²⁰ They will fall among those killed by the sword. The sword is drawn; let her be dragged^(A) off with all her hordes.^(B)

²³ Their graves are in the depths of the pit^(A) and her army lies around her grave.^(B) All who had spread terror in the land of the living are slain, fallen by the sword.

²⁴ “Elam^(C) is there, with all her hordes around her grave. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword.^(D) All who had spread terror in the land of the living^(E) went down uncircumcised to the earth below. They bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.^{(F) 25} A bed is made for her among the slain, with all her hordes around her grave. All of them are uncircumcised,^(G) killed by the sword. Because their terror had spread in the land of the living, they bear their shame with those who go down to the pit; they are laid among the slain.

²⁶ “Meshek and Tubal^(H) are there, with all their hordes around their graves. All of them are uncircumcised, killed by the sword because they spread their terror in the land of the living.

²⁹ “Edom^(A) is there, her kings and all her princes; despite their power, they are laid with those killed by the sword. They lie with the uncircumcised, with those who go down to the pit.^(B)

³⁰ “All the princes of the north^(C) and all the Sidonians^(D) are there; they went down with the slain in disgrace despite the terror caused by their power. They lie uncircumcised^(E) with those killed by the sword and bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.^(F)

⁸ “‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will bring a sword against you and kill both man and beast.^{(A) 9} Egypt will become a desolate wasteland. Then they will know that I am the Lord.

“‘Because you said, “The Nile^(B) is mine; I made it,^(C)” ¹⁰ therefore I am against you^(D) and against your streams, and I will make the land of Egypt^(E) a ruin and a desolate waste^(F) from Migdol^(G) to Aswan,^(H) as far as the border of Cush.^{[a](I) 11} The foot of neither man nor beast will pass through it; no one will live there for forty years.^{(J) 12} I will make the land of Egypt desolate^(K) among devastated lands, and her cities will lie desolate forty years among ruined cities. And I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them through the countries.^(L)