¶ And it came to pass in the twelfth¹ year, in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

Son of man, take up² a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like³ a young lion of the nations, and thou art as⁴ a whale⁵ in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.

⁶Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will therefore spread out my net over thee with a company of many people; and they shall bring thee up in my net.

⁷Then will I leave thee upon the land, I will cast thee forth upon the open field, and will cause all the fowls of the heaven to remain upon thee, and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with thee.

And I⁸ will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height⁹.

I will also water¹⁰ with thy blood the land¹¹ wherein thou swimmest¹³, even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of thee.

And when I shall put thee out¹⁴, I will cover the heaven¹⁵, and make¹⁶ the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun¹⁷ with a cloud, and the moon¹⁸ shall not give her light.

All the bright lights of heaven¹⁹ will I make dark²⁰ over thee, and set darkness upon²¹ thy land, saith the Lord GOD.

I will also vex²² the hearts of many people, when²³ I shall bring thy destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not known.

¶ Yea, I will make many people amazed²⁴ at thee, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for thee, when I shall brandish my sword²⁵ before them; and they²⁶ shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of thy fall.

For thus saith the Lord GOD; The sword²⁷ of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee.

By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall, the terrible²⁸ of the nations, all of them: and they shall²⁹ spoil the pomp of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed.

I will destroy³⁰ also all the beasts thereof from beside the great waters; neither³¹ shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them.

Then will I make their waters deep, and cause³² their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord GOD.

When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and the country shall be destitute of that whereof³³ it was full, when I shall smite all them that dwell therein, then³⁴ shall they know that I am the LORD.

³⁵This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament her: the daughters of the nations shall lament her: they shall lament for her, even for Egypt, and for all her multitude, saith the Lord GOD.

¶ It came to pass also in the twelfth³⁶ year, in the fifteenth³⁷ day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

Son of man, wail³⁸ for the multitude of Egypt, and cast³⁹ them down, even her, and the daughters⁴⁰ of the famous nations, unto the⁴¹ nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.

Whom dost⁴² thou pass in beauty? go⁴³ down, and be thou laid with⁴⁴ the uncircumcised.

¶ They shall fall⁴⁵ in the midst of them that are slain by the sword: she is delivered to the sword⁴⁶: draw her and all her multitudes.

The strong⁴⁷ among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with them that help him: they are gone⁴⁸ down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword.

⁴⁹Asshur is there and all her company: his graves are about him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword:

Whose graves⁵¹ are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which⁵² caused terror⁵³ in the land of the living.

There is Elam⁵⁴ and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are⁵⁵ gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which caused⁵⁶ their terror in the land of the living; yet have they borne⁵⁷ their shame with them that go down to the pit.

They have set her⁵⁸ a bed⁵⁹ in the midst of the slain with all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them⁶⁰ uncircumcised, slain by the sword: though⁶¹ their terror was caused in the land of the living, yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of them that be slain.

There is Meshech⁶², Tubal⁶³, and all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of⁶⁴ them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though they caused⁶⁵ their terror in the land of the living.

And they shall not⁶⁶ lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell⁶⁷ with their weapons of war⁶⁸: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but⁶⁹ their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.

⁷⁰Yea, thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shalt lie with them that are slain with the sword.

There is Edom⁷¹, her kings, and all her princes, which with their might are laid⁷² by them that were slain by the sword: they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with them that go down to the pit.

¶ There be the princes⁷³ of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, which are gone down with the slain; with their terror they are ashamed of their might; and they lie uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword, and bear⁷⁴ their shame with them that go down to the pit.

Pharaoh shall⁷⁵ see them, and shall be⁷⁶ comforted over all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword, saith the Lord GOD.

⁷⁷For I have caused my terror in the land of the living: and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that are slain with the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.