Ezekiel 32 - New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Grief over Pharaoh and Egypt

32 In the ^(A)twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ² “Son of man, take up a ^(B)song of mourning over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him,

‘You ^[a]compared yourself to a young ^(C)lion of the nations,
Yet you are like the ^(D)monster in the seas;
And you ^(E)burst forth in your rivers
And muddied the waters with your feet
And ^[b]fouled their rivers.’”

³ This is what the Lord ^[c]God says:

“Now I will ^(F)spread My net over you
With a contingent of many peoples,
And they will lift you up in My net.
⁴ I will leave you on the land;
I will hurl you on the ^[d]open field.
And I will cause all the ^(G)birds of the sky to ^[e]nest on you,
And I will satisfy the animals of the whole earth ^[f]with you.
⁵ I will lay your flesh ^(H)on the mountains
And fill the valleys with your refuse.
⁶ I will also make the land drink the discharge of your ^(I)blood
As far as the mountains,
And the ravines will be full of you.
⁷ And when I ^(J)extinguish you,
I will ^(K)cover the heavens and darken their ^(L)stars;
I will cover the ^(M)sun with a cloud
And the moon will not give its light.
⁸ All the shining ^(N)lights in the heavens
I will darken over you
And will set darkness on your land,”
Declares the Lord God.

⁹ “I will also ^(O)trouble the hearts of many peoples when I ^(P)bring your destruction among the nations, into lands which you have not known. ¹⁰ And I will make many peoples ^(Q)appalled at you, and their kings will be horribly afraid of you when I brandish My sword before them; and ^(R)they will tremble again and again, every person for his own life, on the day of your fall.”

¹¹ For ^(S)the Lord God says ^(T)this: “The sword of the king of Babylon will ^[g]attack you. ¹² By the swords of the warriors I will make your multitude fall; all of them are ^(U)tyrants of the nations,

And they will ^(V)devastate the pride of Egypt,
And all its multitude will be destroyed.
¹³ I will also eliminate all its cattle from beside many waters;
And ^(W)a human foot will not muddy them anymore,
And the hoofs of animals will not muddy them.
¹⁴ Then I will make their waters settle,
And make their rivers run like oil,”
Declares the Lord God.
¹⁵ “When I make the land of Egypt a ^(X)desolation,
And the land is destitute of that which filled it,
When I strike all those who live in it,
Then they shall ^(Y)know that I am the Lord.

¹⁶ This is a ^(Z)song of mourning, and they shall sing it. The daughters of the nations shall sing it. Over Egypt and over all her hordes they shall sing it,” declares the Lord God.

¹⁷ In the ^(AA)twelfth year, on the ^(AB)fifteenth of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ¹⁸ “Son of man, ^(AC)lament for the hordes of Egypt and ^(AD)bring it down, her and the daughters of the mighty nations, to the ^(AE)netherworld, with those who go down to the pit;

¹⁹ ‘Whom do you surpass in beauty?
Go down and make your bed with the ^(AF)uncircumcised.’

²⁰ They shall fall in the midst of those who are killed by the sword. ^[h]She is turned over to the sword; they have ^(AG)dragged her and all her hordes away. ²¹ The ^(AH)strong among the mighty ones shall speak of him and his helpers from the midst of Sheol: ‘They have gone down, they lie still, the uncircumcised, killed by the sword.’

²² “^(AI)Assyria is there and all her company; ^[i]her graves are all around ^[j]her. All of them killed, fallen by the sword, ²³ whose ^(AJ)graves are set in the remotest parts of the pit, and her company is all around her grave. All of them killed, fallen by the sword, who ^[k]spread terror in the land of the living.

²⁴ “^(AK)Elam is there and all her hordes around her grave; all of them killed, fallen by the sword, who went down uncircumcised to the ^(AL)lower parts of the earth, who inflicted their terror on the ^(AM)land of the living, and ^(AN)bore their disgrace with those who go down to the pit. ²⁵ They have made a ^(AO)bed for her among the slain with all her hordes. Her graves are around it, they are all uncircumcised, killed by the sword (although their terror was ^[l]inflicted on the land of the living), and they bore their disgrace with those who go down to the pit; ^[m]they were put in the midst of the slain.

²⁶ “^(AP)Meshech, ^(AQ)Tubal, and all their hordes are there; their graves ^[n]surround them. All of them were killed by the sword ^(AR)uncircumcised, though they inflicted their terror on the land of the living. ^{27 (AS)}Nor do they lie beside the fallen ^[o](AT)heroes of the uncircumcised, who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war and whose swords were placed under their heads; but the punishment for their ^(AU)wrongdoing rested on their bones, though the terror of these ^[p]heroes was once in the land of the living. ²⁸ But in the midst of the uncircumcised you will be broken and lie with those killed by the sword.

²⁹ “There also is ^(AV)Edom, its kings and all its ^[q]princes, who ^[r]despite all their might are laid with those killed by the sword; they will lie with the uncircumcised and with those who go down to the pit.

³⁰ “There also are the ^[s]chiefs of the ^(AW)north, all of them, and all the ^(AX)Sidonians, who in spite of the terror resulting from their might, in shame went down with the slain. So they lay down uncircumcised with those killed by the sword and bore their disgrace with those who go down to the pit.

