Ezekiel 32

¹ In the twelfth year, on the first day of the twelfth month, the word of Yahweh was addressed to me asfol ows,

² 'Son of man, raise a lament for Pharaoh king of Egypt. Say to him: "Young lion of nations, you aredestroyed! Once you were like a crocodile in the lagoons; emerging from your rivers, you churned up the waterwith your trampling and fouled their streams.

³ "The Lord Yahweh says this: I shal throw my net over you in a great concourse of nations; and theywil trawl you up in my net. Then I shal leave you high and dry,

⁴ I shal throw you out into the wilds and make al the birds of heaven settle on you, and glut all thebeasts of the earth with you.

⁵ I shal strew your flesh on your mountains and fil the val eys with your corruption;

⁶ I shal water the country with what flows from you, with your blood, on the mountainsides, and you wilfill the ravines.

⁷ When I extinguish you I shal cover the skies and darken the stars. I shall cover the sun with cloudsand the moon wil not give its light.

⁸ I shal dim every luminary in heaven because of you and cover your country in darkness -declares theLord Yahweh.

⁹ "I shall grieve the heart of many peoples when I bring about your destruction among the nations, incountries unknown to you.

¹⁰ I shal stun many peoples with shock at your fate; their kings wil tremble with horror at your fate,when I brandish my sword before their eyes. The day you fal , each wil tremble in terror for his life.

¹¹ For the Lord Yahweh says this: The sword of the king of Babylon wil overtake you.

¹² I shal make your throngs of subjects fall at the swords of my warriors. They are the most barbarousof nations. They wil annihilate the pride of Egypt, and al its throngs will be destroyed.

¹³ I shal also destroy al its cattle beside the plentiful waters. No human foot wil churn them, no animalfoot wil churn them up again;

¹⁴ then I shal let their waters settle and make their rivers glide like oil -- declares the Lord Yahweh.

¹⁵ "When I reduce Egypt to a ruin and the country is stripped of its contents, when I strike all those wholive there, they wil know that I am Yahweh.

¹⁶ "Such is the lament which the daughters of the nations wil raise. They wil raise it over Egypt and allits throng. This is the lament they will raise -- declares the Lord Yahweh." '

¹⁷ In the twelfth year, on the fifteenth day of the first month, the word of Yahweh was addressed to meas fol ows,

¹⁸ 'Son of man, lament over the throng of Egypt, for down she must go with the daughters of majesticnations to the depths of the underworld with those who sink into oblivion.

¹⁹ 'Whom do you surpass in beauty? Down with you, make your bed with the uncircumcised,

²⁰ with those who have been slaughtered by the sword. (The sword has been given, it has been drawn.)She and al her throngs have fallen.

²¹ From the depths of Sheol, the mightiest heroes, her al ies, wil say to her, "They have come down,they have lain down, uncircumcised, slaughtered by the sword."

²² 'Assyria is there and al her hordes, with their graves al round her; all of them slaughtered, fal en bythe sword;

²³ their graves have been made in the deepest part of the abyss, and her hordes, with their graves alround her; all of them slaughtered, kil ed by the sword, who once spread terror through the world of the living.

²⁴ 'Elam is there and al her throng round her grave, al of them slaughtered, fallen by the sword; theyhave gone down uncircumcised to the depths of the underworld, who once spread terror throughout the world ofthe living. They have borne their shame with those who sink into oblivion.

²⁵ Among the slaughtered, they have put a bed for her, among her throng with their tombs round her, alof them uncircumcised, slaughtered by the sword for having spread terror throughout the world of the living.They have borne their shame with those who sink into oblivion. They have been put among the slaughtered.

²⁶ 'Meshech, Tubal are there and al her throng, with their graves round her, al of them uncircumcised,slaughtered by the sword for having spread terror through the world of the living.

²⁷ They do not lie with the heroes who fell long ago, those who went down to Sheol ful y armed, whohad their swords laid under their heads and their shields put under their bones, since the heroes inspired theworld of the living with terror.

²⁸ But you wil be broken with the uncircumcised and lie with those slaughtered by the sword.

²⁹ 'Edom is there, her kings and al her princes who, despite their valour, have been laid with thoseslaughtered by the sword. They lie with the uncircumcised, with those who sink into oblivion.

³⁰ 'Al the princes of the north and al the Sidonians are there, who have gone down with theslaughtered, because of the terror which their power inspired. Ashamed, uncircumcised, they lie among thoseslaughtered by the sword and bear their shame with those who sink into oblivion.

³¹ 'Pharaoh wil see them and take comfort at the sight of al this throng slaughtered by the sword --Pharaoh and al his throng -- declares the Lord Yahweh.

³² For having spread terror through the world of the living, he wil be laid with the uncircumcised, withthose slaughtered by the sword, Pharaoh and al his throng -- declares the Lord Yahweh.'