Ezekiel 32
32
Egypt the crocodile
1In the twelfth year, on the first day of the twelfth month, the LORD’s word came to me: 2Human one, sing a lament for Pharaoh, Egypt’s king. Say to him:
You consider yourself a young lion among the nations,
but you are like the sea monster!
You thrash about in your rivers,
you roil the waters with your feet,
and you muddy your#32.2 LXX; MT their rivers.
3The LORD God proclaims:
In the company of many peoples
I will spread my net over you,
and I will haul you up in my dragnet.
4I will cast you out on the earth
and throw you on the open ground.
I will cause all the birds in the sky to settle on you,
and all the beasts of the earth to devour you.
5Your flesh I will set upon the mountains,
and I will fill the valleys with your gore.
6With your blood I will soak your irrigated land,#32.6 MT adds to the mountains.
and the streambeds will be filled with you.
7When you are snuffed out, I will cover the sky,
and I will darken the stars.
I will cover the sun with a cloud,
and the moon won’t radiate its light.
8As for the shining lights of the heavens,
I will make them dark over you,
and set darkness over your land.
This is what the LORD God says.
9I will trouble the hearts of many peoples
when I bring about your destruction
with nations from lands you didn’t know.
10I will make many peoples appalled because of you.
Their kings will shudder violently on your account
when I brandish my sword before them.
They will tremble for their lives again and again
on the day of your downfall.
11The LORD God proclaims: The sword of the king of Babylon is coming against you! 12I will make your hordes fall by the swords of mighty men, the most terrifying of the nations, all of them. They will bring an end to Egypt’s pride, and all of its hordes will be destroyed. 13I will remove all its livestock from beside the plentiful waters so that neither human foot nor livestock’s hoof will trouble it again. 14At that time, I will allow the waters to run clear, and make its rivers flow like oil. This is what the LORD God says. 15When I turn the land of Egypt into a wasteland and the land is deprived of all that fills it, and when I strike down those who live there, then they will know that I am the LORD. 16This is a lament, and it will be sung as a lament. The daughters of the nations will lament for Egypt, and they will also lament for Egypt’s hordes. This is what the LORD God says.
17In the twelfth year, on the fifteenth day of the first month,#32.17 LXX; MT lacks the first month. the LORD’s word came to me: 18Human one, mourn for Egypt’s hordes.
Send Egypt down
with the mighty nations subject#32.18 Or daughter nations to it,
to the world below,#32.18 Or the land of the lowest places
among those who go down to the pit.
19Whom do you surpass in beauty?
Go down and take your bed with the uncircumcised,
20among those who fall slain by the sword.
A sword is appointed, and all his hordes will carry him off. 21The mighty chieftains, those who once came to his aid, will speak to him from the middle of the underworld,#32.21 Heb Sheol for the uncircumcised have gone down and have lain down, slain by the sword.
Vanished glory
22Assyria is there, and all its assembly round about his grave,
all of them slain, fallen by the sword,
23who were assigned graves in the deepest region of the pit.
His assembly surrounded his grave,
all of them slain, fallen by the sword,
who caused terror in the land of the living.
24Elam is there, her entire horde round about her grave,
all of them slain, fallen by the sword,
who went down uncircumcised to the world below,#32.24 Or the land of the lowest places
who caused terror in the land of the living.
They bore their shame like those who go down to the pit.
25Among the slain they made a bed for her,
with all her hordes round about her grave,
all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword,
for they caused terror in the land of the living.
They bore their shame like those who go down to the pit;
in the midst of the slain she#32.25 Or he was placed.
26Meshech and Tubal are there, and all their hordes around their graves,
all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword,
for they caused terror in the land of the living.
27They don’t lie with the mighty men fallen among the uncircumcised. When they went down to the underworld#32.27 Heb Sheol with their weapons of war, they put their swords under their heads and their shields#32.27 Or sin over their bones. The terror of the mighty men is in the land of the living.
28But you, you will be broken among the uncircumcised, and you will lie with those who are slain by the sword.
29Edom is there, its kings and all its princes,
who, though strong, were put with those slain by the sword.
They lie with the uncircumcised,
like those who go down to the pit.
30All the princes of the north are there,
and all the Sidonians who went down with the slain;
in spite of the terror of their strength, they were disgraced.
They lie uncircumcised with those slain by the sword.
They bore their shame like those who go down to the pit.
31When Pharaoh sees them,
he will be sorry for all his hordes who are slain by the sword—
Pharaoh and all his army.
This is what the LORD God says,
32Though it was I who put his terror in the land of the living,
he will be laid out among the uncircumcised,
with those slain by the sword, Pharaoh and all his horde.
This is what the LORD God says.
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