Ezekiel 32

A Lament for Pharaoh King of Egypt

¹In the twelfth year, on the first day of the twelfth month, the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, ²“Son of man, take up a lament for Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him:

‘You are like a lion among the nations;

you are like a monster in the seas.

You thrash about in your rivers,

churning up the waters with your feet

and muddying the streams.’

• EZK 32:2[NOTE]A LION OR A MONSTER. Pharaoh thought he was a lion among the nations. God says he is more like a monster thrashing in the water and muddying the rivers.

³This is what the Lord Yahweh says:

‘I will spread My net over you

with a company of many peoples,

and they will draw you up in My net.

⁴I will abandon you on the land

and hurl you into the open field.

I will cause all the birds of the air

to settle upon you,

and all the beasts of the earth

to eat their fill of you.

⁵I will put your flesh on the mountains

and fill the valleys with your remains.

⁶I will drench the land

with the flow of your blood,

all the way to the mountains—

the ravines will be filled.

⁷When I extinguish you,

I will cover the heavens

and darken their stars.

I will cover the sun with a cloud,

and the moon will not give its light.

⁸All the shining lights in the heavens

I will darken over you,

and I will bring darkness

upon your land,’

declares the Lord Yahweh.

⁹‘I will trouble the hearts of many peoples,

when I bring about your destruction among the nations,

in countries you do not know.

¹⁰I will cause many peoples

to be appalled over you,

and their kings will shudder in horror because of you

when I brandish My sword before them.

On the day of your downfall

each of them will tremble

every moment for his life.’

¹¹For this is what the Lord Yahweh says:

‘The sword of the king of Babylon

will come against you!

• EZK 32:11[PROPHECY]The sword of the king of Babylon would come against Egypt → HISTORY: Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon invaded Egypt in 568 BC. Found on a broken Babylonian tablet, British Museum BM 33041.MEDIUM

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.

¹⁴Then I will let her waters settle

and will make her rivers flow like oil,’

declares the Lord Yahweh.

¹⁵‘When I make the land of Egypt a desolation

and empty it of all that filled it,

when I strike down all who live there,

then they will know that I am Yahweh.’

¹⁶This is the lament they will chant for her; the daughters of the nations will chant it. Over Egypt and all her multitudes they will chant it, declares the Lord Yahweh.”

Egypt Cast into the Pit

¹⁷In the twelfth year, on the fifteenth day of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, ¹⁸“Son of man, wail for the multitudes of Egypt, and consign her and the daughters of the mighty nations to the depths of the earth with those who descend to the Pit:

• EZK 32:18[NOTE]THE PIT. The place of the dead. Assyria, Elam, Meshech, Tubal, Edom and Sidon are already there, 32:22 to 30. Every proud empire ends up in the same place.

¹⁹Whom do you surpass in beauty?

Go down and be placed with the uncircumcised!

²⁰They will fall among those slain by the sword.

The sword is appointed!

Let them drag her away

along with all her multitudes.

²¹Mighty chiefs will speak from the midst of Sheol

about Egypt and her allies:

‘They have come down and lie with the uncircumcised,

with those slain by the sword.’

²²Assyria is there with her whole company;

her graves are all around her.

All of them are slain,

fallen by the sword.

²³Her graves are set in the depths of the Pit,

and her company is all around her grave.

All of them are slain,

fallen by the sword—

those who once spread terror

in the land of the living.

²⁴Elam is there

with all her multitudes around her grave.

All of them are slain,

fallen by the sword—

those who went down uncircumcised

to the earth below,

who once spread their terror

in the land of the living.

They bear their disgrace

with those who descend to the Pit.

²⁵Among the slain they prepare

a resting place for Elam

with all her hordes,

with her graves all around her.

All of them are uncircumcised,

slain by the sword,

although their terror was once spread

in the land of the living.

They bear their disgrace

with those who descend to the Pit.

They are placed among the slain.

²⁶Meshech and Tubal are there

with all their multitudes,

with their graves all around them.

All of them are uncircumcised,

slain by the sword,

because they spread their terror

in the land of the living.

²⁷They do not lie down

with the fallen warriors of old,

who went down to Sheol

with their weapons of war,

whose swords were placed under their heads,

whose shields rested on their bones,

although the terror of the mighty

was once in the land of the living.

²⁸But you too will be shattered

and lie down among the uncircumcised,

with those slain by the sword.

²⁹Edom is there,

and all her kings and princes,

who despite their might

are laid among those slain by the sword.

They lie down with the uncircumcised,

with those who descend to the Pit.

³⁰All the leaders of the north

and all the Sidonians are there;

they went down in disgrace with the slain,

despite the terror of their might.

They lie uncircumcised

with those slain by the sword

and bear their shame

with those who descend to the Pit.

³¹Pharaoh will see them

and be comforted over all his multitude—

Pharaoh and all his army,

slain by the sword,

declares the Lord Yahweh.

³²For I will spread My terror

in the land of the living,

so that Pharaoh and all his multitude

will be laid to rest among the uncircumcised,

with those slain by the sword,

declares the Lord Yahweh.”