Ezekiel 32:1-19 ▼

1 And it came to pass, in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first of the month, that the word of YHWH came to me, saying:

2 “Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him: ‘To a young lion of the nations you may be compared, and you are like the monster in the seas. You burst forth in your rivers and you stir up the waters with your feet, and you muddy their rivers.’

3 Thus says the Lord YHWH: ‘And I will spread over you My net with a throng of many peoples, and they will draw you up in My net.

4 And I will leave you on the land; upon the face of the field I will throw you, and I will make dwell upon you all the birds of the heavens, and I will give the fill of you to the beasts of all the earth.

5 And I will lay your flesh upon the mountains, and I will fill the valleys with your remains.

6 And I will water the land with the flow of your blood, up to the mountains, and the ravines will be full of you.

7 And in My quenching of you I will cover the heavens, and I will make dark their stars; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon will not radiate her light.

8 All luminaries of light in the heavens I will make dark because of you, and I will put darkness over your land,’ a declaration of the Lord YHWH.

9 ‘And I will trouble the hearts of many peoples, in My bringing your destruction among the nations, over lands that you have not known.

10 And many peoples I will cause to be appalled over you, and their kings will shudder over you with shuddering, in My making fly My sword in front of their faces; and they will tremble at every moment, each man for his soul, on the day of your fall!’

11 For thus says the Lord YHWH: ‘The sword of the king of Babylon will come against you.

12 By the swords of mighty ones your multitude I will cause to fall—the most ruthless of nations, all of them. And they will plunder the pride of Egypt, and all will be destroyed her multitude.

13 And I will destroy all her animals from beside her great waters; and no foot of man will stir them up anymore, and the hooves of animals will not stir them up.

14 Then their waters I will let settle, and their rivers I will make run like oil,’ a declaration of the Lord YHWH.

15 ‘In My making the land of Egypt a desolation, and the land being desolate of its fullness, in My striking all those dwelling in it, they will know that I am YHWH!’

16 It is a lamentation they will lament her; the daughters of the nations will lament her, over Egypt and over all her multitude, they will lament her, a declaration of the Lord YHWH.”

17 And it came to pass, in the twelfth year, on the fifteenth of the month, that the word of YHWH came to me, saying:

18 “Son of man, wail over the multitude of Egypt, and send it down—her and the daughters of the mighty nations—to the land below, with those going down to the Pit.

19 Whom are you pleasing? Go down, and lie down with the uncircumcised!