¹⁷ Now it happened in the ^(A)twelfth year, on the ^(B)fifteenth of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me saying, ¹⁸ “Son of man, ^(C)wail for the hordes of Egypt and ^(D)bring it down, her and the daughters of the powerful nations, to the ^(E)nether world, with those who go down to the pit;

²⁰ They shall fall in the midst of those who are slain by the sword. ^[a]She is given over to the sword; they have ^(G)drawn her and all her multitude away. ²¹ The ^[b](H)dominant among the mighty ones shall speak of him and his helpers from the midst of Sheol, ‘They have gone down, they lie still, the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.’

²² “^(I)Assyria is there and all her assembly; ^[c]her graves are round about ^[d]her. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword, ²³ whose ^(J)graves are put in the remotest parts of the pit, and her assembly is all round about her grave. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword, who put terror in the land of the living.

²⁴ “^(K)Elam is there and all her multitude all around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who went down uncircumcised to the ^(L)lower parts of the earth, who put their terror in the ^(M)land of the living and ^(N)bore their dishonor with those who went down to the pit. ²⁵ They have put a ^(O)bed for her among the slain with all her multitude. Her graves are all around it; all of them are uncircumcised, slain by the sword (although their terror was put in the land of the living), and they bore their dishonor with those who go down to the pit; ^[e]they were put in the midst of the slain.

²⁶ “^(P)Meshech, ^(Q)Tubal, and all their multitude are there; their graves are all around them. All of them were slain by the sword ^(R)uncircumcised, though they put their terror in the land of the living. ^27 (S)Nor do they lie beside the fallen ^(T)mighty ones of the uncircumcised, who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war and whose swords were put under their heads; but the punishment for their ^(U)iniquity rested on their bones, though the terror of these mighty ones was once in the land of the living. ²⁸ But as for you, in the midst of the uncircumcised you will be broken and lie with those slain by the sword.

²⁹ “There also is ^(V)Edom, its kings, and all its ^[f]princes, who ^[g]for all their might are put with those slain by the sword; they will lie with the uncircumcised and with those who go down to the pit.

³⁰ “There also are the ^[h]chiefs of the ^(W)north, all of them, and all the ^(X)Sidonians, who in spite of the terror resulting from their might, in shame went down with the slain. So they lay down uncircumcised with those slain by the sword and bore their dishonor with those who go down to the pit.

³¹ “These Pharaoh will see, and he will be ^(Y)comforted for all his multitude slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his military force,” declares Lord Yahweh. ³² “Though I put a terror of him in the land of the living, yet he will be made to lie down among the uncircumcised along with those slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his hordes,” declares Lord Yahweh.