Ezekiel 32

¹In the twelfth year , in the twelfth month , on the first day of the month , the word of the Lord came to me:

²Son of man , raise a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: You consider yourself a lion of 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 they 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 heavens 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 ravines 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 on your land , declares the Lord God.

⁹I will trouble the hearts of many peoples , when I bring your destruction among the nations , into the countries that you have not known .

¹⁰I will make many peoples appalled at you, and the hair of their kings shall bristle with horror 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 ruthless of nations . They shall bring to ruin 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 anymore , nor shall the hoofs of beasts trouble them.

¹⁴Then I will make their waters clear , and cause their rivers to run like oil , declares the Lord God.

¹⁵When I make the land of Egypt desolate , and when the land is desolate of all that fills it, when I strike down all who dwell in it, then they will know that I am the Lord.

¹⁶This is a lamentation that shall be chanted ; the daughters of the nations shall chant it; over Egypt , and over all her multitude , shall they chant it, declares the Lord God.

¹⁷In the twelfth year , in the twelfth month, on the fifteenth day of the month , the word of the Lord came to me:

¹⁸Son of man , wail over the multitude of Egypt , and send them down , her and the daughters of majestic nations , to the world below , to those who have gone down to the pit :

¹⁹Whom do you surpass in beauty ? Go down and be laid to rest with the uncircumcised .

²⁰They shall fall amid those who are slain by the sword . Egypt is delivered to the sword ; drag her away , and all her multitudes .

²¹The mighty chiefs shall speak of them, with their helpers , out of the midst of Sheol : They have come down , they lie still , the uncircumcised , slain by the sword .

²²Assyria is there , and all her company , its graves all around it, all of them slain , fallen by the sword ,

²³whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit ; and her company is all around her grave , all of them slain , fallen by the sword , who spread terror in the land of the living .

²⁴Elam is there , and all her multitude around her grave ; all of them slain , fallen by the sword , who went down uncircumcised into the world below , who spread their terror in the land of the living ; and they bear their shame with those who go down to the pit .

²⁵They have made her a bed among the slain with all her multitude , her graves all around it, all of them uncircumcised , slain by the sword ; for terror of them was spread in the land of the living , and they bear their shame with those who go down to the pit ; they are placed among the slain .

²⁶Meshech-Tubal is there , and all her multitude , her graves all around it, all of them uncircumcised , slain by the sword ; for they spread their terror in the land of the living .

²⁷And they do not lie with the mighty , the fallen from among the uncircumcised , who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war , whose swords were laid under their heads , and whose iniquities are upon their bones ; for the terror of the mighty men was in the land of the living .

²⁸But as for you, you shall be broken and lie among the uncircumcised , with those who are slain by the sword .

²⁹Edom is there , her kings and all her princes , who for all their might are laid with those who are killed by the sword ; they lie with the uncircumcised , with those who go down to the pit .

³⁰The princes of the north are there , all of them, and all the Sidonians , who have gone down in shame with the slain , for all the terror that they caused by their might ; they lie uncircumcised with those who are slain by the sword , and bear their shame with those who go down to the pit .

³¹When Pharaoh sees them, he will be comforted for all his multitude , Pharaoh and all his army , slain by the sword , declares the Lord God.

³²For I spread terror in the land of the living ; and he shall be laid to rest among the uncircumcised , with those who are slain by the sword , Pharaoh and all his multitude , declares the Lord God.