1And it comes to pass, in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first of the month, a word of YHWH has been to me, saying,

2“Son of man, lift up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and you have said to him: You have been like a young lion of nations, "" And you [are] as a dragon in the seas, "" And you come forth with your flowings, "" And trouble the waters with your feet, "" And you foul their flowings.

3Thus said Lord YHWH: And I have spread out My net for you, "" With an assembly of many peoples, "" And they have brought you up in My net.

4And I have left you in the land, "" I cast you out on the face of the field, "" And I have caused every bird of the heavens to dwell on you, "" And have satisfied every beast of the earth with you.

5And I have put your flesh on the mountains, "" And filled the valleys [with] your heap,

6And watered the land with your flowing, "" From your blood—to the mountains, "" And streams are filled with you.

7And in quenching you I have covered the heavens, "" And have made their stars black, "" I cover the sun with a cloud, "" And the moon does not cause its light to shine.

8I make all luminaries of light in the heavens black over you, "" And I have given darkness over your land, "" A declaration of Lord YHWH,

9And I have distressed the heart of many peoples, "" In My bringing in your destruction among nations, "" To lands that you have not known. 10And I have made many peoples astonished at you, "" And their kings are afraid because of you with trembling, "" In My brandishing My sword before their faces, "" And they have trembled every moment, "" Each for his life—in the day of your fall.

11For thus said Lord YHWH: A sword of the king of Babylon enters you,

12I 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.

13And I have destroyed all her beasts, "" From beside many waters, "" And a foot of man does not trouble them anymore, "" Indeed, the hooves of beasts do not trouble them.

14Then I cause their waters to sink, "" And I cause their rivers to go as oil, "" A declaration of Lord YHWH.

15In My making the land of Egypt a desolation, "" And the land has been desolated of its fullness, "" In My striking all the inhabitants in it, "" Then they have known that I [am] YHWH.

16It [is] a lamentation, and they have lamented her, "" Daughters of the nations lament her, "" For Egypt, and for all her multitude, they lament her, "" A declaration of Lord YHWH.”

17And it comes to pass, in the twelfth year, on the fifteenth of the month, a word of YHWH has been to me, saying, 18“Son of man, "" Wail for the multitude of Egypt, "" And cause it to go down, "" It, and the daughters of majestic nations, "" To the lower parts of the earth, "" With those going down to the pit.

19Whom have you surpassed in beauty? Go down, and be laid with [the] uncircumcised.

20They fall in the midst of the pierced of the sword, "" She has been given [to] the sword, "" They drew her out, and all her multitude. 21The gods of the mighty speak to him out of the midst of Sheol, "" With his helpers—they have gone down, "" They have lain with the uncircumcised, "" The pierced of the sword.

22There [is] Asshur, and all her assembly, "" His graves [are] around him, "" All of them [are] wounded, who are falling by sword, 23Whose graves are appointed in the sides of the pit, "" And her assembly is around her grave, "" All of them wounded, falling by sword, "" Because they gave terror in the land of the living.

24There [is] Elam, and all her multitude, "" Around her grave, "" All of them wounded, who are falling by sword, "" Who have gone down uncircumcised to the lower parts of the earth, "" Because they gave their terror in the land of the living, "" And they bear their shame with those going down to the pit. 25They have appointed a bed for her in the midst of the wounded, "" With all her multitude, "" Her graves [are] around them, "" All of them uncircumcised, pierced of the sword, "" For their terror was given in the land of the living, "" And they bear their shame with those going down to the pit, "" He has been set in the midst of the pierced.

26There [is] Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude, "" Her graves [are] around them, "" All of them uncircumcised, pierced by the sword, "" For they gave their terror in the land of the living, 27And they do not lie with the mighty, "" Who are falling of the uncircumcised, "" Who have gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war, "" And they put their swords under their heads, "" And their iniquities are on their bones, "" For the terror of the mighty [is] in the land of the living. 28And you are broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, "" And lie with the pierced of the sword.

29There [is] Edom, her kings, and all her princes, "" Who have been given up in their might, "" With the pierced of the sword, "" They lie with the uncircumcised, "" And with those going down to the pit.

30There [are] princes of the north, "" All of them, and every Zidonian, "" Who have gone down with the pierced in their terror, "" They are ashamed of their might, "" And they lie uncircumcised with the pierced of the sword, "" And they bear their shame with those going down to the pit.

31Then Pharaoh sees, "" And he has been comforted for all his multitude, "" The pierced of the sword—Pharaoh and all his force, "" A declaration of Lord YHWH. 32For I have given his terror in the land of the living, "" And he has been laid down in [the] midst of [the] uncircumcised, "" With [the] pierced of [the] sword—Pharaoh, and all his multitude, "" A declaration of Lord YHWH!”