Ezekiel 32:2–16

²“Son of man, raise a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him:

“You consider yourself a lion among the nations,

but you are like a dragon in the seas;

you burst forth in your rivers,

trouble the waters with your feet,

and foul their rivers.

³Thus says the Lord GOD:

I will throw my net over you

with a host of many peoples;

and I will haul you up in my dragnet.

⁴And I will cast you on the ground,

on the open field I will fling you,

and will cause all the birds of the air to settle on you,

and I will gorge the beasts of the whole earth with you.

⁵I will strew your flesh upon the mountains,

and fill the valleys with your carcass.

⁶I will drench the land even to the mountains

with your flowing blood;

and the watercourses will be full of you.

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

and make their stars dark;

I will cover the sun with a cloud,

and the moon shall not give its light.

⁸All the bright lights of heaven

will I make dark over you,

and put darkness upon your land,

says the Lord GOD.

⁹“I will trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I carry you captive among the nations, into the countries which you have not known. ¹⁰I will make many peoples appalled at you, and their kings shall shudder because of you, when I brandish my sword before them; they shall tremble every moment, every one for his own life, on the day of your downfall. ¹¹For thus says the Lord GOD: The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon you. ¹²I will cause your multitude to fall by the swords of mighty ones, all of them most terrible among the nations.

“They shall bring to nought the pride of Egypt,

and all its multitude shall perish.

¹³I will destroy all its beasts

from beside many waters;

and no foot of man shall trouble them any more,

nor shall the hoofs of beasts trouble them.

¹⁴Then I will make their waters clear,

and cause their rivers to run like oil, says the Lord GOD.

¹⁵When I make the land of Egypt desolate

and when the land is stripped of all that fills it,

when I smite all who dwell in it,

then they will know that I am the Lord.

¹⁶This is a lamentation which shall be chanted; the daughters of the nations shall chant it; over Egypt, and over all her multitude, shall they chant it, says the Lord GOD.”