Ezekiel 32:1-16

Grief over Pharaoh and Egypt

¹In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ²“Son of man, take up a song of mourning over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him,

‘You compared yourself to a young lion of the nations,

Yet you are like the monster in the seas;

And you burst forth in your rivers

And muddied the waters with your feet

And fouled their rivers.’ ”

³This is what the Lord God says:

“Now I will spread My net over you

With a contingent of many peoples,

And they will lift you up in My net.

4“I will leave you on the land;

I will hurl you on the open field.

And I will cause all the birds of the sky to nest on you,

And I will satisfy the animals of the whole earth with you.

5“I will lay your flesh on the mountains

And fill the valleys with your refuse.

6“I will also make the land drink the discharge of your blood

As far as the mountains,

And the ravines will be full of you.

7“And when I extinguish you,

I will cover the heavens and darken their stars;

I will cover the sun with a cloud

And the moon will not give its light.

8“All the shining lights in the heavens

I will darken over you

And will set darkness on your land,”

Declares the Lord God.

⁹“I will also trouble the hearts of many peoples when I bring your destruction among the nations, into lands which you have not known. ¹⁰And I will make many peoples appalled at you, and their kings will be horribly afraid of you when I brandish My sword before them; and they will tremble again and again, every person for his own life, on the day of your fall.”

¹¹For the Lord God says this: “The sword of the king of Babylon will attack you. ¹²By the swords of the warriors I will make your multitude fall; all of them are tyrants of the nations,

And they will devastate the pride of Egypt,

And all its multitude will be destroyed.

13“I will also eliminate all its cattle from beside many waters;

And a human foot will not muddy them anymore,

And the hoofs of animals will not muddy them.

14“Then I will make their waters settle,

And make their rivers run like oil,”

Declares the Lord God.

15“When I make the land of Egypt a desolation,

And the land is destitute of that which filled it,

When I strike all those who live in it,

Then they shall know that I am the Lord.

¹⁶This is a song of mourning, and they shall sing it. The daughters of the nations shall sing it. Over Egypt and over all her hordes they shall sing it,” declares the Lord God.