^(B)“Wail, ‘Alas for the day!’
^{3     (C)}For the day is near,
    ^(D)the day of the Lord is near;
it will be ^(E)a day of clouds,
    a time of doom for^[a] the nations.
^4 (F)A sword shall come upon Egypt,
    ^(G)and anguish shall be in ^(H)Cush,
when the slain fall in Egypt,
    and ^(I)her wealth^[b] is carried away,
    and ^(J)her foundations are torn down.

⁶ “Thus says the Lord:
^(N)Those who support Egypt shall fall,
    and ^(O)her proud might shall come down;
^(P)from Migdol to Syene
    they shall fall within her by the sword,
declares the Lord God.
^7 (Q)And they shall be desolated in the midst of desolated countries,
    and their cities shall be in the midst of cities that are laid waste.
^8 (R)Then they will know that I am the Lord,
    when ^(S)I have set fire to Egypt,
    and ^(T)all her helpers are broken.

^(X)“I will put an end to the wealth of Egypt,
    by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.
¹¹ He and his people with him, ^(Y)the most ruthless of nations,
    shall be brought in to destroy the land,
^(Z)and they shall draw their swords against Egypt
    and fill the land with the slain.
¹² And ^(AA)I will ^(AB)dry up the Nile
    and will sell the land into the hand of ^(AC)evildoers;
^(AD)I will bring desolation upon the land and everything in it,
    by the hand of ^(AE)foreigners;
^(AF)I am the Lord; I have spoken.

^(AG)“I will destroy the idols
    and put an end to the images in ^(AH)Memphis;
^(AI)there shall no longer be a prince from the land of Egypt;
    so ^(AJ)I will put fear in the land of Egypt.
¹⁴ I will make ^(AK)Pathros a desolation
    and will set fire to ^(AL)Zoan
    ^(AM)and will execute judgments on ^(AN)Thebes.
¹⁵ And I will pour out my wrath on Pelusium,
    the stronghold of Egypt,
    and cut off the multitude^[f] of Thebes.
¹⁶ And I will set fire to Egypt;
    Pelusium shall be in great agony;
Thebes shall be breached,
    and ^(AO)Memphis shall face enemies^[g] by day.
¹⁷ The young men of On and of Pi-beseth shall fall by the sword,
    and the women^[h] shall go into captivity.
¹⁸ At ^(AP)Tehaphnehes ^(AQ)the day shall be dark,
    when I break there the yoke bars of Egypt,
and ^(AR)her proud might shall come to an end in her;
    she shall be covered by a cloud,
    and her daughters shall go into captivity.
¹⁹ Thus ^(AS)I will execute judgments on Egypt.
    ^(AT)Then they will know that I am the Lord.”

^(BI)“Whom are you like in your greatness?
³     Behold, ^(BJ)Assyria was a ^(BK)cedar in ^(BL)Lebanon,
with beautiful branches and ^(BM)forest shade,
    ^(BN)and of towering height,
    its top among the clouds.^[i]
4 The waters nourished it;
    the deep made it grow tall,
making ^(BO)its rivers flow
    around the place of its planting,
sending forth its streams
    to all the trees of the field.
⁵ So ^(BP)it towered high
    above all the trees of the field;
its boughs grew large
    and its branches long
    from ^(BQ)abundant water in its shoots.
^6 (BR)All the birds of the heavens
    made their nests in its boughs;
under its branches all the beasts of the field
    gave birth to their young,
and under its shadow
    lived all great nations.
⁷ It was ^(BS)beautiful in its greatness,
    in the length of its branches;
^(BT)for its roots went down
    to abundant waters.
^8 (BU)The cedars ^(BV)in the garden of God could not rival it,
    nor the fir trees equal its boughs;
neither were the plane trees
    like its branches;
no tree ^(BW)in the garden of God
    was its equal in beauty.
⁹ I made it beautiful
    in the mass of its branches,
and all the trees of ^(BX)Eden envied it,
    that were in the garden of God.