Ezekiel 32:1-8

New American Standard Bible

Grief over Pharaoh and Egypt

32 In the ^(A)twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ²“Son of man, take up a ^(B)song of mourning over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him,

‘You ^[a]compared yourself to a young ^(C)lion of the nations,
Yet you are like the ^(D)monster in the seas;
And you ^(E)burst forth in your rivers
And muddied the waters with your feet
And ^[b]fouled their rivers.’”

³This is what the Lord ^[c]God says:

“Now I will ^(F)spread My net over you
With a contingent of many peoples,
And they will lift you up in My net.
⁴I will leave you on the land;
I will hurl you on the ^[d]open field.
And I will cause all the ^(G)birds of the sky to ^[e]nest on you,
And I will satisfy the animals of the whole earth ^[f]with you.
⁵I will lay your flesh ^(H)on the mountains
And fill the valleys with your refuse.
⁶I will also make the land drink the discharge of your ^(I)blood
As far as the mountains,
And the ravines will be full of you.
⁷And when I ^(J)extinguish you,
I will ^(K)cover the heavens and darken their ^(L)stars;
I will cover the ^(M)sun with a cloud
And the moon will not give its light.
⁸All the shining ^(N)lights in the heavens
I will darken over you
And will set darkness on your land,”
Declares the Lord God.