“1 And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in
the first [day] of the month, [that] the word of the LORD came unto me,
saying, 2 Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt,
and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou
[art] as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and
troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers. 3 Thus
saith the Lord GOD; I will therefore spread out my net over thee with a
company of many people; and they shall bring thee up in my net. 4 Then
will I leave thee upon the land, I will cast thee forth upon the open
field, and will cause all the fowls of the heaven to remain upon thee,
and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with thee. 5 And I will
lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height.
6 I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest,
[even] to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of thee. 7 And
when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars
thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not
give her light. 8 All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over
thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD. 9 I will also
vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy destruction among
the nations, into the countries which thou hast not known. 10 Yea, I
will make many people 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. 11 For thus saith the Lord GOD; The sword of the king of
Babylon shall come upon thee. 12 By the swords of the mighty will I
cause thy multitude to fall, the terrible of the nations, all of them:
and they shall spoil the pomp of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof
shall be destroyed. 13 I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from
beside the great waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them any
more, nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them. 14 Then will I make their
waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord GOD.
15 When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and the country shall
be destitute of that whereof it was full, when I shall smite all them
that dwell therein, then shall they know that I [am] the LORD. 16 This
[is] the lamentation wherewith they shall lament her: the daughters of
the nations shall lament her: they shall lament for her, [even] for
Egypt, and for all her multitude, saith the Lord GOD.”
“17 It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth [day]
of the month, [that] the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 18 Son
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. 19 Whom dost thou pass in
beauty? go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised. 20 They shall
fall in the midst of [them that are] slain by the sword: she is
delivered to the sword: draw her and all her multitudes. 21 The strong
among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with them
that help him: they are gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the
sword. 22 Asshur [is] there and all her company: his graves [are] about
him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword: 23 Whose graves are set in
the sides of the pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of
them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the
living. 24 There [is] Elam and all her multitude round about her grave,
all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down
uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which caused their
terror in the land of the living; yet have they borne their shame with
them that go down to the pit. 25 They have set her a bed in the midst of
the slain with all her multitude: her graves [are] round about him: all
of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword: though their terror was
caused in the land of the living, yet have they borne their shame with
them that go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of [them that be]
slain. 26 There [is] Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude: her graves
[are] round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword,
though they caused their terror in the land of the living. 27 And they
shall not lie with the mighty [that are] fallen of the uncircumcised,
which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and they have
laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon
their bones, though [they were] the terror of the mighty in the land of
the living. 28 Yea, thou shalt be broken in the midst of the
uncircumcised, and shalt lie with [them that are] slain with the sword.
29 There [is] Edom, her kings, and all her princes, which with their
might are laid by [them that were] slain by the sword: they shall lie
with the uncircumcised, and with them that go down to the pit. 30 There
[be] the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, which
are gone down with the slain; with their terror they are ashamed of
their might; and they lie uncircumcised with [them that be] slain by the
sword, and bear their shame with them that go down to the pit. 31
Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his multitude,
[even] Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword, saith the Lord GOD.
32 For I have caused my terror in the land of the living: and he shall
be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with [them that are] slain
with the sword, [even] Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord
GOD.” (Ezekiel 32:1-32 AV)
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