KJ3 Literal Translation
Ezekiel 32
A lamentation for the fearful fall of Egypt.
1And it happened in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first of the month, the Word of Jehovah was to me, saying,
2Son of man, lift up a lament over Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and say to him, You were like a young lion of the nations, and you were like the monster in the seas. And you burst forth in your rivers and stirred up the waters with your feet and fouled their rivers.
3So says the Lord Jehovah: And I will spread out My net over you with an assembly of many peoples, and they will make you go up in My net.
4And I will leave you on the land; I will hurl you on the face of the field and will make all the birds of the heavens to dwell on you. And I will fill the beasts of all the earth from you.
5And I will put your flesh on the mountains and fill the valleys with your heap.
6And I will water the land covered from your blood to the mountains, and the ravines shall be full of you.
7And I will cover the heavens when I quench you, and I will darken their stars. I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not shine its light.
8I will darken all the luminaries of light in the heavens over you and will give darkness on your land, a statement of the Lord Jehovah.
9I will also provoke to anger the heart of many peoples when I bring your breaking among the nations, to the lands which you have not known.
10And I will make many people appalled at you, and their kings will be horribly afraid at you, when I make My sword fly before their faces. And they shall tremble at every moment, each man for his own life, in the day of your fall.
11For so says the Lord Jehovah: The sword of the king of Babylon shall come on you.
12By the swords of the mighty I will make your host fall, by the fearful of the nations, all of them. And they shall spoil the pride of Egypt, and all its host shall be destroyed.
13I will also destroy all her beasts from on the great waters, and the foot of man shall not stir them any longer, and the hoofs of beasts shall not stir them up.
14Then I will make their waters sink and cause their rivers to go down like oil, a statement of the Lord Jehovah.
15When I shall give the land of Egypt to be a desolation, and the land shall be wasted of its fullness when I shall strike all those who dwell in it; and they shall know that I am Jehovah.
16This is a lamentation, and they shall lament her; the daughters of the nations shall lament her. Over Egypt and over all her multitude, they shall lament her, a statement of the Lord Jehovah.
17And it happened in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth of the month, the Word of Jehovah was to me, saying,
18Son of man, wail over the host of Egypt, and bring it down, her and the daughters of the majestic nations, to the earth's lowest parts, with those going down to the Pit.
19Than whom are you more lovely? Go down and be laid with the uncircumcised.
20They shall fall in the midst of the pierced ones of the sword. She is given to the sword; they draw her and all her multitudes.
21The strong of the mighty ones shall speak to him from the midst of Sheol, they went with his helpers; they, the uncircumcised, lie pierced by the sword.
22There is Assyria and all her assembly. All around him are his graves, all of them are pierced ones fallen by the sword;
23of whom are given her graves in the recesses of the Pit, and her assembly is round about her grave, all of them pierced ones, fallen by the sword, because they gave terror in the land of the living.
24There is Elam and all her multitude around her grave, all of them pierced ones, fallen by the sword, who went down uncircumcised into the earth's lowest parts, who gave their terror in the land of the living. Yet they bore their shame with those going down to the Pit.
25In the midst of the pierced ones they have put a bed for her, with all her multitude. Her graves are round about him, all of them uncircumcised, pierced ones by the sword. Though their terror was given in the land of the living, yet they have borne their shame with those going down to the Pit; he is put in the midst of the pierced ones.
26There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude; round about him are her graves, all of them uncircumcised, pierced ones by the sword, though they gave their terror in the land of the living.
27And they shall not lie with the mighty ones of the uncircumcised who are fallen, who have gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war. And they have put their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be on their bones, though the terror of the mighty ones was in the land of the living.
28And you shall be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised and shall lie with the pierced ones by the sword.
29There is Edom, her kings, and all her rulers, who in their might are given to be with the pierced ones by the sword. They shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with those going down to the Pit.
30These are the rulers of the north, all of them, and all the Sidonians, who have gone down with the pierced ones in their terror. They are ashamed of their might. And they lie uncircumcised with the pierced ones by the sword, and bear their shame with those going down to the Pit.
31Pharaoh shall see them and be consoled over all his multitude, the pierced ones by the sword, Pharaoh and all the army, a statement of the Lord Jehovah.
32For I had put his terror in the land of the living, but he will be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised, with the pierced ones by the sword, Pharaoh and all his multitude, a statement of Jehovah.
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