1A lamentation for the fearful fall of Egypt. 11The sword of Babylon shall destroy it. 17It shall be brought down to hell among all the uncircumcised nations.
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1And it came to pass in 1the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month, that2the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
2Son of man, 1take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou 2art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a awhale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, 3and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.
3Thus saith the Lord God; I will therefore 1spread out my net over thee with a company of many people; and they shall bring thee up in my net.
4Then 1will 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.
5And I will lay thy flesh 1upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height.
6I 1will also water with thy blood athe land wherein thou swimmest, even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of thee.
7And when I shall aput thee out, 1I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.
8All the abright lights of heaven will I make bdark over thee, and 1set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord God.
9I will also avex the hearts of many people, when I shall 1bring thy destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not known.
10Yea, 1I will make many people amazed at thee, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for thee, when I shall 2brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of thy fall.
11¶ For thus saith the Lord God; The 1sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee.
12By the 1swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall, the terrible of the nations, all of them: and 2they shall spoil the pomp of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed.
13I will destroy also all 1the beasts thereof from beside the great waters; neither shall the foot of man 2trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them.
14Then will I make their waters 1deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord God.
15When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and the country shall be adestitute of that whereof it was full, when I shall smite all them that dwell therein, 1then shall they know that I am the Lord.
161This 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 2her multitude, saith the Lord God.
17¶ It came to pass also in 1the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day of the month, that the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
18Son of man, 1wail for the multitude of Egypt, and 2cast them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the 3nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.
191Whom dost thou pass in beauty? 2go down, and be thou laid with the 3uncircumcised.
201They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the sword: ashe is delivered to the sword: draw her and all her multitudes.
211The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with them that help him: 2they are gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
221Asshur is there and all her company: his graves are about him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword:
231Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and 2her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, 3which caused aterror in the 4land of the living.
24There is1Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into 2the nether parts of the earth, which caused their terror in the land of the living; yet have they 3borne their shame with them that go down to the pit.
25They have set her a bed in the 1midst of the slain with all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them 2uncircumcised, slain by the sword: though their 3terror was caused 4in 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.
26There is1Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though they caused their terror in the land of the living.
27And they shall not lie with 1the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell awith their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.
28Yea, 1thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shalt lie with them that are slain with the sword.
29There is1Edom, her kings, and all her princes, which with their might are alaid by them that were slain by the sword: they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with them that go down to the pit.
30There be the princes of the 1north, all of them, and all the 2Zidonians, 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 bear their shame with them that go down to the pit.
31Pharaoh shall see them, and shall 1be comforted over all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword, saith the Lord God.
32For 1I 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, even2Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord God.