Ezekiel 32:1-16

New King James Version

Lamentation for Pharaoh and Egypt

32 And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the ^(A)twelfth month, on the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ²“Son of man, ^(B)take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him:

^(C)‘You are like a young lion among the nations,
And ^(D)you are like a monster in the seas,
^(E)Bursting forth in your rivers,
Troubling the waters with your feet,
And ^(F)fouling their rivers.

³‘Thus says the Lord God:

“I will therefore ^(G)spread My net over you with a company of many people,
And they will draw you up in My net.
⁴Then ^(H)I will leave you on the land;
I will cast you out on the open fields,
^(I)And cause to ^[a]settle on you all the birds of the heavens.
And with you I will fill the beasts of the whole earth.
⁵I will lay your flesh ^(J)on the mountains,
And fill the valleys with your carcass.

⁶“I will also water the land with the flow of your blood,
Even to the mountains;
And the riverbeds will be full of you.
⁷When I put out your light,
^(K)I will cover the heavens, and make its stars dark;
I will cover the sun with a cloud,
And the moon shall not give her light.
⁸All the ^[b]bright lights of the heavens I will make dark over you,
And bring darkness upon your land,”
Says the Lord God.

⁹‘I will also trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries which you have not known. ¹⁰Yes, I will make many peoples astonished at you, and their kings shall be horribly afraid of you when I brandish My sword before them; and ^(L)they shall tremble every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of your fall.

¹¹^(M)‘For thus says the Lord God: “The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon you. ¹²By the swords of the mighty warriors, all of them ^(N)the most terrible of the nations, I will cause your multitude to fall.

^(O)“They shall plunder the pomp of Egypt,
And all its multitude shall be destroyed.
¹³Also I will destroy all its animals
From beside its great waters;
^(P)The foot of man shall muddy them no more,
Nor shall the hooves of animals muddy them.
¹⁴Then I will make their waters ^[c]clear,
And make their rivers run like oil,”
Says the Lord God.

¹⁵“When I make the land of Egypt desolate,
And the country is destitute of all that once filled it,
When I strike all who dwell in it,
^(Q)Then they shall know that I am the Lord.

¹⁶“This is the ^(R)lamentation
With which they shall lament her;
The daughters of the nations shall lament her;
They shall lament for her, for Egypt,
And for all her multitude,”
Says the Lord God.’ ”