A lament for Pharaoh
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📚And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 📚“Son of man, take up a lament 📖
for Pharaoh king of Egypt,
and say to him, “You are like a
young lion among the nations 📖,
and you are like a monster 📖
in the seas. And you burst out of
your rivers,
and stirred up the waters
with your feet, and dirtied their rivers.
3 📚Thus says the Lord God:
Therefore I will spread my net
over you with a gathering
of many peoples,
and they will bring you up in my net.
4 📚Then I will leave you on the land;
I will hurl you out onto the open field,
and will cause all the birds of heaven
to remain on you,
and I will fill the beasts of the
whole earth with you.
5 📚And I will lay your flesh on the mountains,
and fill the valleys with your remains.
6 📚I will also drench with your blood
the land where you swim,
up to the mountains,
and the rivers will be full of you.
32:3-6 God did this but His instrument was the king of Babylon with his armies.⚜
7 📚And when I extinguish you,
I will cover the heavens,
and make its stars dark.
I will cover the sun with a cloud,
and the moon will not give its light.
8 📚I will make all the bright lights
of heaven dark over you,
and set darkness on your land,
says the Lord God.
9 📚I will also trouble the hearts of many people, when I bring about your destruction among the nations, in countries which you have not known.
10 📚Yes, I will make many peoples amazed at you, and their kings will be horribly afraid because of you, when I brandish my sword before them, and they will tremble at every moment, each man for his own life, in the day of your fall.
32:9-10 Whenever war is loosed on the world and a great kingdom falls the result is fear and upheaval among the nations. Especially at the end of this age conditions will become so terrible that every ruler of every country will have reason to tremble every moment for his life.⚜
11 📚“For thus says the Lord God:
The sword of the king of Babylon
will come on you.
12 📚I will cause your hordes to fall
by the swords of the mighty,
the most terrible of all the nations,
and they will plunder the pride 📖 of Egypt,
and all its hordes will be destroyed.
13 📚I will also destroy all its cattle
from beside the great waters.
The foot of man will not muddy
them any more,
nor will the hooves of cattle muddy them.
14 Then I will make their waters settle,
and cause their rivers to run like oil,
says the Lord God.
15 📚When I make the land of Egypt desolate,
and the country destitute
of what it had in abundance,
when I strike all who live in it,
then they will know that I am the LORD.
16 📚“This is the lament with which they will mourn for her. The daughters of the nations will lament for her; they will lament for her, for Egypt and for all her many people, says the Lord God”.
17 📚It came to pass also in the twelfth year, on the fifteenth day of the month, that the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 18 📚“Son of man, wail for the multitudes of Egypt, and send them down, her and the daughters of the famous nations, to the lower parts of the earth, with those who go down into the pit, saying,
19 📚Whom do you surpass in beauty?
Go down 📖, and be placed among
the uncircumcised 📖.
20 📚They will fall among those slain by the sword, she is handed over to the sword. Draw her and all her multitudes away. 21 📚From the midst of hell 📖 the strongest of the mighty will say of him and of those who helped him, ‘They have come down, they lie among the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.’
22 📚“Asshur is there and all her horde. Her graves are all around her, all of them slain, fallen by the sword. 23 📚Their graves are set in the depths of the pit, and her horde is around her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who had caused terror in the land of the living.
24 📚“There is Elam 📖 and all her hordes around her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword. Those who caused their terror in the land of the living have gone down uncircumcised into the lower parts of the earth. Now they bear their shame with those who go down to the pit. 25 📚They have placed a bed for her among the slain, with all her hordes, with her graves all around it, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword. Though they caused terror in the land of the living, yet they bear their shame with those who go down to the pit. They are put among those slain.
26 📚“There are Meshech, Tubal 📖, and all her hordes. Their graves are all around it, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though they caused their terror in the land of the living. 27 📚And they do not lie among the mighty who have fallen of the uncircumcised, who have gone down to hell with their weapons of war. They have laid their swords under their heads, but the punishment of their evil deeds is on their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.
28 📚“Yes, you will be broken among the uncircumcised, and will lie down among those slain with the sword.
29 📚“There is Edom 📖, her kings, and all her princes, who, despite their might, are placed beside those slain by the sword. They lie among the uncircumcised, and among those who go down to the pit.
30 📚“There are the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Sidonians 📖, who have gone down with the slain. They are put to shame despite the terror caused by their might; and they lie uncircumcised with those slain by the sword, and bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.
31 📚“Pharaoh will see them, and will be comforted over all his hordes, Pharaoh and all his army, slain by the sword, says the Lord God. 32 📚For I 📖 have caused my terror in the land of the living, and he will be placed among the uncircumcised with those slain with the sword, Pharaoh and all his hordes, says the Lord God”.