Ezekiel:32

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* In the twelfth year , in the twelfth month , on the first of the month , the word of Jehovah came to me : * »Son of man , take up a cry of sorrow and grief over Pharaoh king of Egypt . Say to him : ‘You compared yourself to a young lion of the nations . »‘You are really like the monster in the seas . You burst forth in your rivers and muddied the waters with your feet and fouled their rivers .’ * »The Lord Jehovah says : ‘Now I will spread my net over you with a company of many peoples . They will lift you up in my net . * »‘I will leave you on the land . I will cast you on the open field . I will cause all the birds of the heavens to dwell on you . And I will satisfy the beasts of the entire earth with you . * »‘I will lay your flesh on the mountains . I will fill the valleys with your refuse . * »‘I will also make the land drink the discharge of your blood as far away as the mountains . The ravines will be full of you .’ * »‘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 I will set darkness on your land ,’ proclaims the Lord Jehovah . * »‘I will also trouble the hearts of many peoples when I bring your destruction among the nations , into lands you have not known . * »‘I will make many peoples astonished at you . Their kings will be dreadfully afraid of you when I brandish my sword before them . They will tremble every moment , every man for his own life , on the day of your fall .’ * »The Lord Jehovah says : ‘You will face the sword of the king of Babylon . * »‘I will cut down your people with the swords of warriors . All of them will be the most ruthless warriors among the nations . They will shatter the pride of Egypt and destroy its many people . * »‘I will also destroy all the animals beside its many water sources . The feet of humans and the hoofs of animals will not stir up the water anymore .’ * »‘Then I will make its water clear and make its streams flow like oil ,’ declares the Lord Jehovah . * »‘I will turn Egypt into a wasteland . I will take everything in the land , and I will kill all the people who live there . Then they will know that I am Jehovah . * »‘This is a funeral song . The people from the nations will sing this song . They will sing it as they mourn for Egypt and its many people , declares the Lord Jehovah .« * On the fifteenth day of the month in the twelfth year , Jehovah spoke his word to me . He said : * »Son of man , cry for the many people of Egypt . Bring them down along with the other mighty nations . Send them down below the earth to be with those who have gone down to the pit . * »‘Tell them : ‘Are you more beautiful than anyone else ? Go down and join the godless people . * »‘The Egyptians will lie among those who were killed in battle . A sword has been drawn . Drag Egypt and its many people away . * »‘The mightiest warriors will say to Pharaoh from the grave : You and your defenders have come down . You now lie with the godless people who were killed in battle . * »‘Assyria is there with its whole army . The graves of its soldiers are all around it . All of its soldiers are dead . They have been killed in battle . * »‘Their graves are in the deepest parts of the pit . Assyria 's army lies around its grave . All of its soldiers are dead . They have been killed in battle . They once terrified people in the land of the living . * »‘Elam is there with all its soldiers . The graves of its soldiers are all around it . All of its soldiers are dead . They have been killed in battle . They went down below the earth as godless people . They once terrified people in the land of the living . Now they suffer disgrace with those who have gone down to the pit . * »‘A bed has been made for Elam among the dead . The graves of its soldiers are all around it . The soldiers were godless people . They were killed in battle because they terrified others in the land of the living . They suffer disgrace with those who have gone down to the pit . They lie among the dead . * »‘Meshech and Tubal are there with all their soldiers . The graves of their soldiers are all around them . Their soldiers were all godless people . They were killed in battle because they terrified others in the land of the living . * »‘They do not lie with the godless warriors who died and went down to the grave with their weapons of war . Their swords were placed under their heads . Their iniquity rested on their bones because they terrified others in the land of the living . * You Egyptians will be crushed with the godless people . You will lie with those who were killed in battle . * »‘Edom is there with its kings and its princes . They used to be powerful , but now they lie with those who were killed in battle . They lie there with the godless people and with those who have gone down to the pit . * »‘All the rulers from the north and all the people from Sidon are there . They also went down with the dead . They are disgraced because they terrified people with their power . They were godless people . Now they lie with those who were killed in battle . They suffer disgrace with those who went down to the pit . * »‘Pharaoh and his army will see these things and be comforted over all the soldiers who have been killed in battle ,’ proclaims the Lord Jehovah . * »‘I terrified people in the land of the living . Pharaoh and all his soldiers will be laid among the godless people who were killed in battle ,’ proclaims the Lord Jehovah .«

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