¹⁸“Son of man,^x mourn over the hordes of Egypt, and make her go down, and with her the daughters of mighty nations, down to the deep underworld^y with the people going down to the grave.^z ¹⁹You are more lovely than whom?^a Go down and be laid in rest with the uncircumcised. ²⁰In the midst of the people slain by the sword it^b is given they will fall to a sword; they carried her^c off and all of her^d hordes. ²¹The chiefs of the warriors will speak to him from the middle of Sheol; with his helpers they have gone down; the uncircumcised lie still, those slain by the sword.^e

²²Assyria is there and all of its assembly; all around it are its graves, all of them killed, those fallen by the sword, ²³who^f will be given its graves in the remote areas of the pit, and its assembly will be all around its grave, all of them killed, fallen by the sword, those who spread terror in the land of the living.

²⁴Elam is there and all of its hordes, all around its grave, all of them dead who fell by the sword, those who went down uncircumcised to the depths of the underworld,^g those who spread their terror to the land of the living, and now they bear their disgrace with the people going down to the grave.^h ²⁵In the midst of the slain they made a bed for her with all of her hordes all around its graves, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, for their terror was spread in the land of the living, and they now bear their disgrace with the people going down to the grave;ⁱ in the midst of the slain it was placed.

²⁶Meshech and Tubal are there and all of its hordes, all around him its graves, all of them uncircumcised and killed by the sword, for they gave their terror in the land of the living. ²⁷And they do not lie with warriors fallen from long ago, who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war,^j and they placed their sword under their heads, and their shields^k were on their bones, for the terror of the warriors was in the land of the living. ²⁸And you^l too in the midst of uncircumcised people will be broken, and you will lie with those slain by the sword.

²⁹There is Edom, its kings and all of its leaders who are laid along with their might with those killed by the sword; they will lie with the uncircumcised and with the people going down to the grave.^m

³⁰There are also the princes of the north, all of them, all of the Sidonians who have gone down, being ashamed to lie with the slain becauseⁿ of their terror that they caused from their might, and they lie uncircumcised with those killed by the sword, and they bear their disgrace along with the people going down to the grave.^o

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Footnotes

xOr “mortal,” or “son of humankind”
yLiterally “to the world/earth deeps/depth”
zOr “pit” or “netherworld”
aLiterally “from whom are you lovely”
bOr “she”; that is, Egypt
cOr “it”
dOr “its”
eLiterally “the slain of the sword”
fThat is, Assyria
gLiterally “land/earth/world”
hOr “pit” or “sheol”
iOr “pit”
jLiterally “with the weapons of war their”
kReading “their shields” for “their guilt”
lEvidently refers to Egypt
mOr “pit”
nOr “in spite of” (cf. NJPS, NIV)
oOr “pit”