A Lament over Pharaoh and Egypt
And it happened in the atwelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me saying, 2 “Son of man, take up a alamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him,
‘You liken yourself to a young blion of the nations,
Yet you are like the cmonster in the seas;
And you dburst forth in your rivers
And muddied the waters with your feet
And fouled their rivers.’”
3 Thus says Lord Yahweh,
“So I will aspread My net over you
With an assembly of many peoples,
And they shall bring you up in My net.
4 I will abandon you on the land;
I will hurl you on the open field.
And I will cause all the abirds of the sky to dwell on you,
And I will satisfy the beasts of the whole earth with you.
5 I will put your flesh aon the mountains
And fill the valleys with your refuse.
6 I will also make the land drink the discharge of your ablood
As far as the mountains,
And the ravines will be full of you.
7 And when I aextinguish you,
I will bcover the heavens and darken their cstars;
I will cover the dsun with a cloud,
And the moon will not give its light.
8 All the shining alights in the heavens
I will darken over you
And will give darkness on your land,”
Declares Lord Yahweh.
9 “I will also avex the hearts of many peoples when I bbring your destruction among the nations, into lands which you have not known. 10 I will make many peoples aappalled at you, and their kings will be horribly afraid of you when I brandish My sword before them; and bthey will tremble every moment, every man for his own life, on the day of your downfall.”
11 For athus says Lord Yahweh, “The sword of the king of Babylon will come upon you. 12 By the swords of the mighty ones I will cause your multitude to fall; all of them are aruthless ones of the nations,
And they will bdevastate the lofty pride of Egypt,
And all its multitude will be destroyed.
13 I will also make all its cattle perish from beside many waters;
And athe foot of man will not muddy them anymore,
And the hoofs of beasts will not muddy them.
14 Then I will make their waters settle
And will cause their rivers to run like oil,”
Declares Lord Yahweh.
15 “When I make the land of Egypt a adesolation,
And the land is desolate of its fullness,
When I strike all those who inhabit it,
Then they shall bknow that I am Yahweh.
16 This is a alamentation, and they shall lament over it. The daughters of the nations shall lament over it. Over Egypt and over all her multitude they shall lament over it,” declares Lord Yahweh.