Ezekiel 32:1 - 32:16 - Legacy Standard Bible

Ezekiel 32:1 - 32:16

A Lament over Pharaoh and Egypt

And it happened in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me saying, 2 “Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him,

‘You liken 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 fouled their rivers.’”

3 Thus says Lord Yahweh,

“So I will spread My net over you

With an assembly of many peoples,

And they shall bring you up in My net.

I will abandon you on the land;

I will hurl you on the open field.

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

And I will satisfy the beasts of the whole earth with you.

I will put your flesh on the mountains

And fill the valleys with your refuse.

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.

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.

All the shining lights in the heavens

I will darken over you

And will give darkness on your land,”

Declares Lord Yahweh.

9 “I will also vex the hearts of many peoples when I bring your destruction among the nations, into lands which you have not known. 10 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 every moment, every man for his own life, on the day of your downfall.” 11 For thus says Lord Yahweh, “The sword of the king of Babylon will come upon you. 12 By the swords of the mighty ones I will cause your multitude to fall; all of them are ruthless ones of the nations,

And they will devastate the lofty pride of Egypt,

And all its multitude will be destroyed.

I will also make all its cattle perish from beside many waters;

And the foot of man will not muddy them anymore,

And the hoofs of beasts will not muddy them.

Then I will make their waters settle

And will cause their rivers to run like oil,”

Declares Lord Yahweh.

“When I make the land of Egypt a desolation,

And the land is desolate of its fullness,

When I strike all those who inhabit it,

Then they shall know that I am Yahweh.

16 This is a lamentation, and they shall lament over it. The daughters of the nations shall lament over it. Over Egypt and over all her multitude they shall lament over it,” declares Lord Yahweh.