THE BOOK OF EZEKIEL

Ezekiel Chapter 32

1 ¶ On the first day of the twelfth month of the twelfth year, 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 young lion among the nations, and you are like a crocodile in the water: and you thrash about in your rivers, and stir up the water with your feet, and make the stream muddy.

3 The Lord GOD says; I will therefore spread out my net over you with a company of many people; and they will bring you up in my net.

4 Then will I leave you upon the land, I will hurl you out on the open field, and will cause all the birds of heaven to settle on you, and I will let the beasts of the whole earth eat their fill of you.

5 And I will lay your flesh on the mountains, and fill the valleys with your rotting corpses.

6 I will also drench with your blood the land where you swim, even to the mountains; and the rivers will be full of you.

7 And when I put out your light, I will cover the heavens, and make its stars dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon will not give her light.

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

9 I will also trouble the hearts of many people, when I carry you captive among the nations, into countries that you have not known.

10 Yes, I will make many people amazed at you, and their kings will shudder and be horribly afraid because of you, when I will brandish my sword before them; they will tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of your downfall.

11 For the Lord GOD says; The sword of the king of Babylon will come upon you.

12 By the swords of the mighty will I cause your multitude to fall, all of them the most ruthless of the nations: and they will smash the pomp of Egypt, and destroy its horde of people.

13 I will also destroy all of its animals from the shores of many streams; nor will the feet of men or hoofs of animals stir them up any longer.

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

15 When I make the land of Egypt desolate, and the country is stripped of all that it was full of, when I smite all those who dwell in it, then they will know that I am the LORD.

16 This is the lamentation with which they will lament her: the daughters of the nations will lament her: they will lament for her, even for Egypt, and for all her people, says the Lord GOD.

17 ¶ In the twelfth year, on the fifteenth day of the month, it also happened that the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

18 Son of man, weep over Egypt’s masses, which I will bring down to the lower parts of the earth, she, and the daughters of mighty nations, to be with those who go down into the grave.

19 Whom do you surpass in beauty? go down, and be laid with the uncircumcised.

20 They will fall in the midst of those who are slain by the sword: she is delivered to the sword: drag her and all her multitudes away.

21 The mightiest among the warriors will speak to Pharaoh in the grave with those who helped him: they have gone down, they lie with the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.

22 Assyria is there with all her army: their graves are around him: all of them dead, cut down by the sword:

23 Whose graves are in the bottom of the pit, and her army is around her grave: all of them dead, cut down by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the living.

24 There is Elam with all her army around her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who have gone down uncircumcised into the lower parts of the earth, they brought terror to the land of the living; and now bear their shame with those who go down to the grave.

25 They have given her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her masses: her graves around her: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword: for they caused terror in the land of the living, and henceforth bear their shame with those who go down to the pit: they lie among the slain.

26 There is Meshech, Tubal, and all their hordes: their graves are around him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, for they caused terror in the land of the living.

27 And they will not lie with the mighty who have fallen of the uncircumcised, who went down to the grave with their weapons of war: and their swords were placed under their heads, and their sin will be on their bones, for they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.

28 Yes, you will be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and will lie with those who are slain with the sword.

29 Edom is there, her kings, and all her princes, who with all their might lie with those who were slain by the sword: they will lie with the uncircumcised, and with those who go down to the pit.

30 There are the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, who have gone down with the slain; ashamed for all the terror caused by their might; and they lie uncircumcised with those who are slain by the sword, and bear their shame with those who go down to the grave.

31 Pharaoh will see them, and will console himself over all his horde, even Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword, says the Lord GOD.

32 For I have put my terror in the land of the living: and he will lie among the uncircumcised with those who are slain with the sword, even Pharaoh and all his hordes, says the Lord GOD.