drench the land even to the mountains

with your flowing blood,

and the ravines will be full of you.

^7rWhen I blot you out, ^sI will cover the heavens

and make their stars dark;

I will cover the sun with a cloud,

and the moon shall not give its light.

⁸All the bright lights of heaven

will I make dark over you,

and ^tput darkness on your land,

declares the Lord God.

⁹“I will trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries that you have not known. ^10uI will make many peoples appalled at you, and the hair of their kings shall bristle with horror because of you, when ^vI brandish my sword before them. ^wThey shall tremble every moment, every one for his own life, on the day of your downfall.

¹¹“For thus says the Lord God: ^xThe sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon you. ¹²I will cause ^yyour multitude to fall by the swords of mighty ones, all of them ^zmost ruthless of nations.

^a“They shall bring to ruin the pride of Egypt,

and all its multitude² shall perish.

¹³I will destroy all its beasts

from beside many waters;

^band no foot of man shall trouble them anymore,

nor shall the hoofs of beasts trouble them.

¹⁴Then ^cI will make their waters clear,

and cause their rivers to run like oil,

declares the Lord God.

¹⁵When I make the land of Egypt desolate,

and when the land ^dis desolate of all that fills it,

when I strike down all who dwell in it,

then ^ethey will know that I am the Lord.

^16fThis is a lamentation that shall be chanted; the daughters of the nations shall chant it; over Egypt, and over ^gall her multitude, shall they chant it, declares the Lord God.”