Ezekiel 32 :: Amplified Bible (AMP)

In the twelfth year [after King Jehoiachin of Judah was taken into exile by the king of Babylon], in the twelfth month, on the first of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

‘You have compared yourself to a young lion among the nations,

But you are like a monster in the seas;

You burst into your rivers

And disturbed and muddied the waters with your feet

And fouled their rivers [the source of their prosperity].’”

Thus says the Lord GOD,

“I will spread out My net over you

With a company of many nations,

And they will bring you up in My net.

“Then I will leave you (Egypt) on the land;

I will hurl you on the open field.

And I will make all the birds of the sky dwell on you,

And I will satisfy the animals of all the earth with you.

“And I will scatter your flesh on the mountains

And fill the valleys with your debris [your corpses and their worms].

“I will also water the land with your flowing blood

As far as the mountains,

And the ravines will be full of you.

“And when I extinguish you,

I will cover the heavens [of Egypt] and darken their stars;

I will cover the sun with a cloud

And the moon will not give its light.

“All the bright lights in the heavens

I will darken over you

And I will place darkness on your land,”

Says the Lord GOD.

“I will also put fear into the hearts of many peoples when I bring your destruction [and captivity] among the nations, into countries which you have not known.

For thus says the Lord GOD, “The sword of the king of Babylon will come on you.

And they will devastate the pride and presumption of Egypt,

And all its hordes will be destroyed.

“I will also destroy all its cattle from beside its great waters;

And the foot of man will not muddy them anymore

Nor will the hoofs of the animals muddy them.

“Then I will make their waters quiet and clear;

I will make their rivers run [slowly and smoothly] like oil,”

Says the Lord GOD.

“When I make the land of Egypt desolate,

And the country is stripped and deprived of all that which filled it,

When I strike all those who live in it,

Then they will know [without any doubt] that I am the LORD.

“This is the dirge (funeral poem to be sung) and they shall sing it [for her]. The daughters of the nations shall sing it; for Egypt and for all her hordes they shall sing it,” says the Lord GOD.

In the twelfth year [after King Jehoiachin of Judah was taken into exile], on the fifteenth of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

‘Whom [among them] do you surpass in beauty?

Go down and make your bed with the uncircumcised (the barbaric, the boorish, the crude).’

“They will fall among those who are slain by the sword. She (Egypt) is handed over to the sword; they have drawn her and all her hordes away [to judgment].

“Assyria is there with all her warriors; their graves are all around her. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword,

“[fn]Elam [a conquest of Assyria] is there and all her hordes around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who have gone down uncircumcised to the lower parts of the earth, who made their terror spread in the land of the living and bore their shame and defeat with those who went down to the pit.

“Meshech, Tubal, and all their hordes are there; their graves [fn]surround them. All of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, for they spread their terror in the land of the living.

“Edom is there also, her kings and all her princes, who for all their power and strength are laid with those who were slain by the sword; they will lie [in shame and defeat] with the uncircumcised and with those who go down to the pit.

“The princes of the north are there also, all of them, and all the Sidonians, who in spite of the terror resulting from their power, have gone down in shame with the slain. So they lay down uncircumcised with those slain by the sword and bore their disgrace with those who go down to the pit.

“Pharaoh will see them, and he will be comforted for all his hordes slain by the sword—Pharaoh and all his army,” says the Lord GOD.