Yehezkiel 32

1Then it happened in the twelfth month of the twelfth year, on the first of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, 2“Son of man, lift up a lament concerning Pharaoh the king of Egypt; say to him, 'You are like a young lion among the nations, 3The Lord Yahweh says this: 4I will abandon you in the land. I will throw you into a field 5For I will put your flesh on the mountains, and I will fill the valleys with your worm-filled corpse. 6Then I will pour your blood over the mountains, 7Then when I extinguish you, I will cover the heavens and darken their stars; 8All the shining lights in the heavens I will darken over you, 9So I will terrify the heart of many peoples in lands that you do not know, when I bring about your collapse among the nations, among lands that you have not known. Instead of when I bring about your collapse among the nations , some ancient and modern versions have when I take you into captivity among the nations . 10I will shock many peoples concerning you; their kings will shudder in horror concerning you when I swing my sword before them. Every moment each one will tremble because of you, on the day of your downfall. 11For the Lord Yahweh says this: The sword of the king of Babylon will come against you. 12I will cause your multitudes to fall by warriors' swords—each warrior a terror of nations. 13For I will destroy all the livestock from beside the plentiful waters; 14Then I will calm their waters and make their rivers run like oil— 15When I make the land of Egypt an abandoned place, when the land is made bare of all its fullness, 16There will be a lament; the daughters of the nations will lament over her; they will lament over Egypt, 17Then it happened in the twelfth year, on the fifteenth day of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, 18“Son of man, weep for the multitudes of Egypt and bring them down— 19'Are you really more beautiful than anyone else? Go down and lie down with the uncircumcised.' 20They will fall among those who were killed by the sword. The sword has been drawn! She has been given to the sword; they will seize her and her multitudes. 21The strongest of the warriors in Sheol will declare about Egypt and her allies, 22Assyria is there with all her assembly. Her graves surround her; 23Those whose graves are set in the recesses of the pit are there, with all her assembly. 24Elam is there with all her multitudes. Her graves surround her; all of them were killed. 25They set a bedroll for Elam and all her multitudes in the midst of the slain; her graves surround her. 26Meshech, Tubal, and all their multitudes are there! Their graves surround them. 27They do not lie with the fallen warriors of the uncircumcised who have gone down to Sheol 28So you, Egypt, will be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised! You will lie alongside those who were pierced by the sword. 29Edom is there with her kings and all her leaders. They have been placed in their strength with those killed by the sword. With the uncircumcised they lie, with those who have gone down to the pit. 30The princes of the north are there—all of them and all the Sidonians who went down with the ones who had been pierced. They were powerful and made others to be afraid, but now they are there in shame, uncircumcised with those who were pierced by the sword. They carry their own shame, together with the ones going down to the pit. 31Pharaoh will look and be comforted about all his multitudes who were pierced by the sword—Pharaoh and all his army—this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration.