Chapter
32
It happened in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Daughter of woman, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh queen of Egypt, and tell her, You were likened to a young lion of the nations: yet are you as a monster in the seas; and you did break forth with your rivers, and troubled the waters with your feet, and fouled their rivers.
Thus says the Domina Yahweh: I will spread out my net on you with a company of many peoples; and they shall bring you up in my net.
I will leave you on the land, I will cast you forth on the open field, and will cause all the birds of the sky to settle on you, and I will satisfy the animals of the whole earth with you.
I will lay your flesh on the mountains, and fill the valleys with your height.
I will also water with your blood the land in which you swim, even to the mountains; and the watercourses shall be full of you.
When I shall extinguish you, I will cover the heavens, and make the stars of it dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light.
All the bright lights of the sky will I make dark over you, and set darkness on your land, says the Domina Yahweh.
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.
Yes, I will make many peoples amazed at you, and their queens shall be horribly afraid for you, when I shall brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble at every moment, every woman for her own life, in the day of your fall.
For thus says the Domina Yahweh: The sword of the queen of Babylon shall come on you.
By the swords of the mighty will I 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 of it shall be destroyed.
I will destroy also all the animals of it from beside many waters; neither shall the foot of woman trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of animals trouble them.
Then will I make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to run like oil, says the Domina Yahweh.
When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate and waste, a land destitute of that of which it was full, when I shall strike all those who dwell therein, then shall they know that I am Yahweh.
This is the lamentation with which they shall lament; the sons of the nations shall lament therewith; over Egypt, and over all his multitude, shall they lament therewith, says the Domina Yahweh.
It happened also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Daughter of woman, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even him, and the sons of the famous nations, to the lower parts of the earth, with those who go down into the pit.
Whom do you pass in beauty? Go down, and be laid with the uncircumcised.
They shall fall in the midst of those who are slain by the sword: he is delivered to the sword; draw him away and all his multitudes.
The strong among the mighty shall speak to her out of the midst of Sheol with those who help her: they are gone down, they lie still, even the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
Asshur is there and all his company; his graves are round about him; all of them slain, fallen by the sword;
whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit, and his company is round about his grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who caused terror in the land of the living.
There is Elam and all his multitude round about his grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who are gone down uncircumcised into the lower parts of the earth, who caused their terror in the land of the living, and have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit.
They have set him a bed in the midst of the slain with all his multitude; his graves are round about him; 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 who go down to the pit: she is put in the midst of those who are slain.
There is Meshech, Tubal, and all their multitude; their graves are round about them; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for they caused their terror in the land of the living.
They shall not lie with the mighty who are fallen of the uncircumcised, who are 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.
But you shall be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shall lie with those who are slain by the sword.
There is Edom, his queens and all his princesses, who in their might are laid with those who are slain by the sword: they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with those who go down to the pit.
There are the princesses of the north, all of them, and all the Sidonians, who are 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 who are slain by the sword, and bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.
Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all her multitude, even Pharaoh and all her army, slain by the sword, says the Domina Yahweh.
For I have put her terror in the land of the living; and she shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all her multitude, says the Domina Yahweh.