^18 (A)“Son of man, ^(B)wail over ^(C)the multitude of Egypt, and ^(D)send them down, her and the daughters of majestic nations, ^(E)to the world below, to those who have gone down to the pit:

²⁰ They shall fall amid those ^(H)who are slain by the sword. Egypt^[a] is delivered to the sword; drag her away, and ^(I)all her multitudes. ²¹ The mighty chiefs ^(J)shall speak of them, ^(K)with their helpers, out of the midst of Sheol: ‘They have come down, they lie still, ^(L)the uncircumcised, ^(M)slain by the sword.’

^22 (N)“Assyria is there, and all her company, ^(O)its graves all around it, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, ²³ whose graves are set in ^(P)the uttermost parts of the pit; and her company is all around her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, ^(Q)who spread terror ^(R)in the land of the living.

^24 (S)“Elam is ^(T)there, and all her multitude around her grave; all of them ^(U)slain, fallen by the sword, who went down uncircumcised into ^(V)the world below, who spread their terror in the land of the living; and ^(W)they bear their shame ^(X)with those who go down to the pit. ^25 (Y)They have made her a bed among the slain with all her multitude, ^(Z)her graves all around it, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for terror of them was spread in the land of the living, and they bear their shame with those who go down to the pit; they are placed among the slain.

^26 (AA)“Meshech-Tubal is ^(AB)there, and all her multitude, ^(AC)her graves all around it, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for they spread their terror in the land of the living. ²⁷ And ^(AD)they do not lie with the mighty, the fallen from among the uncircumcised, who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war, whose swords were laid under their heads, and whose iniquities are upon their bones; for the terror of the mighty men was in the land of the living. ²⁸ But as for you, you shall be broken ^(AE)and lie among the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword.

^29 (AF)“Edom is ^(AG)there, her kings and all her princes, who for all their might are laid with those who are killed by the sword; they lie with the uncircumcised, with those who go down to the pit.

³⁰ “The princes ^(AH)of the north are there, all of them, and all the ^(AI)Sidonians, who have gone down in shame with the slain, ^(AJ)for all the terror that they caused by their might; they lie uncircumcised with those who are slain by the sword, and ^(AK)bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.

³¹ “When Pharaoh sees them, he ^(AL)will be comforted for ^(AM)all his multitude, Pharaoh and all his army, slain by the sword, declares the Lord God. ^32 (AN)For I spread terror ^(AO)in the land of the living; and he shall be laid to rest among ^(AP)the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword, Pharaoh and all his multitude, declares the Lord God.”

¹⁶ What have you to do here, and whom have you here, ^(A)that you have cut out here a tomb for yourself, you ^(B)who cut out a tomb on the height and carve a dwelling for yourself in the rock?

²⁵ When they had departed from him, leaving him ^(A)severely wounded, ^(B)his servants conspired against him because of the blood of ^(C)the son^[a] of Jehoiada the priest, and killed him on his bed. So he died, and they buried him in the city of David, ^(D)but they did not bury him in the tombs of the kings.

¹⁶ And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, and toward God and his house.

⁵ they are afraid also of what is high, and ^(A)terrors are in the way; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along,^[a] and desire fails, because man is going to his ^(B)eternal ^(C)home, and the ^(D)mourners go about the streets—

³ If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, so that ^(A)the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with life's ^(B)good things, and he also has no ^(C)burial, I say that ^(D)a stillborn child is better off than he.