MLV(i)
1 And it happened in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month, that the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
2 Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh King of Egypt and say to him, You were compared to a young lion of the nations. Yet you are as a monster in the seas and you broke forth with your rivers and troubled the waters with your feet and fouled their rivers.
3 The lord Jehovah says thus: I will spread out my net upon you with a company of many peoples and they will bring you up in my net. 4 And I will leave you upon the land. I will cast you forth upon the open field and will cause all the birds of the heavens to settle upon you and I will satisfy the beasts of the whole earth with you.
5 And I will lay your flesh upon the mountains and fill the valleys with your height. 6 I will also water the land, in which you swim, with your blood, even to the mountains. And the watercourses will be full of you.
7 And when I will extinguish you, I will cover the heavens and make the stars of it dark. I will cover the sun with a cloud and the moon will not give its light. 8 All the bright lights of heaven I will make dark over you and set darkness upon your land, says the lord Jehovah.
9 I will also distress the hearts of many peoples when I will bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries which you have not known. 10 Yes, I will make many peoples amazed at you. And their kings will be horribly afraid for you when I will brandish my sword before them. And they will tremble at every moment, each man for his own life, in the day of your fall.
11 For thus says the lord Jehovah: The sword of the king of Babylon will come upon you. 12 By the swords of the mighty I will cause your multitude to fall. They are all the terrible of the nations. And they will bring to nothing the pride of Egypt and all the multitude of it will be destroyed.
13 I will destroy also all the beasts of it from beside many waters. Neither the foot of man will trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them.
14 Then I will make their waters clear and cause their rivers to run like oil, says the lord Jehovah. 15 When I will make the land of Egypt desolate and waste, a land destitute of that of which it was full, when I will kill* all those who dwell in it, then they will know that I am Jehovah.
16 This is the lamentation with which they will lament. The daughters of the nations will lament with that over Egypt and over all her multitude. They will lament with that, says the lord Jehovah.
17 It happened also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day of the month, that the word of Jehovah came to me, saying, 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 those who go down into the pit.
19 Whom do you pass in beauty? Go down and be laid with the uncircumcised. 20 They will fall in the midst of those who are slain by the sword. She is delivered to the sword. Draw her away and all her multitudes. 21 The strong among the mighty will speak to him out of the midst of Sheol with those who help him. They have gone down. They lie still, even the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
22 Asshur is there and all her company. Her graves are all around her, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, 23 whose graves are set in the outermost parts of the pit. And her company is all around her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who caused terror in the land of the living.
24 There is Elam and all her multitude all around her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who have gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, who caused their terror in the land of the living and have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit.
25 They have set a bed for her in the midst of the slain with all her multitude. Her graves are all around her, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword. For their terror was caused in the land of the living and they have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit. He is put in the midst of those who are slain.
26 There is Meshech, Tubal and all their multitude. Their graves are all around them, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, for they caused their terror in the land of the living.
27 And they will not lie with the mighty who are fallen of the uncircumcised, who have gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war and have laid their swords under their heads. But their iniquities are upon their bones, for they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.
28 But you will be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised and will lie with those who are slain by the sword.
29 There is Edom, its kings and all its rulers, who in their might are laid with those who are slain by the sword. They will lie with the uncircumcised and with those who go down to the pit.
30 There are the rulers of the north, all of them and all the Sidonians, who have gone down with the slain. In the terror which they caused by their might they are put to shame. And they lie uncircumcised with those who are 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 multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army, slain by the sword, says the lord Jehovah. 32 For I have put his terror in the land of the living and he will be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the lord Jehovah.
3 The lord Jehovah says thus: I will spread out my net upon you with a company of many peoples and they will bring you up in my net. 4 And I will leave you upon the land. I will cast you forth upon the open field and will cause all the birds of the heavens to settle upon you and I will satisfy the beasts of the whole earth with you.
5 And I will lay your flesh upon the mountains and fill the valleys with your height. 6 I will also water the land, in which you swim, with your blood, even to the mountains. And the watercourses will be full of you.
7 And when I will extinguish you, I will cover the heavens and make the stars of it dark. I will cover the sun with a cloud and the moon will not give its light. 8 All the bright lights of heaven I will make dark over you and set darkness upon your land, says the lord Jehovah.
9 I will also distress the hearts of many peoples when I will bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries which you have not known. 10 Yes, I will make many peoples amazed at you. And their kings will be horribly afraid for you when I will brandish my sword before them. And they will tremble at every moment, each man for his own life, in the day of your fall.
11 For thus says the lord Jehovah: The sword of the king of Babylon will come upon you. 12 By the swords of the mighty I will cause your multitude to fall. They are all the terrible of the nations. And they will bring to nothing the pride of Egypt and all the multitude of it will be destroyed.
13 I will destroy also all the beasts of it from beside many waters. Neither the foot of man will trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them.
14 Then I will make their waters clear and cause their rivers to run like oil, says the lord Jehovah. 15 When I will make the land of Egypt desolate and waste, a land destitute of that of which it was full, when I will kill* all those who dwell in it, then they will know that I am Jehovah.
16 This is the lamentation with which they will lament. The daughters of the nations will lament with that over Egypt and over all her multitude. They will lament with that, says the lord Jehovah.
17 It happened also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day of the month, that the word of Jehovah came to me, saying, 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 those who go down into the pit.
19 Whom do you pass in beauty? Go down and be laid with the uncircumcised. 20 They will fall in the midst of those who are slain by the sword. She is delivered to the sword. Draw her away and all her multitudes. 21 The strong among the mighty will speak to him out of the midst of Sheol with those who help him. They have gone down. They lie still, even the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
22 Asshur is there and all her company. Her graves are all around her, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, 23 whose graves are set in the outermost parts of the pit. And her company is all around her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who caused terror in the land of the living.
24 There is Elam and all her multitude all around her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who have gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, who caused their terror in the land of the living and have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit.
25 They have set a bed for her in the midst of the slain with all her multitude. Her graves are all around her, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword. For their terror was caused in the land of the living and they have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit. He is put in the midst of those who are slain.
26 There is Meshech, Tubal and all their multitude. Their graves are all around them, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, for they caused their terror in the land of the living.
27 And they will not lie with the mighty who are fallen of the uncircumcised, who have gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war and have laid their swords under their heads. But their iniquities are upon their bones, for they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.
28 But you will be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised and will lie with those who are slain by the sword.
29 There is Edom, its kings and all its rulers, who in their might are laid with those who are slain by the sword. They will lie with the uncircumcised and with those who go down to the pit.
30 There are the rulers of the north, all of them and all the Sidonians, who have gone down with the slain. In the terror which they caused by their might they are put to shame. And they lie uncircumcised with those who are 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 multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army, slain by the sword, says the lord Jehovah. 32 For I have put his terror in the land of the living and he will be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the lord Jehovah.