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href="../ezekiel/31.htm" title="Ezekiel 31">◄</a> Ezekiel 32 <a href="../ezekiel/33.htm" title="Ezekiel 33">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/ezekiel/32.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">A Lament over Pharaoh and Egypt</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/32-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> came to me: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/32-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Son of man, raise a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him:</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="ln-group">“You consider yourself a lion of the nations,</span><br /><span class="indent">but you are like a dragon in the seas;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">you burst forth in your rivers,</span><br /><span class="indent">trouble the waters with your feet,</span><br /><span class="indent">and foul their rivers.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/32-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Thus says the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>:</span><br /><span class="indent">I will throw my net over you</span><br /><span class="indent">with a host of many peoples,</span><br /><span class="indent">and they will haul you up in my dragnet.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/32-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">And I will cast you on the ground;</span><br /><span class="indent">on the open field I will fling you,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">and will cause all the birds of the heavens to settle on you,</span><br /><span class="indent">and I will gorge the beasts of the whole earth with you.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/32-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I will strew your flesh upon the mountains</span><br /><span class="indent">and fill the valleys with your carcass.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew your height">a</a></sup></span></span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/32-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I will drench the land even to the mountains</span><br /><span class="indent">with your flowing blood,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the ravines will be full of you.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/32-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">When I blot you out, I will cover the heavens</span><br /><span class="indent">and make their stars dark;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">I will cover the sun with a cloud,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the moon shall not give its light.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/32-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">All the bright lights of heaven</span><br /><span class="indent">will I make dark over you,</span><br /><span class="indent">and put darkness on your land,</span><br /><begin-line class="declares"/>declares the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/32-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“I will trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries that you have not known. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/32-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>I will make many peoples appalled at you, and the hair of their kings shall bristle with horror because of you, when I brandish my sword before them. They shall tremble every moment, every one for his own life, on the day of your downfall.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/32-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“For thus says the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>: The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/32-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>I will cause your multitude to fall by the swords of mighty ones, all of them most ruthless of nations.</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="ln-group">“They shall bring to ruin the pride of Egypt,</span><br /><span class="indent">and all its multitude<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or wealth">b</a></sup></span> shall perish.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/32-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I will destroy all its beasts</span><br /><span class="indent">from beside many waters;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">and no foot of man shall trouble them anymore,</span><br /><span class="indent">nor shall the hoofs of beasts trouble them.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/32-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Then I will make their waters clear,</span><br /><span class="indent">and cause their rivers to run like oil,</span><br /><begin-line class="declares"/>declares the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/32-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">When I make the land of Egypt desolate,</span><br /><span class="indent">and when the land is desolate of all that fills it,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">when I strike down all who dwell in it,</span><br /><span class="indent">then they will know that I am the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</span></p> <p class="same-paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/32-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>This is a lamentation that shall be chanted; the daughters of the nations shall chant it; over Egypt, and over all her multitude, shall they chant it, declares the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>.”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/32-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew lacks in the twelfth month">c</a></sup></span> on the fifteenth day of the month, the word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> came to me: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/32-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>“Son of man, wail over the multitude of Egypt, and send them down, her and the daughters of majestic nations, to the world below, to those who have gone down to the pit:</p> <span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/32-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">‘Whom do you surpass in beauty?</span><br /><span class="indent">Go down and be laid to rest with the uncircumcised.’</span></p> <p class="same-paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/32-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>They shall fall amid those who are slain by the sword. Egypt<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew She">d</a></sup></span> is delivered to the sword; drag her away, and all her multitudes. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/32-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>The mighty chiefs shall speak of them, with their helpers, out of the midst of Sheol: ‘They have come down, they lie still, the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.’</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/32-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>“Assyria is there, and all her company, its graves all around it, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/32-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit; and her company is all around her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who spread terror in the land of the living.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/32-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>“Elam is there, and all her multitude around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who went down uncircumcised into the world below, who spread their terror in the land of the living; and they bear their shame with those who go down to the pit. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/32-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>They have made her a bed among the slain with all her multitude, her graves all around it, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for terror of them was spread in the land of the living, and they bear their shame with those who go down to the pit; they are placed among the slain.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/32-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>“Meshech-Tubal is there, and all her multitude, her graves all around it, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for they spread their terror in the land of the living. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/32-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And they do not lie with the mighty, the fallen from among the uncircumcised, who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war, whose swords were laid under their heads, and whose iniquities are upon their bones; for the terror of the mighty men was in the land of the living. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/32-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>But as for you, you shall be broken and lie among the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/32-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>“Edom is there, her kings and all her princes, who for all their might are laid with those who are killed by the sword; they lie with the uncircumcised, with those who go down to the pit.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/32-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>“The princes of the north are there, all of them, and all the Sidonians, who have gone down in shame with the slain, for all the terror that 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.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/32-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>“When Pharaoh sees them, he will be comforted for all his multitude, Pharaoh and all his army, slain by the sword, declares the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/32-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>For I spread terror in the land of the living; and he shall be laid to rest among the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword, Pharaoh and all his multitude, declares the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>.”</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">5</span> Hebrew <i><span class="catch-word">your</span> height</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">12</span> Or <i>wealth</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">17</span> Hebrew lacks <i class="catch-word">in the twelfth month</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">20</span> Hebrew <i>She</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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