Ezekiel 32 (New American Standard)

Lament over Pharaoh and Egypt

1 In the ¹twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first of the month, the word of the LORD came to me saying, 2 "Son of man, take up a ²lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him, 'You ^acompared yourself to a young ³lion of the nations, Yet you are like the ⁴monster in the seas ; And you ⁵burst forth in your rivers And muddied the waters with your feet And ^bfouled their rivers.' " 3 Thus says the Lord ^cGOD, "Now I will ⁶spread My net over you With a company of many peoples, And they shall lift you up in My net. 4 "I will leave you on the land ; I will cast you on the ^dopen field. And I will cause all the ⁷birds of the heavens to dwell on you, And I will satisfy the beasts of the whole earth ^ewith you. 5 "I will lay your flesh ⁸on the mountains And fill the valleys with your refuse. 6 "I will also make the land drink the discharge of your ⁹blood As far as the mountains, And the ravines will be full of you. 7 "And when I ¹⁰extinguish you, I will ¹¹cover the heavens and darken their ¹²stars ; I will cover the ¹³sun with a cloud And the moon will not give its light. 8 "All the shining ¹⁴lights in the heavens I will darken over you And will set darkness on your land," Declares the Lord GOD. 9 "I will also ¹⁵trouble the hearts of many peoples when I ¹⁶bring your destruction among the nations, into lands which you have not known. 10 "I will make many peoples ¹⁷appalled at you, and their kings will be horribly afraid of you when I brandish My sword before them; and ¹⁸they will tremble every moment, every man for his own life, on the day of your fall." 11 For ¹⁹thus says the Lord GOD, "The sword of the king of Babylon will come upon you. 12 "By the swords of the mighty ones I will cause your hordes to fall ; all of them are ²⁰tyrants of the nations, And they will ²¹devastate the pride of Egypt, And all its hordes will be destroyed. 13 "I will also destroy all its cattle from beside many waters ; And ²²the foot of man will not muddy them anymore And the hoofs of beasts will not muddy them. 14 "Then I will make their waters settle And will cause their rivers to run like oil," Declares the Lord GOD. 15 "When I make the land of Egypt a ²³desolation, And the land is destitute of that which filled it, When I smite all those who live in it, Then they shall ²⁴know that I am the LORD. 16 "This is a ²⁵lamentation and they shall ^fchant it. The daughters of the nations shall ^gchant it. Over Egypt and over all her hordes they shall ^hchant it," declares the Lord GOD. 17 In the ²⁶twelfth year, on the ²⁷fifteenth of the month, the word of the LORD came to me saying, 18 "Son of man, ²⁸wail for the hordes of Egypt and ²⁹bring it down, her and the daughters of the powerful nations, to the ³⁰nether world, with those who go down to the pit ; 19 'Whom do you surpass in beauty ? Go down and make your bed with the ³¹uncircumcised.' 20 "They shall fall in the midst of those who are slain by the sword. ⁱShe is given over to the sword ; they have ³²drawn her and all her hordes away. 21 "The ³³strong among the mighty ones shall speak of him and his helpers from the midst of Sheol, 'They have gone down, they lie still, the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.' 22 "³⁴Assyria is there and all her company ; ^jher graves are round about ^kher. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword, 23 whose ³⁵graves are set in the remotest parts of the pit and her company is round about her grave. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword, who ^lspread terror in the land of the living. 24 "³⁶Elam is there and all her hordes around her grave ; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who went down uncircumcised to the ³⁷lower parts of the earth, who instilled their terror in the ³⁸land of the living and ³⁹bore their disgrace with those who went down to the pit. 25 "They have made a ⁴⁰bed for her among the slain with all her hordes. Her graves are around it, they are all uncircumcised, slain by the sword (although their terror was ^minstilled in the land of the living ), and they bore their disgrace with those who go down to the pit ; ⁿthey were put in the midst of the slain. 26 "⁴¹Meshech, ⁴²Tubal and all their hordes are there ; their graves ^osurround them. All of them were slain by the sword ⁴³uncircumcised, though they instilled their terror in the land of the living. 27 "⁴⁴Nor do they lie beside the fallen ^p45heroes of the uncircumcised, who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war and whose swords were laid under their heads ; but the punishment for their ⁴⁶iniquity rested on their bones, though the terror of these ^qheroes was once in the land of the living. 28 "But in the midst of the uncircumcised you will be broken and lie with those slain by the sword. 29 "There also is ⁴⁷Edom, its kings and all its ^rprinces, who ^sfor all their might are laid with those slain by the sword ; they will lie with the uncircumcised and with those who go down to the pit. 30 "There also are the ^tchiefs of the ⁴⁸north, all of them, and all the ⁴⁹Sidonians, who in spite of the terror resulting from their might, in shame went down with the slain. So they lay down uncircumcised with those slain by the sword and bore their disgrace with those who go down to the pit. 31 "These Pharaoh will see, and he will be ⁵⁰comforted for all his hordes slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his army," declares the Lord GOD. 32 "Though I instilled a terror of him in the land of the living, yet he will be made to lie down among the uncircumcised along with those slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his hordes," declares the Lord GOD.