OET-RV EZE Chapter 32

32 At the beginning of March in the twelfth year since King Yoyakin (Jehoiachin) had been taken captive,[fn] Yahweh gave me a message: 2 “Humanity’s child, sing a loud mourning song about the Egyptian King Far-oh (Pharaoh) and tell him,

‘You’re like a young lion among the nations,

but you’re like the sea monster in the oceans—

you churn up the water—

you stir up the waters with your feet and muddy their waters.

3 The Lord Yahweh says this:

I’ll spread my net over you in the assembly of many peoples,

and they’ll haul you up in my net.

4 I’ll abandon you in the land.

I’ll throw you into the countryside

and cause every kind of bird to settle on you

and every kind of animal will gorge themselves on you.

5 I’ll dump your flesh on the hills,

and fill the valleys with your corpse.

6 Then I’ll drench your land with your blood across to the hills,

and the ravines will be filled with your blood.

7 Then when I eliminate you, I’ll cover the heavens and darken their stars.

I’ll cover the sun with clouds, and the moon won’t shine its light.[ref]

8 I’ll darken all the shining lights in the skies over you,

and I’ll put darkness over your land. That is the master Yahweh’s declaration.

9 I’ll disturb the heart of many peoples in lands that you don’t know about,

when I bring about your destruction among the nations—among lands that you haven’t known.

10 I’ll shock many peoples with what I’ll do to you.

Their kings will shudder in horror concerning you when I swing my sword towards them.

On the day of your downfall they’ll be trembling continuously because of you.

11 Yes, the master Yahweh says this to you Egypt:

The Babylonian king’s sword will come against you.

12 I’ll cause large numbers of you to fall by warriors’ swords—each warrior a terror of nations.

Those warriors will devastate the pride of Egypt and destroy all its many people.

13 I’ll destroy all the livestock from beside the plentiful waters.

No human foot will stir the waters up again,

nor will cattle hooves disturb them.

14 Then I’ll calm their waters and make their rivers run like oil.

That is the master Yahweh’s declaration.

15 When I make Egypt’s territory into an abandoned place,

when the land is stripped of all its produce,

when I attack all her inhabitants they’ll know that I am Yahweh.

16 There’ll be a funeral song—the daughters of the nations will sing mournful songs about her.

They’ll sing sadly about Egypt—over all her multitudes they’ll sing dirges.

That is the master Yahweh’s declaration.’ ”

17 In the middle of that same month,[fn] Yahweh gave me a message: 18 “Humanity’s child, weep for the numerous Egyptians and bring them down to the lowest parts of the earth. Bring Egypt and the daughters of majestic nations down along with those who have already gone down to the pit. 19 Ask them: Egypt, are you really more beautiful than anyone else? Go down and lie down with the uncircumcised.

20 They’ll fall among those who were killed by the sword. The sword has been drawn. Egypt has been given over to the sword—their enemies will seize her and her multitudes. 21 The strongest of the warriors in the place of the dead will declare about Egypt and her allies, ‘They have come down here. They will lie with the uncircumcised—with those who were killed by the sword.’

22 Assyria is there with all her people with her graves all around her—all of them were killed by the sword. 23 Those whose graves are set in the recesses of the pit[ref] are there, along with all her people. Her graves surround all of those who were killed by the sword—those who brought terror onto the land of the living.

24 Eylam is there with all her multitudes with her graves all around her—all of them were killed. Those who fell by the sword, who have gone down uncircumcised to the lowest parts of the earth, who brought their terrors onto the land of the living and who carry their own shame, together with the ones going down to the pit. 25 They prepared a bed for Eylam and all her multitudes among those who were slain—her graves surround her. All of them are uncircumcised, pierced by the sword, because they had brought their terrors onto the land of the living. So they carry their own shame, together with the ones going down to the pit among all those who have been killed, those who are going down to the pit. Eylam is among all those who were killed.

26 Meshek, Tuval, and all their multitudes are there with their graves all around them. All of them are uncircumcised, killed by the sword, because they had brought their terrors onto the land of the living. 27 They don’t lie with the fallen warriors of the uncircumcised who’ve gone down to the place of the dead with all their weapons of war, and with their swords placed under their heads and their iniquities over their bones, because they were the terror of warriors in the land of the living.

28 So you, Egypt,c will be broken amongst the uncircumcised. You’ll lie alongside those who were pierced by the sword.

29 Edom is also there with her kings and all her leaders. Despite their strength, they’ve been placed with those killed by the sword. They lie there along with the uncircumcised—with those who’ve gone down to the pit.

30 All the northern leaders are there, along with all the Sidonians who went down with the ones who had been pierced. They were powerful and made others afraid, but now they’re there in shame—uncircumcised along with those who were pierced by the sword. They carry their own shame, together with the ones going down to the pit.

31 Far-oh (Pharaoh) will look and be comforted about all his multitudes who were pierced by the sword—Far-oh and all his army. That is the master Yahweh’s declaration.

32 Yes, I put him there as my agent to terrify those in the land of the living, but Far-oh and all his multitudes will be laid down among the uncircumcised—among those pierced by the sword. That is the master Yahweh’s declaration.”