¹In the twelfth year , in the twelfth month , in the first day of the month , the LORD ’s word came to me , saying ,

²“Son of man , take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt , and tell him ,

‘You were likened to a young lion of the nations ;

yet you are as a monster in the seas .

You broke out with your rivers ,

and troubled the waters with your feet ,

and fouled their rivers .’”

³The Lord GOD says :

“I will spread out my net on you with a company of many peoples .

They will bring you up in my net .

⁴I will leave you on the land .

I will cast you out on the open field ,

and will cause all the birds of the sky to settle on you .

I will satisfy the animals of the whole earth with you .

⁵I will lay your flesh on the mountains ,

and fill the valleys with your height .

⁶I will also water the land in which you swim with your blood ,

even to the mountains .

The watercourses will be full of you .

⁷When I extinguish you , I will cover the heavens

and make its stars dark .

I will cover the sun with a cloud ,

and the moon won’t give its light.

⁸I will make all the bright lights of the sky dark over you ,

and set darkness on your land ,” says the Lord GOD .

⁹“I will also trouble the hearts of many peoples ,

when I bring your destruction amongst the nations ,

into the countries which you have not known .

¹⁰Yes, I will make many peoples amazed at you ,

and their kings will be horribly afraid for you ,

when I brandish my sword before them .

They will tremble at every moment ,

every man for his own life ,

in the day of your fall .”

¹¹For the Lord GOD says :

“The sword of the king of Babylon will come on you .

¹²I will cause your multitude to fall by the swords of the mighty .

They are all the ruthless of the nations .

They will bring the pride of Egypt to nothing ,

and all its multitude will be destroyed .

¹³I will destroy also all its animals from beside many waters .

The foot of man won’t trouble them any more ,

nor will the hoofs of animals trouble them .

¹⁴Then I will make their waters clear,

and cause their rivers to run like oil ,”

says the Lord GOD .

¹⁵“When I make the land of Egypt desolate and waste ,

a land destitute of that of which it was full ,

when I strike all those who dwell therein ,

then they will know that I am the LORD .

¹⁶“‘“This is the lamentation with which they will lament . The daughters of the nations will lament with this . They will lament with it over Egypt , and over all her multitude ,” says the Lord GOD .’”

¹⁷Also in the twelfth year , in the fifteenth day of the month , the LORD ’s word came to me , saying ,

¹⁸“Son of man , wail for the multitude of Egypt , and cast them down , even her and the daughters of the famous nations , to the lower parts of the earth, with those who go down into the pit.

¹⁹Whom do you pass in beauty ? Go down , and be laid with the uncircumcised .

²⁰They will fall amongst those who are slain by the sword . She is delivered to the sword . Draw her away with all her multitudes .

²¹The strong amongst the mighty will speak to him out of the middle of Sheol with those who help him . They have gone down . The uncircumcised lie still , slain by the sword .[#32:21 Sheol is the place of the dead.]

²²“Asshur is there with all her company . Her graves are all around her . All of them are slain , fallen by the sword ,

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

²⁴“There is Elam and all her multitude around her grave ; all of them slain , fallen by the sword , who have gone down uncircumcised into the lower parts of the earth, who caused their terror in the land of the living , and have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit.

²⁵They have made Elam a bed amongst the slain with all her multitude . Her graves are around her , all of them uncircumcised , slain by the sword ; for their terror was caused in the land of the living , and they have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit. He is put amongst those who are slain .

²⁶“There is Meshech , Tubal , and all their multitude . Their graves are around them , all of them uncircumcised , slain by the sword ; for they caused their terror in the land of the living .

²⁷They will not lie with the mighty who are fallen of the uncircumcised , who have gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war and have laid their swords under their heads . Their iniquities are on their bones ; for they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living .

²⁸“But you will be broken amongst the uncircumcised , and will lie with those who are slain by the sword .

²⁹“There is Edom, her kings , and all her princes , who in their might are laid with those who are slain by the sword . They will lie with the uncircumcised , and with those who go down to the pit.

³⁰“There are the princes of the north , all of them , and all the Sidonians , who have gone down with the slain . They are put to shame in the terror which 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.

³¹“Pharaoh will see them and will be comforted over all his multitude , even Pharaoh and all his army , slain by the sword ,” says the Lord GOD .

³²“For I have put his terror in the land of the living . He will be laid amongst the uncircumcised , with those who are slain by the sword , even Pharaoh and all his multitude ,” says the Lord GOD .