Ezekiel 32

A Lament Over Pharaoh

32In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month on the first day, the word of the Lord came to me:^{p 2}“Son of man, take up a lament^q concerning Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him:

“ ‘You are like a lion^r among the nations;

you are like a monster^s in the seas^t

thrashing about in your streams,

churning the water with your feet

and muddying the streams.^u

³“ ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says:

“ ‘With a great throng of people

I will cast my net over you,

and they will haul you up in my net.^v

⁴I will throw you on the land

and hurl you on the open field.

I will let all the birds of the sky settle on you

and all the animals of the wild gorge themselves on you.^w

⁵I will spread your flesh on the mountains

and fill the valleys^x with your remains.

⁶I will drench the land with your flowing blood^y

all the way to the mountains,

and the ravines will be filled with your flesh.^z

⁷When I snuff you out, I will cover the heavens

and darken their stars;

I will cover the sun with a cloud,

and the moon will not give its light.^a

⁸All the shining lights in the heavens

I will darken^b over you;

I will bring darkness over your land,^c

declares the Sovereign Lord.

⁹I will trouble the hearts of many peoples

when I bring about your destruction among the nations,

among^a lands you have not known.

¹⁰I will cause many peoples to be appalled at you,

and their kings will shudder with horror because of you

when I brandish my sword^d before them.

On the day^e of your downfall

each of them will tremble

every moment for his life.^f

¹¹“ ‘For this is what the Sovereign Lord says:

“ ‘The sword^g of the king of Babylon^h

will come against you.ⁱ

¹²I will cause your hordes to fall

by the swords of mighty men—

the most ruthless of all nations.^j

They will shatter the pride of Egypt,

and all her hordes will be overthrown.^k

¹³I will destroy all her cattle

from beside abundant waters

no longer to be stirred by the foot of man

or muddied by the hooves of cattle.^l

¹⁴Then I will let her waters settle

and make her streams flow like oil,

declares the Sovereign Lord.

¹⁵When I make Egypt desolate

and strip the land of everything in it,

when I strike down all who live there,

then they will know that I am the Lord.^m’

¹⁶“This is the lamentⁿ they will chant for her. The daughters of the nations will chant it; for Egypt and all her hordes they will chant it, declares the Sovereign Lord.”

Egypt’s Descent Into the Realm of the Dead

¹⁷In the twelfth year, on the fifteenth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:^{o 18}“Son of man, wail for the hordes of Egypt and consign^p to the earth below both her and the daughters of mighty nations, along with those who go down to the pit.^{q 19}Say to them, ‘Are you more favored than others? Go down and be laid among the uncircumcised.’^{r 20}They will fall among those killed by the sword. The sword is drawn; let her be dragged^s off with all her hordes.^{t 21}From within the realm of the dead^u the mighty leaders will say of Egypt and her allies, ‘They have come down and they lie with the uncircumcised,^v with those killed by the sword.’

²²“Assyria is there with her whole army; she is surrounded by the graves of all her slain, all who have fallen by the sword. ²³Their graves are in the depths of the pit^w and her army lies around her grave.^x All who had spread terror in the land of the living are slain, fallen by the sword.

²⁴“Elam^y is there, with all her hordes around her grave. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword.^z All who had spread terror in the land of the living^a went down uncircumcised to the earth below. They bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.^{b 25}A bed is made for her among the slain, with all her hordes around her grave. All of them are uncircumcised,^c killed by the sword. Because their terror had spread in the land of the living, they bear their shame with those who go down to the pit; they are laid among the slain.

²⁶“Meshek and Tubal^d are there, with all their hordes around their graves. All of them are uncircumcised, killed by the sword because they spread their terror in the land of the living. ²⁷But they do not lie with the fallen warriors of old,^be who went down to the realm of the dead with their weapons of war—their swords placed under their heads and their shields^c resting on their bones—though these warriors also had terrorized the land of the living.

²⁸“You too, Pharaoh, will be broken and will lie among the uncircumcised, with those killed by the sword.

²⁹“Edom^f is there, her kings and all her princes; despite their power, they are laid with those killed by the sword. They lie with the uncircumcised, with those who go down to the pit.^g

³⁰“All the princes of the north^h and all the Sidoniansⁱ are there; they went down with the slain in disgrace despite the terror caused by their power. They lie uncircumcised^j with those killed by the sword and bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.^k

³¹“Pharaoh—he and all his army—will see them and he will be consoled^l for all his hordes that were killed by the sword, declares the Sovereign Lord. ³²Although I had him spread terror in the land of the living, Pharaoh^m and all his hordes will be laid among the uncircumcised, with those killed by the sword, declares the Sovereign Lord.”ⁿ