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.”