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Ezekiel 32 :: New American Standard Bible 2020 (NASB20)

Grief over Pharaoh and Egypt

Eze 32:1

In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Eze 32:2“Son of man, take up a song of mourning over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him,

‘You [fn]compared yourself to a young lion of the nations,

Yet you are like the monster in the seas;

And you burst forth in your rivers

And muddied the waters with your feet

And [fn]fouled their rivers.’”

Eze 32:3

This is what the Lord [fn]GOD says:

“Now I will spread My net over you

With a contingent of many peoples,

And they will lift you up in My net.

Eze 32:4

“I will leave you on the land;

I will hurl you on the [fn]open field.

And I will cause all the birds of the sky to [fn]nest on you,

And I will satisfy the animals of the whole earth [fn]with you.

Eze 32:5

“I will lay your flesh on the mountains

And fill the valleys with your refuse.

Eze 32:6

“I will also make the land drink the discharge of your blood

As far as the mountains,

And the ravines will be full of you.

Eze 32:7

“And when 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.

Eze 32:8

“All the shining lights in the heavens

I will darken over you

And will set darkness on your land,”

Declares the Lord GOD.

Eze 32:9

“I will also trouble the hearts of many peoples when I bring your destruction among the nations, into lands which you have not known.

Eze 32:10“And I will make many peoples appalled at you, and their kings will be horribly afraid of you when I brandish My sword before them; and they will tremble again and again, every person for his own life, on the day of your fall.”
Eze 32:11

For the Lord GOD says this: “The sword of the king of Babylon will [fn]attack you.

Eze 32:12“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.

Eze 32:13

“I will also eliminate all its cattle from beside many waters;

And a human foot will not muddy them anymore,

And the hoofs of animals will not muddy them.

Eze 32:14

“Then I will make their waters settle,

And make their rivers run like oil,”

Declares the Lord GOD.

Eze 32:15

“When I make the land of Egypt a desolation,

And the land is destitute of that which filled it,

When I strike all those who live in it,

Then they shall know that I am the LORD.

Eze 32:16

“This is a song of mourning, and they shall sing it. The daughters of the nations shall sing it. Over Egypt and over all her hordes they shall sing it,” declares the Lord GOD.

Eze 32:17

In the twelfth year, on the fifteenth of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Eze 32:18“Son of man, lament for the hordes of Egypt and bring it down, her and the daughters of the mighty nations, to the netherworld, with those who go down to the pit;
Eze 32:19

‘Whom do you surpass in beauty?

Go down and make your bed with the uncircumcised.’

Eze 32:20

“They shall fall in the midst of those who are killed by the sword. [fn]She is turned over to the sword; they have dragged her and all her hordes away.

Eze 32:21“The strong among the mighty ones shall speak of him and his helpers from the midst of Sheol: ‘They have gone down, they lie still, the uncircumcised, killed by the sword.’
Eze 32:22

“Assyria is there and all her company; [fn]her graves are all around [fn]her. All of them killed, fallen by the sword,

Eze 32:23whose graves are set in the remotest parts of the pit, and her company is all around her grave. All of them killed, fallen by the sword, who [fn]spread terror in the land of the living.
Eze 32:24

“Elam is there and all her hordes around her grave; all of them killed, fallen by the sword, who went down uncircumcised to the lower parts of the earth, who inflicted their terror on the land of the living, and bore their disgrace with those who go down to the pit.

Eze 32:25“They have made a bed for her among the slain with all her hordes. Her graves are around it, they are all uncircumcised, killed by the sword (although their terror was [fn]inflicted on the land of the living), and they bore their disgrace with those who go down to the pit; [fn]they were put in the midst of the slain.
Eze 32:26

“Meshech, Tubal, and all their hordes are there; their graves [fn]surround them. All of them were killed by the sword uncircumcised, though they inflicted their terror on the land of the living.

Eze 32:27“Nor do they lie beside the fallen [fn]heroes of the uncircumcised, who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war and whose swords were placed under their heads; but the punishment for their wrongdoing rested on their bones, though the terror of these [fn]heroes was once in the land of the living.
Eze 32:28“But in the midst of the uncircumcised you will be broken and lie with those killed by the sword.
Eze 32:29

“There also is Edom, its kings and all its [fn]princes, who [fn]despite all their might are laid with those killed by the sword; they will lie with the uncircumcised and with those who go down to the pit.

Eze 32:30

“There also are the [fn]chiefs of the north, all of them, and all the Sidonians, who in spite of the terror resulting from their might, in shame went down with the slain. So they lay down uncircumcised with those killed by the sword and bore their disgrace with those who go down to the pit.

Eze 32:31

“These Pharaoh will see, and he will find consolation regarding all his hordes killed by the sword, Pharaoh and all his army,” declares the Lord GOD.

Eze 32:32“Though I inflicted the terror of him on the land of the living, yet he will be laid to rest among the uncircumcised along with those killed by the sword, Pharaoh and all his hordes,” declares the Lord GOD.
NASB20 Footnotes
Or were like
Lit fouled by stamping
Heb YHWH, usually rendered LORD, and so throughout the ch
Lit faces of the field
Lit dwell
Lit from
Lit come upon you
Or The sword is given
Lit his
Lit him
Lit gave, and so throughout the ch
Lit given
As in ancient versions; MT he was
Lit are around him
Or mighty ones
Or mighty ones
Or leaders
Lit in
Or leaders
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