Ezekiel 32 New King James Version

Lamentation for Pharaoh and Egypt

32 And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the ^(A)twelfth month, on the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ²“Son of man, ^(B)take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him:

^(C)‘You are like a young lion among the nations,
And ^(D)you are like a monster in the seas,
^(E)Bursting forth in your rivers,
Troubling the waters with your feet,
And ^(F)fouling their rivers.

³‘Thus says the Lord God:

“I will therefore ^(G)spread My net over you with a company of many people,
And they will draw you up in My net.
⁴Then ^(H)I will leave you on the land;
I will cast you out on the open fields,
^(I)And cause to ^[a]settle on you all the birds of the heavens.
And with you I will fill the beasts of the whole earth.
⁵I will lay your flesh ^(J)on the mountains,
And fill the valleys with your carcass.

⁶“I will also water the land with the flow of your blood,
Even to the mountains;
And the riverbeds will be full of you.
⁷When I put out your light,
^(K)I will cover the heavens, and make its stars dark;
I will cover the sun with a cloud,
And the moon shall not give her light.
⁸All the ^[b]bright lights of the heavens I will make dark over you,
And bring darkness upon your land,”
Says the Lord God.

⁹‘I will also trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries which you have not known. ¹⁰Yes, I will make many peoples astonished at you, and their kings shall be horribly afraid of you when I brandish My sword before them; and ^(L)they shall tremble every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of your fall.

¹¹^(M)‘For thus says the Lord God: “The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon you. ¹²By the swords of the mighty warriors, all of them ^(N)the most terrible of the nations, I will cause your multitude to fall.

^(O)“They shall plunder the pomp of Egypt,
And all its multitude shall be destroyed.
¹³Also I will destroy all its animals
From beside its great waters;
^(P)The foot of man shall muddy them no more,
Nor shall the hooves of animals muddy them.
¹⁴Then I will make their waters ^[c]clear,
And make their rivers run like oil,”
Says the Lord God.

¹⁵“When I make the land of Egypt desolate,
And the country is destitute of all that once filled it,
When I strike all who dwell in it,
^(Q)Then they shall know that I am the Lord.

¹⁶“This is the ^(R)lamentation
With which they shall lament her;
The daughters of the nations shall lament her;
They shall lament for her, for Egypt,
And for all her multitude,”
Says the Lord God.’ ”

Egypt and Others Consigned to the Pit

¹⁷It came to pass also in the twelfth year, on the fifteenth day of the month, ^(S)that the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

¹⁸“Son of man, wail over the multitude of Egypt,
And ^(T)cast them down to the depths of the earth,
Her and the daughters of the famous nations,
With those who go down to the Pit:
¹⁹‘Whom ^(U)do you surpass in beauty?
^(V)Go down, be placed with the uncircumcised.’

²⁰“They shall fall in the midst of those slain by the sword;
She is delivered to the sword,
^(W)Drawing her and all her multitudes.
²¹^(X)The strong among the mighty
Shall speak to him out of the midst of hell
With those who help him:
‘They have ^(Y)gone down,
They lie with the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.’

²²“Assyria^(Z) is there, and all her company,
With their graves all around her,
All of them slain, fallen by the sword.
²³^(AA)Her graves are set in the recesses of the Pit,
And her company is all around her grave,
All of them slain, fallen by the sword,
Who ^(AB)caused terror in the land of the living.

²⁴“There is ^(AC)Elam and all her multitude,
All around her grave,
All of them slain, fallen by the sword,
Who have ^(AD)gone down uncircumcised to the lower parts of the earth,
^(AE)Who caused their terror in the land of the living;
Now they bear their shame with those who go down to the Pit.
²⁵They have set her ^(AF)bed in the midst of the slain,
With all her multitude,
With her graves all around it,
All of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword;
Though their terror was caused
In the land of the living,
Yet they bear their shame
With those who go down to the Pit;
It was put in the midst of the slain.

²⁶“There are ^(AG)Meshech and Tubal and all their multitudes,
With all their graves around it,
All of them ^(AH)uncircumcised, slain by the sword,
Though they caused their terror in the land of the living.
²⁷^(AI)They do not lie with the mighty
Who are fallen of the uncircumcised,
Who have gone down to hell with their weapons of war;
They have laid their swords under their heads,
But their iniquities will be on their bones,
Because of the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.
²⁸Yes, you shall be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised,
And lie with those slain by the sword.

²⁹“There is ^(AJ)Edom,
Her kings and all her princes,
Who despite their might
Are laid beside those slain by the sword;
They shall lie with the uncircumcised,
And with those who go down to the Pit.
³⁰^(AK)There are the princes of the north,
All of them, and all the ^(AL)Sidonians,
Who have gone down with the slain
In shame at the terror which they caused by their might;
They lie uncircumcised with those slain by the sword,
And bear their shame with those who go down to the Pit.

³¹“Pharaoh will see them
And be ^(AM)comforted over all his multitude,
Pharaoh and all his army,
Slain by the sword,”
Says the Lord God.

³²“For I have caused My terror in the land of the living;
And he shall be placed in the midst of the uncircumcised
With those slain by the sword,
Pharaoh and all his multitude,”
Says the Lord God.