Lament for Egypt's Collapse and Descent into Sheol
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Chapter 32
1It was in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first of the month: the word of the LORD came to me, saying.2Son of Adam, raise a lament over Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: "Lion of nations, you are silenced! And you, sea-monster in the seas, you thrashed in your rivers and muddied waters with your feet and trampled their rivers."3Thus says the Lord GOD: I will spread my net over you with an assembly of many peoples, and I will bring you up in my net.4And I will abandon you on the land, on the face of the field. I will hurl you, and I will cause all the birds of the heavens to dwell upon you, and I will satisfy the beasts of all the earth from you.5And I will give your flesh upon the mountains, and I will fill the valleys with your heights.6And I will drench the earth with your dripping blood as it flows from you to the mountains, and the valleys will fill with you.7And I will cover the heavens and darken their stars. I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon will not shine its light.8I will darken all the light sources of light in the heavens over you, and I will bring darkness over your land—the utterance of the Lord GOD.9I will provoke the hearts of many peoples when I bring you among the nations, into lands you did not know.10I will make many peoples appalled at you, and their kings will be appalled at you with horror at the sight of my sword upon their faces. Every man will shudder for his nephesh on the day of your downfall.11For thus has the Lord GOD said: "The sword of the king of Babel will come upon you."12By the swords of mighty men I will fell your multitude, tyrants of nations. They all will plunder the hubris of Egypt, and all the multitude will be destroyed.13And I will destroy all her beasts from upon many waters, and no human foot will muddy them anymore, nor will the hooves of beasts muddy them.14Then I will make their waters sink and their rivers flow like oil, says the Lord GOD.15When I make the land of Egypt desolate and the earth empty of life by striking all the inhabitants in it, they will know that I am the LORD.16It is a lament, and the daughters of the nations will bewail her. They will lament her over Egypt and over all her multitude; they will lament her—oracle of the Lord GOD.17It was in the twelfth year, on the fifteenth of the month, when the word of the LORD came to me, saying.18Son of man, wail over the multitude of Egypt and make them go down there, her and the daughters of nations. I will make them go down to the land of the lower parts, those going down to the pit.19With whom were you pleasant? Go down and lie down with the uncircumcised.20In the midst of the profaned of the sword they will fall; the sword was given—it drew her, and all her multitude.21The mighty men will speak to him out of the midst of Sheol, mighty men. His helpers have gone down; they lie down, the uncircumcised, profaning ones of "cut off."22There is Assyria and all its assembly around it, its burial sites, all of them profaned ones, fallen ones by the sword.23which they gave her graves at the flanks of the pit, and her assembly was around her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which they gave terrors in the land of the living.24There is Elam and all its multitude around its burial site, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who went down uncircumcised to the land of the lowest depths, which gave their terror in the land of the living; and they bore their shame with those going down to the pit.25In the midst of the profaned they have given him a lying-down in the midst of all his multitude all around it. It has buried all of them—uncircumcised, profaned by the sword—for he has granted their terror in the land of the living. And they bear their reproach with those going down to the pit. In the midst of the profaned he has given.26There is Meshech, Tabel and all its multitude around it, their graves all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, for they granted their terror in the land of the living.27And they do not lie with the mighty men fallen uncircumcised who descended to Sheol with vessels of their warfare, and they placed their swords under their heads, and their iniquity was on their bones, for terror of mighty men in the land of the living.28And you will be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised and will lie with those profaned by the sword.29There are Edom, its kings, and all its princes, who were given among the mighty ones slain by the sword—they lie with the uncircumcised and with those who go down to the pit.30There are the chieftains of the North, all of them, and all the Zidonians who went down with the profaned in their terror from their might; they are shamed and lie uncircumcised with the profaned of the sword, and they bear their terror with those going down to the pit.31Pharaoh will see them and be comforted over all his multitude, the slain of Pharaoh's sword and all his host, declares the Lord GOD.32For I have given my sword in the land of the living, and he lies in the midst of the uncircumcised, the profaned ones by the sword of Pharaoh and all his multitude—oracle of the Lord GOD.