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And it came to pass in the twelfth* year, in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
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Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale* in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.
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Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will therefore spread out my net over thee with a company of many people; and they shall bring thee up in my net.
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Then will I leave thee upon the land, I will cast thee forth upon the open field, and will cause all the fowls of the heaven to remain upon thee, and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with thee.
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And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height.
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I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest, even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of thee.
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And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.
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All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD.
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I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not known.
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Yea, I will make many people amazed at thee, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for thee, when I shall brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of thy fall.
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For thus saith the Lord GOD; The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee.
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By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall, the terrible of the nations, all of them: and they shall spoil the pomp of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed.
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I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside the great waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them.
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Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord GOD.
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When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and the country shall be destitute of that whereof it was full, when I shall smite all them that dwell therein, then shall they know that I am the LORD.
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This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament her: the daughters of the nations shall lament her: they shall lament for her, even for Egypt, and for all her multitude, saith the Lord GOD.
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