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.’ ”