Ezekiel 32

Revised Geneva Translation

32 And in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first day of the month, the Word of the LORD came to me, saying:

² “Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and say to him, ‘You are like a lion of the nations, and are as a dragon in the sea. You cast out your rivers and troubled the waters with your feet and stamped in their rivers.’”

³ Thus says the Lord GOD: “I will therefore spread My net over you with a great multitude of people. And they shall make you come up into My net.

⁴ “Then I will leave you upon the land. I will cast you upon the open field; and I will cause all the birds of the sky to remain upon you; and I will fill all the beasts of the field with you.

⁵ “And I will lay your flesh upon the mountains and fill the valleys with your corpses.

⁶ “I will also water the land with the discharge of your blood, up to the mountains. And the rivers shall be full of you.

⁷ “And when I shall put you out, I will cover the sky and make its stars dark. I will cover the Sun with a cloud; and the Moon shall not give her light.

⁸ “I will make all the lights of heaven dark over you, and bring darkness upon your land,” says the Lord GOD.

⁹ “I will also trouble the hearts of many people when I shall bring your destruction among the nations, and upon the countries which you have not known.

¹⁰ “Yea, I will make many people amazed at you; and their kings shall be astonished with fear of you when I shall make My sword glitter against their faces. And they shall be afraid at every moment, every man for his own life, on the day of your fall.”

¹¹ For thus says the Lord GOD: “The sword of the king of Babel shall come upon you.

¹² “By the swords of the mighty I will cause your multitude to fall. They all shall be ruthless nations; and they shall destroy the pride of Egypt; and all its multitude shall be consumed.

¹³ “I will also destroy all its beasts from the great watersides. The foot of man shall not trouble them anymore; nor shall the hooves of beasts trouble them.

¹⁴ “Then will I make their waters deep and cause their rivers to run like oil,” says the Lord GOD.

¹⁵ “When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate — and the country, with all that is in it, shall be laid waste — when I shall strike all those who dwell in it, then shall they know that I am the LORD.

¹⁶ “This is the mourning with which they shall lament her: The daughters of the nations shall lament her. They shall lament for Egypt, and for all her multitude,” says the Lord GOD.

¹⁷ Also, in the twelfth year, on the fifteenth day of the month, came the Word of the LORD to me, saying:

¹⁸ “Son of man, lament for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down into the pit, with those who go down under the nether parts of the Earth, them and the daughters of the mighty nations.

¹⁹ “Whom do you surpass in beauty? Go down and sleep with the uncircumcised.

²⁰ “They shall fall in the midst of those who are killed by the sword. She is delivered to the sword. Draw her down, and all her multitude.

²¹ “The most mighty and strong shall speak to him out of the midst of Hell, with those who help her. They have gone down, and sleep with the uncircumcised who have been killed by the sword.

²² “Assyria is there and all his company. Their graves are around him. All of them killed and fallen by the sword,

²³ “whose graves are made in the side of the pit. And his multitude are all around his grave. All of them killed, and fallen by the sword, who caused fear in the land of the living.

²⁴ “Elam is there, and all his multitude, all around his grave. All of them killed, and fallen by the sword, who have gone down with the uncircumcised into the nether parts of the Earth, who caused themselves to be feared in the land of the living. Yet they have borne their shame with those who have gone down to the pit.

²⁵ “They have made his bed in the midst of the slain with all his multitude. Their graves are all around him. All these uncircumcised are killed by the sword. Though they have caused their fear in the land of the living, they have still borne their shame with those who go down to the pit. They are laid in the midst of those who are killed.

²⁶ “Meshech, Tubal, and all their multitude are there. Their graves are all around them. All these uncircumcised were killed by the sword, though they caused their fear in the land of the living.

²⁷ “And those who have fallen shall not lie with the valiant of the uncircumcised, who have gone down to the grave with their weapons of war and have laid their swords under their heads. But their iniquity shall be upon their bones because they were the fear of the mighty in the land of the living.

²⁸ “Yea, you shall be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised and lie with those killed by the sword.

²⁹ “Edom, his kings, and all his princes are there, who, with their strength, are laid by those who were killed by the sword. They shall sleep with the uncircumcised, and with those who go down to the pit.

³⁰ “All the princes of the North are there, with all the Sidonians, who have gone down with the slain, with their fear. They are ashamed of their strength. And the uncircumcised sleep with those killed by the sword, and bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.

³¹ “Pharaoh shall see them; and he shall be comforted over all his multitude. Pharaoh and all his army shall be killed by the sword,” says the Lord GOD.

³² “For I have caused My fear in the land of the living. And he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those killed by the sword, Pharaoh and all his multitude,” says the Lord GOD.