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¹ And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first [day] of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,² Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him, You were likened to a young lion of the nations: yet are you as a crocodile in the seas; and you broke forth with your rivers, and troubled the waters with your feet, and fouled their rivers.³ Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will spread out my net on you with a company of many peoples; and they shall bring you up in my net.⁴ And I will leave you on the land, I will cast you forth on the open field, and will cause all the birds of the heavens to settle on you, and I will satisfy the beasts of the whole earth with you.⁵ And I will lay your flesh on the mountains, and fill the valleys with your height.⁶ I will also water with your blood the land wherein you swim, even to the mountains; and the watercourses shall be full of you.⁷ And when I shall extinguish you, I will cover the heavens, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light.⁸ All the bright lights of heaven I will make dark over you, and set darkness on your land, says the Lord Yahweh.⁹ I will also vex the hearts of many peoples, when I shall bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries which you have not known.¹⁰ Yes, I will make many peoples amazed at you, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for you, when I shall brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of your fall.¹¹ For thus says the Lord Yahweh: The sword of the king of Babylon shall come on you.¹² By the swords of the mighty I will cause your multitude to fall; the terrible of the nations are they all: and they shall bring to nothing the pride of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed.¹³ I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside many waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them anymore, nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them.¹⁴ Then I will make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to run like oil, says the Lord Yahweh.¹⁵ When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate and waste, a land destitute of that whereof it was full, when I shall smite all those that dwell therein, then they shall know that I am Yahweh.¹⁶ This is the lamentation with which they shall lament; the daughters of the nations shall lament therewith; over Egypt, and over all her multitude, they shall lament therewith, says the Lord Yahweh.

¹⁷ It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth [day] of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,¹⁸ Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, to the nether parts of the earth, with those that go down into the pit.¹⁹ Whom do you pass in beauty? go down, and be laid with the uncircumcised.²⁰ They shall fall in the midst of those that are slain by the sword: she is delivered to the sword; draw her away and all her multitudes.²¹ The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of Sheol with those that help him: they have gone down, they lie still, even the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.²² Asshur is there and all her company; their graves are round about them; all of them slain, fallen by the sword;²³ whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit, and her company is round about her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who caused terror in the land of the living.²⁴ There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who have gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, who caused their terror in the land of the living, and have borne their shame with those that go down to the pit.²⁵ They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude; her graves are round about them; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for their terror was caused in the land of the living, and they have borne their shame with those that go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of those that are slain.²⁶ There is Meshech-Tubal and all her multitude; her graves are round about them; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for they caused their terror in the land of the living.²⁷ And they shall not lie with the mighty that have fallen of old, that have gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war, and have laid their swords under their heads, and their iniquities are on their bones; for [they were] the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.²⁸ But you shall be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shall lie with those that are slain by the sword.²⁹ There is Edom, her kings and all her princes, who in their might are laid with those that are slain by the sword: they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with those that go down to the pit.³⁰ There are the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Sidonians, who have gone down with the slain; in the terror which they caused by their might they are put to shame; and they lie uncircumcised with those that are slain by the sword, and bear their shame with those that go down to the pit.³¹ Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army, slain by the sword, says the Lord Yahweh.³² For I put his terror in the land of the living; but he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those that are slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the Lord Yahweh.