Ezekiel 32:2–16

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.”