Eze 32:1-16 | ESV | STEP | In the twelfth year , in the twelfth month , on the first day of the month , the word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 32:1-16

A Lament over Pharaoh and Egypt

1 ^aIn the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me: 2 ^b“Son of man, ^craise a lamentation over ^dPharaoh king of Egypt and say to him:

“You consider yourself ^ea lion of the nations,
but you are like ^fa dragon ^gin the seas;
^hyou burst forth in your rivers,
trouble the waters with your feet,
and foul their rivers.
3 Thus says the Lord God:
ⁱI will throw my net over you
with a host of ^jmany peoples,
and ^kthey will haul you up in my dragnet.
4 And ^lI will cast you on the ground;
on the open field I will fling you,
and will cause all the birds of the heavens to settle on you,
and I will gorge the beasts of the whole earth with you.
5 I will strew your flesh ^mupon the mountains
and fill the valleys with your carcass. ^{▼▼Hebrew your height}
6 I will drench the land even to the mountains
with your flowing blood,
and the ravines will be full of you.
7 ^oWhen I blot you out, ^pI will cover the heavens
and make their stars dark;
I will cover the sun with a cloud,
and the moon shall not give its light.
8 All the bright lights of heaven
will I make dark over you,
and ^qput darkness on your land,

declares the Lord God.
9 “I will trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries that you have not known. 10 ^rI will make many peoples appalled at you, and the hair of their kings shall bristle with horror because of you, when ^sI brandish my sword before them. ^tThey shall tremble every moment, every one for his own life, on the day of your downfall.

11 “For thus says the Lord God: ^uThe sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon you. 12 I will cause ^vyour multitude to fall by the swords of mighty ones, all of them ^wmost ruthless of nations.

^x“They shall bring to ruin the pride of Egypt,
and all its multitude ^{▼▼Or wealth} shall perish.
13 I will destroy all its beasts
from beside many waters;
^zand no foot of man shall trouble them anymore,
nor shall the hoofs of beasts trouble them.
14 Then ^aaI will make their waters clear,
and cause their rivers to run like oil,

declares the Lord God.
15 When I make the land of Egypt desolate,
and when the land ^abis desolate of all that fills it,
when I strike down all who dwell in it,
then ^acthey will know that I am the Lord.
16 ^adThis is a lamentation that shall be chanted; the daughters of the nations shall chant it; over Egypt, and over ^aeall her multitude, shall they chant it, declares the Lord God.”