Ezekiel 32:12
New International Version
I will cause your hordes to fall by the swords of mighty men— the most ruthless of all nations. They will shatter the pride of Egypt, and all her hordes will be overthrown.

New Living Translation
I will destroy your hordes with the swords of mighty warriors— the terror of the nations. They will shatter the pride of Egypt, and all its hordes will be destroyed.

English Standard Version
I will cause your multitude to fall by the swords of mighty ones, all of them most ruthless of nations. “They shall bring to ruin the pride of Egypt, and all its multitude shall perish.

Berean Standard Bible
I will make your hordes fall by the swords of the mighty, the most ruthless of all nations. They will ravage the pride of Egypt and all her multitudes will be destroyed.

King James Bible
By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy 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.

New King James Version
By the swords of the mighty warriors, all of them the most terrible of the nations, I will cause your multitude to fall. “They shall plunder the pomp of Egypt, And all its multitude shall be destroyed.

New American Standard Bible
By the swords of the warriors I will make your multitude fall; all of them are tyrants of the nations, And they will devastate the pride of Egypt, And all its multitude will be destroyed.

NASB 1995
“By the swords of the mighty ones I will cause your hordes to fall; all of them are tyrants of the nations, And they will devastate the pride of Egypt, And all its hordes will be destroyed.

NASB 1977
“By the swords of the mighty ones I will cause your multitude to fall; all of them are tyrants of the nations, And they shall devastate the pride of Egypt, And all its multitude shall be destroyed.

Legacy Standard Bible
By the swords of the mighty ones I will cause your multitude to fall; all of them are ruthless ones of the nations, And they will devastate the lofty pride of Egypt, And all its multitude will be destroyed.

Amplified Bible
I will make your horde [of people] fall by the swords of the mighty—all of them are tyrants among the nations, And they will devastate the pride and presumption of Egypt, And all its hordes will be destroyed.

Christian Standard Bible
I will make your hordes fall by the swords of warriors, all of them ruthless men from the nations. They will ravage Egypt’s pride, and all its hordes will be destroyed.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I will make your hordes fall by the swords of warriors, all of them ruthless men from the nations. They will ravage Egypt’s pride, and all its hordes will be destroyed.

American Standard Version
By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall; the terrible of the nations are they all: and they shall bring to nought the pride of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed.

Contemporary English Version
Your soldiers will be killed by the cruelest army in the world, and everything you take pride in will be crushed.

English Revised Version
By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall; the terrible of the nations are they all: and they shall spoil the pride of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
I will cut down your people with the swords of warriors. All of them will be the most ruthless warriors among the nations. They will shatter the pride of Egypt and destroy its many people.

Good News Translation
I will let soldiers from cruel nations draw their swords and kill all your people. All your people and everything else that you are proud of will be destroyed.

International Standard Version
I'm going to make your gangs die using the weapons of valiant warriors, all of whom are ruthless people. 'They will devastate the majesty of Egypt, destroying all of its hordes.

Majority Standard Bible
I will make your hordes fall by the swords of the mighty, the most ruthless of all nations. They will ravage the pride of Egypt and all her multitudes will be destroyed.

NET Bible
By the swords of the mighty warriors I will cause your hordes to fall--all of them are the most terrifying among the nations. They will devastate the pride of Egypt, and all its hordes will be destroyed.

New Heart English Bible
By the swords of the mighty will I cause your multitude to fall; the terrible of the nations are they all: and they shall bring to nothing the pride of Egypt, and all its multitude shall be destroyed.

Webster's Bible Translation
By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall, the terrible of the nations, all of them: and they shall lay waste the pomp of Egypt, and all its multitude shall be destroyed.

World English Bible
I will cause your multitude to fall by the swords of the mighty. They are all the ruthless of the nations. They will bring the pride of Egypt to nothing, and all its multitude will be destroyed.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
I cause your multitude to fall by swords of the mighty, "" The terrible of nations—all of them, "" And they have spoiled the excellence of Egypt, "" And all her multitude has been destroyed.

Young's Literal Translation
By swords of the mighty I cause thy multitude to fall, The terrible of nations -- all of them, And they have spoiled the excellency of Egypt, And destroyed hath been all her multitude.

Smith's Literal Translation
By the swords of the strong will I cause thy multitude to fall, the terrible of the nations, all of them: and they destroyed the pride of Egypt, and all her multitude were destroyed.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
By the swords of the mighty I will overthrow thy multitude: all these nations are invincible: and they shall waste the pride of Egypt, and the multitude thereof shall be destroyed.

Catholic Public Domain Version
By the swords of the strong, I will cast down your multitude. All these nations are invincible, and they will lay waste to the arrogance of Egypt, and so its multitude will be destroyed.

New American Bible
I will cut down your hordes with the swords of warriors, all of them, ruthless nations; They will lay waste the glory of Egypt, and all its hordes will be destroyed.

