Ezekiel 32:1-16

New International Version - UK

‘“You are like a lion among the nations;
    you are like a monster in the seas
thrashing about in your streams,
    churning the water with your feet
    and muddying the streams.

‘“With a great throng of people
    I will cast my net over you,
    and they will haul you up in my net.
⁴ I will throw you on the land
    and hurl you on the open field.
I will let all the birds of the sky settle on you
    and all the wild animals gorge themselves on you.
⁵ I will spread your flesh on the mountains
    and fill the valleys with your remains.
⁶ I will drench the land with your flowing blood
    all the way to the mountains,
    and the ravines will be filled with your flesh.
⁷ When I snuff you out, I will cover the heavens
    and darken their stars;
I will cover the sun with a cloud,
    and the moon will not give its light.
⁸ All the shining lights in the heavens
    I will darken over you;
    I will bring darkness over your land,
declares the Sovereign Lord.
⁹ I will trouble the hearts of many peoples
    when I bring about your destruction among the nations,
    among^[a] lands you have not known.
¹⁰ I will cause many peoples to be appalled at you,
    and their kings will shudder with horror because of you
    when I brandish my sword before them.
On the day of your downfall
    each of them will tremble
    every moment for his life.

‘“The sword of the king of Babylon
    will come against you.
¹² I will cause your hordes to fall
    by the swords of mighty men –
    the most ruthless of all nations.
They will shatter the pride of Egypt,
    and all her hordes will be overthrown.
¹³ I will destroy all her cattle
    from beside abundant waters
no longer to be stirred by the foot of man
    or muddied by the hooves of cattle.
¹⁴ Then I will let her waters settle
    and make her streams flow like oil,
declares the Sovereign Lord.
¹⁵ When I make Egypt desolate
    and strip the land of everything in it,
when I strike down all who live there,
    then they will know that I am the Lord.”