1 In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first of the month, the word of the LORD came to me:
2 "Son of man, raise a lament over Pharaoh king of Egypt and tell him: 'You thought of yourself as a young lion among the nations, but you are like a monster in the seas; you thrash about in your rivers, churn the water with your feet and muddy their streams.
3 Thus says the Lord GOD: I will spread my net over you with a throng of many peoples, and they will haul you up in my dragnet.
4 I will throw you onto the land and hurl you onto the open field; I will let all the birds of the sky settle on you and give the animals of the whole earth their fill of you.
5 I will lay your flesh on the mountains and fill the valleys with your rotting remains.
6 I will water the land with what flows from you, your blood, up to the mountains, and the ravines will be full of you.
7 When I snuff you out, I will cover the sky and darken its stars; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon will not give its light.
8 All the shining lights in the sky I will darken over you, and I will bring darkness over your land, declares the Lord GOD.
9 "'I will disturb the hearts of many peoples when I bring your ruin among the nations, to lands you have never known.
10 I will leave many peoples aghast at you, and their kings will bristle with horror over you when I swing my sword before their faces; on the day of your fall they will tremble every moment, each man for his own life.
11 "'For thus says the Lord GOD: The sword of the king of Babylon will come against you.
12 I will make your hordes fall by the swords of warriors, all of them the most brutal of the nations; they will shatter the pride of Egypt, and all her hordes will be wiped out.
13 I will destroy all her cattle from beside the abundant waters; no human foot will churn them anymore, and no hoof of cattle will churn them.
14 Then I will let their waters settle and make their streams flow like oil, declares the Lord GOD.
15 When I turn the land of Egypt into a desolation, a land stripped of everything in it, when I strike down all who live there, then they shall know that I am the LORD.
16 This is a lament, and they will chant it; the daughters of the nations will chant it; over Egypt and all her hordes they will chant it, declares the Lord GOD.'"
17 In the twelfth year, on the fifteenth of the month, the word of the LORD came to me:
18 "Son of man, wail over the hordes of Egypt and send them down, her and the daughters of mighty nations, to the world below, with those who go down to the pit:
19 'Are you lovelier than anyone else? Go down and lie with the uncircumcised!'
20 They will fall among those slain by the sword. The sword has been handed over; drag her off with all her hordes.
21 From inside Sheol the mightiest warriors will speak of him and his helpers: 'They have come down, they lie there, the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.'
22 "Assyria is there with all her throng, his graves surrounding him, all of them slain, fallen by the sword,
23 whose graves are set in the farthest depths of the pit. Her throng is around her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, the ones who spread terror in the land of the living.
24 "Elam is there with all her hordes around her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who went down uncircumcised to the world below, who spread their terror in the land of the living; and they bear their disgrace with those who go down to the pit.
25 Among the slain they have made a bed for her with all her hordes, his graves surrounding him, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for terror of them was spread in the land of the living, and they bear their disgrace with those who go down to the pit. He has been placed among the slain.
26 "Meshech and Tubal are there with all her hordes, his graves surrounding him, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, for they spread their terror in the land of the living.
27 They do not lie with the fallen warriors of the uncircumcised, who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war, with their swords placed under their heads; their iniquities rest on their bones, because the terror of those warriors was in the land of the living.
28 And you too will be shattered among the uncircumcised and lie with those slain by the sword.
29 "Edom is there, her kings and all her chiefs, who despite their might have been laid with those slain by the sword; they lie with the uncircumcised and with those who go down to the pit.
30 "All the princes of the north are there, and all the Sidonians, who went down with the slain in shame, for all the terror their might inspired; they lie uncircumcised with those slain by the sword and bear their disgrace with those who go down to the pit.
31 "Pharaoh will see them and be consoled over all his hordes, Pharaoh and all his army, slain by the sword, declares the Lord GOD.
32 For I have put my terror in the land of the living, and he will be laid among the uncircumcised with those slain by the sword, Pharaoh and all his hordes, declares the Lord GOD."