The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Ezekiel 32
1 In the twelfth year, in the twelfth
month, in the first day of the month,
“Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
2 ‘Son of man, take up a lamentation over
Pharaoh king of Egypt, and tell him,
“You were likened to a young lion of the
nations; yet you are as a monster in the seas.
You broke out with your rivers,
and troubled the waters with your
feet, and fouled their rivers.”
3 The Lord Yahweh says:
“I will spread out my net on you with a
company of many peoples.
They will bring you up in my net.
4 I will leave you on the land.
I will cast you out on the open field,
and will cause all the birds of the sky to
settle on you. I will satisfy the animals
of the whole earth with you.
5 I will lay your flesh on the mountains,
and fill the valleys with your height.
6 I will also water the land in which you
swim with your blood, even to the mountains.
The watercourses will be full of you.
7 When I extinguish you, I will cover the
heavens and make its stars dark.
I will cover the sun with a cloud,
and the moon won’t give its light.
8 I will make all the bright lights of the sky
dark over you, and set darkness on your land,” says
the Lord Yahweh.
9 “I will also trouble the hearts of many
peoples, when I bring your destruction among
the nations, into the countries which you have not
known.
10 Yes, I will make many peoples amazed at
you, and their kings will be horribly afraid
for you, when I brandish my sword before them.
They will tremble at every moment,
every man for his own life,
in the day of your fall.”
11 For the Lord Yahweh says:
“The sword of the king of Babylon will
come on you.
12 I will cause your multitude to fall by the
swords of the mighty. They are allthe ruthless
of the nations. They will bring the pride
of Egypt to nothing, and all its multitude will be destroyed.
13 I will destroy also all its animals from
beside many waters. The foot of man won’t trouble them
any more, nor will the hoofs of animals trouble
them.
14 Then I will make their waters clear,
and cause their rivers to run like oil,”
says the Lord Yahweh.
15 “When I make the land of Egypt desolate
and waste, a land destitute of that of which it was
full, when I strike all those who dwell therein,
then they will know that I am Yahweh.
16 This is the lamentation with which
they will lament. The daughters of the
nations will lament with this. They will
lament with it over Egypt, and over all her
multitude,” says the Lord Yahweh.
17 Also in the twelfth year, in the
fifteenth day of the month, Yahweh’s word
came to me, saying,
18 “Son of man, wail for the multitude of
Egypt, and cast them down, even her and
the daughters ofthe famous nations, to the
lower parts ofthe earth, with those who go
down into the pit.
19 Whom do you pass in beauty? Go
down, and be laid with the uncircumcised.
20 They will fall among those who are
slain by the sword. She is delivered to
the sword. Draw her away with all her
multitudes.
21 The strong among the mighty will
speak to him out of the middle of Sheol†
with those who help him. They have gone
down. The uncircumcised lie still, slain by
the sword.
22 “Asshur is there with all her company.
Her graves are all around her. All of them
are slain, fallen by the sword,
23 whose graves are set in the uttermost
parts ofthe pit, and her company is around
her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the
sword, who caused terror in the land ofthe
living.
24 “There is Elam and all her multitude
around her grave; all of them slain, fallen
by the sword, who have gone down uncircumcised
into the lower parts of the earth,
who caused their terror in the land of the
living, and have borne their shame with
those who go down to the pit.
25 They have made Elamabedamong the
slain with all her multitude. Her graves
are around her, all of them uncircumcised,
slain by the sword; for their terror was
caused in the land of the living, and they
have borne their shame with those who go
down to the pit. He is put among those who
are slain.
26 “There is Meshech, Tubal, and all their
multitude. Their graves are around them,
all of them uncircumcised, slain by the
sword; for they caused their terror in the
land of the living.
27 They will not lie with the mighty who
are fallen of the uncircumcised, who have
gone down to Sheol with their weapons of
war andhave laid their swordsunder their
heads. Their iniquities are on their bones;
for they were the terror of the mighty in
the land of the living.
28 “But you will be broken among the
uncircumcised, and will lie with those who
are slain by the sword.
29 “There is Edom, her kings, and all her
princes, who in their might are laid with
those who are slainby the sword. They will
lie with the uncircumcised, and with those
who go down to the pit.
30 “There are the princes of the north, all
of them, and all the Sidonians, who have
gone down with the slain. They are put to
shame in the terror which they caused by
their might. They lie uncircumcised with
those who are slain by the sword, and bear
their shame with those who go down to the
pit.
31 “Pharaoh will see them and will be
comforted over all his multitude, even
Pharaoh and all his army, slain by the
sword,” says the Lord Yahweh.
32 “For I have put his terror in the land
of the living. He will be laid among the
uncircumcised, with those who are slain
by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his
multitude,” says the Lord Yahweh.