New Revised Standard Version
I will cause your hordes to fall by the swords of mighty ones, all of them most terrible among the nations. They shall bring to ruin the pride of Egypt, and all its hordes shall perish.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
By the sword of mighty men will I cause your might to fall, and with the sword of all the mighty men of the nations; and they shall spoil the strength of Egypt, and all its wealth shall be plundered.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
By the sword of mighty men I shall throw down your might, and of all the strong ones of the nations, and they shall plunder the strength of Egypt, and all its wealth shall be plundered
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall; The terrible of the nations are they all; And they shall spoil the pride of Egypt, And all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
with the swords of mighty men; and I will cast down thy strength: they are all destroying ones from the nations, and they shall destroy the pride of Egypt, and all her strength shall be crushed.

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Context
A Lament for Pharaoh King of Egypt
11For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘The sword of the king of Babylon will come against you! 12I will make your hordes fall by the swords of the mighty, the most ruthless of all nations. They will ravage the pride of Egypt and all her multitudes will be destroyed. 13I will slaughter all her cattle beside the abundant waters. No human foot will muddy them again, and no cattle hooves will disturb them.…

Cross References
Isaiah 14:9-11
Sheol beneath is eager to meet you upon your arrival. It stirs the spirits of the dead to greet you—all the rulers of the earth. It makes all the kings of the nations rise from their thrones. / They will all respond to you, saying, “You too have become weak, as we are; you have become like us!” / Your pomp has been brought down to Sheol, along with the music of your harps. Maggots are your bed and worms your blanket.

Jeremiah 50:35-37
A sword is against the Chaldeans, declares the LORD, against those who live in Babylon, and against her officials and wise men. / A sword is against her false prophets, and they will become fools. A sword is against her warriors, and they will be filled with terror. / A sword is against her horses and chariots and against all the foreigners in her midst, and they will become like women. A sword is against her treasuries, and they will be plundered.

Jeremiah 51:20-23
“You are My war club, My weapon for battle. With you I shatter nations; with you I bring kingdoms to ruin. / With you I shatter the horse and rider; with you I shatter the chariot and driver. / With you I shatter man and woman; with you I shatter the old man and the youth; with you I shatter the young man and the maiden. ...

Isaiah 13:15-18
Whoever is caught will be stabbed, and whoever is captured will die by the sword. / Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes, their houses will be looted, and their wives will be ravished. / Behold, I will stir up against them the Medes, who have no regard for silver and no desire for gold. ...

Isaiah 34:5-7
When My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens, then it will come down upon Edom, upon the people I have devoted to destruction. / The sword of the LORD is bathed in blood. It drips with fat—with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, a great slaughter in the land of Edom. / And the wild oxen will fall with them, the young bulls with the strong ones. Their land will be drenched with blood, and their soil will be soaked with fat.

Nahum 3:1-3
Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without prey. / The crack of the whip, the rumble of the wheel, galloping horse and bounding chariot! / Charging horseman, flashing sword, shining spear; heaps of slain, mounds of corpses, dead bodies without end—they stumble over their dead—

Zephaniah 1:17
I will bring such distress on mankind that they will walk like the blind, because they have sinned against the LORD. Their blood will be poured out like dust and their flesh like dung.

Revelation 19:17-18
Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and he cried out in a loud voice to all the birds flying overhead, “Come, gather together for the great supper of God, / so that you may eat the flesh of kings and commanders and mighty men, of horses and riders, of everyone slave and free, small and great.”

Revelation 6:4
Then another horse went forth. It was bright red, and its rider was granted permission to take away peace from the earth and to make men slay one another. And he was given a great sword.

Revelation 19:21
And the rest were killed with the sword that proceeded from the mouth of the One seated on the horse. And all the birds gorged themselves on their flesh.

Jeremiah 25:33
Those slain by the LORD on that day will be spread from one end of the earth to the other. They will not be mourned, gathered, or buried. They will be like dung lying on the ground.

Isaiah 66:16
For by fire and by His sword, the LORD will execute judgment on all flesh, and many will be slain by the LORD.

Isaiah 10:16-19
Therefore the Lord GOD of Hosts will send a wasting disease among Assyria’s stout warriors, and under his pomp will be kindled a fire like a burning flame. / And the Light of Israel will become a fire, and its Holy One a flame. In a single day it will burn and devour Assyria’s thorns and thistles. / The splendor of its forests and orchards, both soul and body, it will completely destroy, as a sickness consumes a man. ...

Isaiah 31:8
“Then Assyria will fall, but not by the sword of man; a sword will devour them, but not one made by mortals. They will flee before the sword, and their young men will be put to forced labor.

Jeremiah 46:10
For that day belongs to the Lord GOD of Hosts, a day of vengeance against His foes. The sword will devour until it is satisfied, until it is quenched with their blood. For the Lord GOD of Hosts will hold a sacrifice in the land of the north by the River Euphrates.


