Ezekiel 32:2–16

²“Son of man, take up a ^alamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him,

‘You liken yourself to a young ^blion of the nations,

Yet you are like the ^cmonster in the seas;

And you ^dburst forth in your rivers

And muddied the waters with your feet

And ¹fouled their rivers.’”

³Thus says Lord Yahweh,

“So I will ^aspread My net over you

With an assembly of many peoples,

And they shall bring you up in My net.

⁴“I will abandon you on the land;

I will hurl you on the ¹open field.

And I will cause all the ^abirds of the sky to dwell on you,

And I will satisfy the beasts of the whole earth ²with you.

⁵“I will put your flesh ^aon the mountains

And fill the valleys with your refuse.

⁶“I will also make the land drink the discharge of your ^ablood

As far as the mountains,

And the ravines will be full of you.

⁷“And when I ^aextinguish you,

I will ^bcover the heavens and darken their ^cstars;

I will cover the ^dsun with a cloud,

And the moon will not give its light.

⁸“All the shining ^alights in the heavens

I will darken over you

And will give darkness on your land,”

Declares Lord Yahweh.

⁹“I will also ^avex the hearts of many peoples when I ^bbring your destruction among the nations, into lands which you have not known.

¹⁰“I will make many peoples ^1aappalled at you, and their kings will be horribly afraid of you when I brandish My sword before them; and ^bthey will tremble every moment, every man for his own life, on the day of your downfall.”

¹¹For ^athus says Lord Yahweh, “The sword of the king of Babylon will come upon you.

¹²“By the swords of the mighty ones I will cause your multitude to fall; all of them are ^aruthless ones of the nations,

And they will ^bdevastate the lofty pride of Egypt,

And all its multitude will be destroyed.

¹³“I will also make all its cattle perish from beside many waters;

And ^athe foot of man will not muddy them anymore,

And the hoofs of beasts will not muddy them.

¹⁴“Then I will make their waters settle

And will cause their rivers to ¹run like oil,”

Declares Lord Yahweh.

¹⁵“When I make the land of Egypt a ^adesolation,

And the land is desolate of its fullness,

When I strike all those who inhabit it,

Then they shall ^bknow that I am Yahweh.

¹⁶“This is a ^alamentation, and they shall ¹lament over it. The daughters of the nations shall ²lament over it. Over Egypt and over all her multitude they shall ³lament over it,” declares Lord Yahweh.