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,
02 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.
03 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.
04 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.
05 And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains,
and fill the valleys with thy height.
06 I will also water with thy blood the land
wherein thou swimmest, even to the mountains; and
the rivers shall be full of thee.
07 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.
08 All the bright lights of heaven will I make
dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land,
saith the Lord God.
09 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.
10 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.
11 For thus saith the Lord God; The sword of the
king of Babylon shall come upon thee.
12 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.
13 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.
14 Then will I make their waters deep, and cause
their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord God.
15 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.
16 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.
17 It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in
the fifteenth day of the month, that the word of
the Lord came unto me, saying,
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18 Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt,
and cast them down, even her, and the daughters
of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of
the earth, with them that go down into the pit.
19 Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be
thou laid with the uncircumcised.
20 They shall fall in the midst of them that are
slain by the sword: she is delivered to the
sword: draw her and all her multitudes.
21 The strong among the mighty shall speak to him
out of the midst of hell with them that help him:
they are gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain
by the sword.
22 Asshur is there and all her company: his
graves are about him: all of them slain, fallen
by the sword:
23 Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit,
and her company is round about her grave: all of
them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused
terror in the land of the living.
24 There is Elam and all her multitude round
about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the
sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into the
nether parts of the earth, which caused their
terror in the land of the living; yet have they
borne their shame with them that go down to the
pit.
25 They have set her a bed in the midst of the
slain with all her multitude: her graves are
round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain
by the sword: though their terror was caused in
the land of the living, yet have they borne their
shame with them that go down to the pit: he is
put in the midst of them that be slain.
26 There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her
multitude: her graves are round about him: all of
them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though
they caused their terror in the land of the
living.
27 And they shall not lie with the mighty that
are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone
down to hell with their weapons of war: and they
have laid their swords under their heads, but
their iniquities shall be upon their bones,
though they were the terror of the mighty in the
land of the living.
28 Yea, thou shalt be broken in the midst of the
uncircumcised, and shalt lie with them that are
slain with the sword.
29 There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes,
which with their might are laid by them that were
slain by the sword: they shall lie with the
uncircumcised, and with them that go down to the
pit.
30 There be the princes of the north, all of
them, and all the Zidonians, which are gone down
with the slain; with their terror they are
ashamed of their might; and they lie
uncircumcised with them that be slain by the
sword, and bear their shame with them that go
down to the pit.
31 Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted
over all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his
army slain by the sword, saith the Lord God.
32 For I have caused my terror in the land of the
living: and he shall be laid in the midst of the
uncircumcised with them that are slain with the
sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith
the Lord God.
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