Ezekiel 32:2–16

²“Human, sing a funeral song about the king of Egypt. Say to him:

‘You are like a young lion among the nations.

You are like a crocodile in the seas.

You splash around in your streams

and stir up the water with your feet,

making the rivers muddy.

³“ ‘This is what the Lord God says:

I will spread my net over you,

and I will use a large group of people

to pull you up in my net.

⁴Then I will throw you on the land

dropping you onto the ground.

I will let the birds of the sky rest on you

and all the animals of the earth eat you until they are full.

⁵I will scatter your flesh on the mountains

and fill the valleys with what is left of you.

⁶I will drench the land with your flowing blood

as far as the mountains,

and the ravines will be full of your flesh.

⁷When I make you disappear,

I will cover the sky and make the stars dark.

I will cover the sun with a cloud,

and the moon will not shine.

⁸I will make all the shining lights in the sky

become dark over you;

I will bring darkness over your land,

says the Lord God.

⁹I will cause many people to be afraid

when I bring you as a captive into other nations,

to lands you have not known.

¹⁰I will cause many people to be shocked about you.

Their kings will tremble with fear because of you

when I swing my sword in front of them.

They will shake every moment

on the day you fall;

each king will be afraid for his own life.

¹¹“ ‘So this is what the Lord God says:

The sword of the king of Babylon

will attack you.

¹²I will cause your people to fall

by the swords of mighty soldiers,

the most terrible in the world.

They will destroy the pride of Egypt

and all its people.

¹³I will also destroy all Egypt’s cattle

which live alongside much water.

The foot of a human will not stir the water,

and the hoofs of cattle will not muddy it anymore.

¹⁴So I will let the Egyptians’ water become clear.

I will cause their rivers to run as smoothly as olive oil,

says the Lord God.

¹⁵When I make the land of Egypt empty

and take everything that is in the land,

when I destroy all those who live in Egypt,

then they will know that I am the Lord.’

¹⁶“This is the funeral song people will sing for Egypt. The women of the nations will sing it; they will sing a funeral song for Egypt and all its people, says the Lord God.”