1 And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came to me, saying, Compare verse2 commentaries
2 Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him, You are like a young lion of the nations, and you are as a whale in the seas: and you came forth with your rivers, and troubled the waters with your feet, and fouled their rivers. Compare verse2 commentaries
3 Thus said the Lord GOD; I will therefore spread out my net over you with a company of many people; and they shall bring you up in my net. Compare verse2 commentaries
4 Then will I leave you on the land, I will cast you forth on the open field, and will cause all the fowls of the heaven to remain on you, and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with you. Compare verse2 commentaries
5 And I will lay your flesh on the mountains, and fill the valleys with your height. Compare verse2 commentaries
6 I will also water with your blood the land wherein you swim, even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of you. Compare verse2 commentaries
7 And when I shall put you out, I 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. Compare verse2 commentaries
8 All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over you, and set darkness on your land, said the Lord GOD. Compare verse2 commentaries
9 I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries which you have not known. Compare verse2 commentaries
10 Yes, I will make many people amazed at you, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for you, when I shall brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of your fall. Compare verse2 commentaries
11 For thus said the Lord GOD; The sword of the king of Babylon shall come on you. Compare verse2 commentaries
12 By the swords of the mighty will I cause your multitude to fall, the terrible of the nations, all of them: and they shall spoil the pomp of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed. Compare verse2 commentaries
13 I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside the great waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them. Compare verse2 commentaries
14 Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, said the Lord GOD. Compare verse2 commentaries
15 When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and the country shall be destitute of that whereof it was full, when I shall smite all them that dwell therein, then shall they know that I am the LORD. Compare verse2 commentaries
16 This is the lamentation with which they shall lament her: the daughters of the nations shall lament her: they shall lament for her, even for Egypt, and for all her multitude, said the Lord GOD. Compare verse2 commentaries
17 It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day of the month, that the word of the LORD came to me, saying, Compare verse2 commentaries
18 Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, to the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit. Compare verse2 commentaries
20 They shall fall in the middle of them that are slain by the sword: she is delivered to the sword: draw her and all her multitudes. Compare verse2 commentaries
21 The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the middle of hell with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword. Compare verse2 commentaries
22 Asshur is there and all her company: his graves are about him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword: Compare verse2 commentaries
23 Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the living. Compare verse2 commentaries
24 There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which caused their terror in the land of the living; yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit. Compare verse2 commentaries
25 They have set her a bed in the middle of the slain with all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword: though their terror was caused in the land of the living, yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit: he is put in the middle of them that be slain. Compare verse2 commentaries
26 There is Meshech, 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. Compare verse2 commentaries
27 And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be on their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living. Compare verse2 commentaries
28 Yes, you shall be broken in the middle of the uncircumcised, and shall lie with them that are slain with the sword. Compare verse2 commentaries
29 There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes, which with their might are laid by them that were slain by the sword: they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with them that go down to the pit. Compare verse2 commentaries
30 There be the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, 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. Compare verse2 commentaries
31 Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword, said the Lord GOD. Compare verse2 commentaries
32 For I have caused my terror in the land of the living: and he shall be laid in the middle of the uncircumcised with them that are slain with the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, said the Lord GOD. Compare verse2 commentaries