1And it came to pass in the twelfth year , in the twelfth month , in the first day of the month , that the word of Jehovah came unto me , saying , 2Son of man , take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt , and say unto him , Thou wast likened unto a young lion of the nations : yet art thou as a monster in the seas ; and thou didst break forth with thy rivers , and troubledst the waters with thy feet , and fouledst their rivers . 3Thus saith the Lord Jehovah : I will spread out my net upon thee with a company of many peoples ; and they shall bring thee up in my net . 4And I will leave thee upon the land , I will cast thee forth upon the open field , and will cause all the birds of the heavens to settle upon thee , and I will satisfy the beasts of the whole earth with thee . 5And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains , and fill the valleys with thy height . 6I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest , even to the mountains ; and the watercourses shall be full of thee. 7And when I shall extinguish thee, I will cover the heavens , and make the stars thereof dark ; I will cover the sun with a cloud , and the moon shall not give its light. 8All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee , and set darkness upon thy land , saith the Lord Jehovah . 9I will also vex the hearts of many peoples , when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations , into the countries which thou hast not known . 10Yea, I will make many peoples amazed at thee , and their kings shall be horribly afraid for thee , when I shall brandish my sword before them ; and they shall tremble at every moment , every man for his own life , in the day of thy fall . 11For thus saith the Lord Jehovah : The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee. 12By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall ; the terrible of the nations are they all : and they shall bring to nought the pride of Egypt , and all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed . 13I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside many waters ; neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more , nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them . 14Then will I make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to run like oil , saith the Lord Jehovah . 15When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate and waste , a land destitute of that whereof it was full , when I shall smite all them that dwell therein , then shall they know that I am Jehovah . 16This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament ; the daughters of the nations shall lament therewith; over Egypt , and over all her multitude , shall they lament therewith, saith the Lord Jehovah .
The Destruction of Egypt
17It came to pass also in the twelfth year , in the fifteenth day of the month , that the word of Jehovah came unto me , saying , 18Son of man , wail for the multitude of Egypt , and cast them down , even her , and the daughters of the famous nations , unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit. 19Whom dost thou pass in beauty ? go down , and be thou laid with the uncircumcised . 20They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the sword : she is delivered to the sword ; draw her away and all her multitudes . 21The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of Sheol with them that help him : they are gone down , they lie still , even the uncircumcised , slain by the sword . 22Asshur is there and all her company ; her graves are round about her ; all of them slain , fallen by the sword ; 23whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit, and her company is round about her grave ; all of them slain , fallen by the sword , who caused terror in the land of the living . 24There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave ; all of them slain , fallen by the sword , who are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, who caused their terror in the land of the living , and have borne their shame with them that go down to the pit. 25They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude ; her graves are round about her ; all of them uncircumcised , slain by the sword ; for their terror was caused in the land of the living , and they have borne their shame with them that go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of them that are slain . 26There is Meshech , Tubal , and all their multitude ; their graves are round about them ; all of them uncircumcised , slain by the sword ; for they caused their terror in the land of the living . 27And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised , that are gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war , and have laid their swords under their heads , and their iniquities are upon their bones ; for they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living . 28But thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised , and shalt lie with them that are slain by the sword . 29There is Edom, her kings and all her princes , who in their might are laid with them that are slain by the sword : they shall lie with the uncircumcised , and with them that go down to the pit. 30There are the princes of the north , all of them , and all the Sidonians , who are gone down with the slain ; in the terror which they caused by their might they are put to shame ; and they lie uncircumcised with them that are slain by the sword , and bear their shame with them that go down to the pit. 31Pharaoh shall see them , and shall be comforted over all his multitude , even Pharaoh and all his army , slain by the sword , saith the Lord Jehovah . 32For I have put his terror in the land of the living ; and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised , with them that are slain by the sword , even Pharaoh and all his multitude , saith the Lord Jehovah .