Ezekiel 32:1–16

*And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, atake up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like ba young lion of the nations, and thou art as a ||whale in cthe seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and dtroubledst the waters with thy feet, and efouledst their rivers. 3 Thus saith the Lord God; I will therefore eespread out my net over thee with a company of many people; and they shall bring thee up in my fnet. 4 Then gwill I leave thee upon the land, gI will cast thee forth upon the open field, and hwill cause all the fowls of the heaven to remain upon thee, and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with thee. 5 And I will lay thy flesh iupon the mountains, and fill ithe valleys with thy height. 6 I will also water with thy blood ||the land wherein thou swimmest, even ito the mountains; and ithe rivers shall be full of thee. 7 And when I shall ||put thee out, kI will cover the heaven, and lmake the stars thereof dark; kI will cover the sun with a cloud, and kthe moon shall not give her light. 8 All the †bright lights of heaven will I lmake †dark over thee, and nset darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord God. 9 I will also †vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy odestruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not known. 10 Yea, I will pmake many people amazed at thee, and ptheir kings shall be horribly afraid for thee, when I shall brandish my sword before them; and qthey shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, rin the day of thy fall.

11 For thus saith the Lord God; sThe sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee. 12 By the swords of the mighty will I cause tthy multitude to fall, uthe terrible of the nations, all of them: and vthey shall spoil the pomp of Egypt, and all tthe multitude thereof shall be destroyed. 13 I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside the great waters; wneither shall the foot of man dtrouble them any more, nor the hoofs of beasts dtrouble them. 14 Then will I xmake their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord God. 15 When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and ythe country shall be †destitute of that whereof it was full, when I shall smite all them that dwell therein, then zshall they know that I am the Lord. 16 This is athe lamentation wherewith bthey shall lament her: bbthe daughters of the nations shall lament her: they shall lament for her, even for Egypt, and for all cher multitude, saith the Lord God.