Ezekiel 32

Lamentation for Pharaoh and Egypt

32And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the ^atwelfth month, on the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ²“Son of man, ^btake up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him:

^c‘You are like a young lion among the nations,

And ^dyou are like a monster in the seas,

^eBursting forth in your rivers,

Troubling the waters with your feet,

And ^ffouling their rivers.’

³“Thus says the Lord God:

‘I will therefore ^gspread My net over you with a company of many people,

And they will draw you up in My net.

⁴Then ^hI will leave you on the land;

I will cast you out on the open fields,

ⁱAnd cause to ¹settle on you all the birds of the heavens.

And with you I will fill the beasts of the whole earth.

⁵I will lay your flesh ^jon the mountains,

And fill the valleys with your carcass.

⁶‘I will also water the land with the flow of your blood,

Even to the mountains;

And the riverbeds will be full of you.

⁷When I put out your light,

^kI will cover the heavens, and make its stars dark;

I will cover the sun with a cloud,

And the moon shall not give her light.

⁸All the ²bright lights of the heavens I will make dark over you,

And bring darkness upon your land,’

Says the Lord God.

⁹‘I will also trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries which you have not known. ¹⁰Yes, I will make many peoples astonished at you, and their kings shall be horribly afraid of you when I brandish My sword before them; and ^lthey shall tremble every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of your fall.’

^11m“For thus says the Lord God: ‘The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon you. ¹²‘By the swords of the mighty warriors, all of them ⁿthe most terrible of the nations, I will cause your multitude to fall.

^o“They shall plunder the pomp of Egypt,

And all its multitude shall be destroyed.

¹³Also I will destroy all its animals

From beside its great waters;

^pThe foot of man shall muddy them no more,

Nor shall the hooves of animals muddy them.

¹⁴Then I will make their waters ³clear,

And make their rivers run like oil,’

Says the Lord God.

¹⁵‘When I make the land of Egypt desolate,

And the country is destitute of all that once filled it,

When I strike all who dwell in it,

^qThen they shall know that I am the Lord.

¹⁶‘This is the ^rlamentation

With which they shall lament her;

The daughters of the nations shall lament her;

They shall lament for her, for Egypt,

And for all her multitude,’

Says the Lord God.”

Egypt and Others Consigned to the Pit

¹⁷It came to pass also in the twelfth year, on the fifteenth day of the month, ^sthat the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

¹⁸“Son of man, wail over the multitude of Egypt,

And ^tcast them down to the depths of the earth,

Her and the daughters of the famous nations,

With those who go down to the Pit:

¹⁹‘Whom ^udo you surpass in beauty?

^vGo down, be placed with the uncircumcised.’

²⁰“They shall fall in the midst of those slain by the sword;

She is delivered to the sword,

^wDrawing her and all her multitudes.

^21xThe strong among the mighty

Shall speak to him out of the midst of hell

With those who help him:

‘They have ^ygone down,

They lie with the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.’

²²“Assyria ^zis there, and all her company,

With their graves all around her,

All of them slain, fallen by the sword.

^23aHer graves are set in the recesses of the Pit,

And her company is all around her grave,

All of them slain, fallen by the sword,

Who ^bcaused terror in the land of the living.

²⁴“There is ^cElam and all her multitude,

All around her grave,

All of them slain, fallen by the sword,

Who have ^dgone down uncircumcised to the lower parts of the earth,

^eWho caused their terror in the land of the living;

Now they bear their shame with those who go down to the Pit.

²⁵They have set her ^fbed in the midst of the slain,

With all her multitude,

With her graves all around it,

All of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword;

Though their terror was caused

In the land of the living,

Yet they bear their shame

With those who go down to the Pit;

It was put in the midst of the slain.

²⁶“There are ^gMeshech and Tubal and all their multitudes,

With all their graves around it,

All of them ^huncircumcised, slain by the sword,

Though they caused their terror in the land of the living.

²⁷ⁱThey do not lie with the mighty

Who are fallen of the uncircumcised,

Who have gone down to hell with their weapons of war;

They have laid their swords under their heads,

But their iniquities will be on their bones,

Because of the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.

²⁸Yes, you shall be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised,

And lie with those slain by the sword.

²⁹“There is ^jEdom,

Her kings and all her princes,

Who despite their might

Are laid beside those slain by the sword;

They shall lie with the uncircumcised,

And with those who go down to the Pit.

^30kThere are the princes of the north,

All of them, and all the ^lSidonians,

Who have gone down with the slain

In shame at the terror which they caused by their might;

They lie uncircumcised with those slain by the sword,

And bear their shame with those who go down to the Pit.

³¹“Pharaoh will see them

And be ^mcomforted over all his multitude,

Pharaoh and all his army,

Slain by the sword,”

Says the Lord God.

³²“For I have caused My terror in the land of the living;

And he shall be placed in the midst of the uncircumcised

With those slain by the sword,

Pharaoh and all his multitude,”

Says the Lord God.