Ezekiel 32:2–16

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.”