Ezekiel 32:1-16

The Voice

    You imagine yourself a lion moving mightily through the nations,
        but you’re really like the great sea monster
    Rampaging through the waterways—muddying up the streams
        and fouling the rivers with your feet.

³     So I, the Eternal One, say:
        I will use a company of many people to cover you with My net
    Using the nations to make the trap.
        Once you are caught, they will haul you up in My net.
⁴     I will leave you on dry land
        and cast you in an open field.
    I will summon the birds of the sky to land on you and feast on your flesh.
        I will bring the wild beasts of the earth to satisfy their hunger with you.
⁵     I will scatter bits and pieces of you on the hills
        and fill the valleys with your remains.
⁶     I will see that the land drinks your flowing blood
        as it streams to the mountains and fills the dry riverbeds.
⁷     When I blot you out, I will cover the heavens and dim the stars;
        I will hide the sun behind a cloud, and the moon will not shine.
⁸     I will darken the lights that shine in the heavens
        and shroud your land in darkness.

    They will hack the pride of Egypt to pieces
        and slaughter her vast population.
¹³     I will destroy all her livestock that drink from the abundant rivers and streams
        so they will no longer be muddied by the feet of man or beast.
¹⁴     Once they are gone, I will settle the waters of Egypt
        and let them flow as smoothly as olive oil.
¹⁵     After I make the land of Egypt a wasteland,
        strip the land bare, and crush all of her inhabitants,
    Then they will know that I am the Eternal One.

¹⁶     This is the lament they will sing over her. The daughters of the nations will mourn
        and sing for Egypt and for all her people.