Treasury of Scripture

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.

the terrible

Ezekiel 28:7
Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.

Ezekiel 30:11
He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought to destroy the land: and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.

Ezekiel 31:11
I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness.

they shall

Ezekiel 29:19
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army.

Isaiah 25:2,3
For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built…

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Ezekiel 32
1. A lamentation for the fearful fall of Egypt
11. The sword of Babylon shall destroy it
17. It shall be brought down to hell, among all the uncircumcised nations














I will cause
This phrase indicates divine intervention and sovereignty. In Hebrew, the verb used here is "עָשָׂה" (asah), which means to make or to do. It emphasizes God's active role in the unfolding events. Theologically, it underscores the belief that God is not a passive observer but an active participant in the affairs of nations, orchestrating events according to His divine will.

your hordes
The term "hordes" refers to the vast armies or multitudes associated with Egypt. In the Hebrew text, the word "הָמוֹן" (hamon) is used, which can mean a multitude or a noisy crowd. Historically, Egypt was known for its large and formidable military forces. This phrase suggests the impending downfall of what was once considered a powerful and intimidating force.

to fall
The concept of falling in this context implies defeat and destruction. The Hebrew root "נָפַל" (naphal) conveys the idea of being overthrown or brought down. This is a common biblical motif where prideful nations or individuals are humbled by divine judgment. It serves as a reminder of the transient nature of earthly power and the ultimate authority of God.

by the swords
The sword is a symbol of warfare and judgment. In ancient times, the sword was the primary weapon of battle, representing both physical and divine judgment. The use of swords here signifies a violent and decisive end, highlighting the severity of the judgment that God is pronouncing against Egypt.

of mighty men
This phrase refers to warriors of great strength and valor. The Hebrew word "גִּבּוֹרִים" (gibborim) is used, which denotes heroes or champions. These are not ordinary soldiers but elite fighters, emphasizing the overwhelming force that will be used to execute God's judgment. It reflects the idea that God uses the mightiest of human instruments to accomplish His purposes.

the most ruthless of all the nations
The description of these men as "ruthless" underscores their ferocity and lack of mercy. The Hebrew word "עַרְצָלִים" (arzal) conveys a sense of terror and brutality. Historically, this could refer to the Babylonians, known for their harsh military campaigns. This phrase serves as a warning of the severe consequences of opposing God's will.

They will shatter
The act of shattering implies complete destruction. The Hebrew verb "שָׁבַר" (shabar) means to break or destroy. This imagery suggests not just a defeat but a total dismantling of Egypt's power and pride. It is a vivid portrayal of the comprehensive nature of divine judgment.

the pride of Egypt
Pride is often depicted in the Bible as a precursor to downfall. Egypt, with its rich history and powerful empire, was known for its arrogance and self-reliance. The Hebrew word "גָּאוֹן" (ga'on) refers to majesty or arrogance. This phrase highlights the biblical theme that God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.

and all its hordes will be destroyed
The finality of this statement is emphasized by the word "destroyed," which in Hebrew is "שָׁמַד" (shamad), meaning to annihilate or exterminate. It signifies the complete and utter end of Egypt's military might. This serves as a sobering reminder of the consequences of defying God and the ultimate futility of human power against divine judgment.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
I will make your hordes
הֲמוֹנֶ֔ךָ (hă·mō·w·ne·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 1995: A noise, tumult, crowd, disquietude, wealth

fall
אַפִּ֣יל (’ap·pîl)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 5307: To fall, lie

by the swords
בְּחַרְב֤וֹת (bə·ḥar·ḇō·wṯ)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine plural construct
Strong's 2719: Drought, a cutting instrument, as a, knife, sword

of the mighty,
גִּבּוֹרִים֙ (gib·bō·w·rîm)
Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's 1368: Powerful, warrior, tyrant

the most ruthless
עָרִיצֵ֥י (‘ā·rî·ṣê)
Adjective - masculine plural construct
Strong's 6184: Awe-inspiring, terror-striking

of all
כֻּלָּ֑ם (kul·lām)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

nations.
גוֹיִ֖ם (ḡō·w·yim)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 1471: A foreign nation, a Gentile, a troop of animals, a flight of locusts

They will ravage
וְשָֽׁדְדוּ֙ (wə·šā·ḏə·ḏū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 7703: To deal violently with, despoil, devastate, ruin

the pride
גְּא֣וֹן (gə·’ō·wn)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1347: Arrogance, majesty, ornament

of Egypt
מִצְרַ֔יִם (miṣ·ra·yim)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 4714: Egypt -- a son of Ham, also his descendants and their country in Northwest Africa

and all
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

her multitudes
הֲמוֹנָֽהּ׃ (hă·mō·w·nāh)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 1995: A noise, tumult, crowd, disquietude, wealth

will be destroyed.
וְנִשְׁמַ֖ד (wə·niš·maḏ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 8045: To be exterminated or destroyed


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