³¹ “These Pharaoh will see, and he will ^(AY)find consolation regarding all his hordes killed by the sword, Pharaoh and all his army,” declares the Lord God. ³² “Though I inflicted the terror of him on the land of the living, yet he will be laid to rest among the uncircumcised along with those killed by the sword, Pharaoh and all his hordes,” declares the Lord God.

Footnotes

1. Ezekiel 32:2 Or were like
2. Ezekiel 32:2 Lit fouled by stamping
3. Ezekiel 32:3 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord, and so throughout the ch
4. Ezekiel 32:4 Lit faces of the field
5. Ezekiel 32:4 Lit dwell
6. Ezekiel 32:4 Lit from
7. Ezekiel 32:11 Lit come upon you
8. Ezekiel 32:20 Or The sword is given
9. Ezekiel 32:22 Lit his
10. Ezekiel 32:22 Lit him
11. Ezekiel 32:23 Lit gave, and so throughout the ch
12. Ezekiel 32:25 Lit given
13. Ezekiel 32:25 As in ancient versions; MT he was
14. Ezekiel 32:26 Lit are around him
15. Ezekiel 32:27 Or mighty ones
16. Ezekiel 32:27 Or mighty ones
17. Ezekiel 32:29 Or leaders
18. Ezekiel 32:29 Lit in
19. Ezekiel 32:30 Or leaders

Cross references

1. Ezekiel 32:1 : Ezek 30:20; 31:1; 32:17; 33:21
2. Ezekiel 32:2 : Ezek 19:1; 27:2; 28:12; 32:16
3. Ezekiel 32:2 : Jer 4:7; Ezek 19:2-6; Nah 2:11-13
4. Ezekiel 32:2 : Is 27:1; Ezek 29:3
5. Ezekiel 32:2 : Jer 46:7, 8
6. Ezekiel 32:3 : Ezek 12:13
7. Ezekiel 32:4 : Is 18:6
8. Ezekiel 32:5 : Ezek 31:12
9. Ezekiel 32:6 : Ex 7:17; Is 34:3, 7; Ezek 35:6; Rev 14:20
10. Ezekiel 32:7 : Job 18:5, 6; Prov 13:9
11. Ezekiel 32:7 : Ex 10:21-23; Is 34:4; Ezek 30:3, 18; 34:12
12. Ezekiel 32:7 : Is 13:10
13. Ezekiel 32:7 : Joel 2:2, 31; 3:15; Amos 8:9; Matt 24:29; Mark 13:24f; Luke 21:25; Rev 6:12; 8:12
14. Ezekiel 32:8 : Gen 1:14
15. Ezekiel 32:9 : Ezek 27:29-32; 28:19; Rev 18:10-15
16. Ezekiel 32:9 : Ex 15:14-16
17. Ezekiel 32:10 : Ezek 27:35
18. Ezekiel 32:10 : Ezek 26:16
19. Ezekiel 32:11 : Jer 46:26
20. Ezekiel 32:11 : Jer 46:26
21. Ezekiel 32:12 : Ezek 28:7
22. Ezekiel 32:12 : Ezek 28:19
23. Ezekiel 32:13 : Ezek 29:11
24. Ezekiel 32:15 : Ps 107:33, 34; Ezek 29:12, 19, 20
25. Ezekiel 32:15 : Ex 7:5; 14:4, 18; Ps 9:16; 83:17, 18; Ezek 6:7; 30:19, 26
26. Ezekiel 32:16 : 2 Sam 1:17; 3:33, 34; 2 Chr 35:25; Jer 9:17; Ezek 26:17; 32:2
27. Ezekiel 32:17 : Ezek 31:1; 32:1; 33:21
28. Ezekiel 32:17 : Ezek 31:1; 32:1; 33:21
29. Ezekiel 32:18 : Is 16:9; Ezek 21:6; 32:2, 16; Mic 1:8
30. Ezekiel 32:18 : Jer 1:10; Ezek 43:3; Hos 6:5
31. Ezekiel 32:18 : Ezek 31:14, 16, 18; 32:24
32. Ezekiel 32:19 : Jer 9:25, 26; Ezek 31:18; 32:21, 24, 29, 30
33. Ezekiel 32:20 : Ps 28:3
34. Ezekiel 32:21 : Is 14:9-12; Ezek 32:27
35. Ezekiel 32:22 : Ezek 27:23; 31:3, 16
36. Ezekiel 32:23 : Is 14:15
37. Ezekiel 32:24 : Gen 10:22; 14:1; Is 11:11; Jer 25:25; 49:34-39
38. Ezekiel 32:24 : Ezek 26:20; 31:14, 18; 32:18
39. Ezekiel 32:24 : Job 28:13; Ps 27:13; 52:5; 142:5; Is 38:11; Jer 11:19
40. Ezekiel 32:24 : Ezek 16:52, 54; 32:25, 30
41. Ezekiel 32:25 : Ps 139:8
42. Ezekiel 32:26 : Gen 10:2; Ezek 27:13; 38:2, 3; 39:1
43. Ezekiel 32:26 : Gen 10:2; Is 66:19; Ezek 27:13; 38:2, 3; 39:1
44. Ezekiel 32:26 : Ezek 32:19
45. Ezekiel 32:27 : Is 14:18, 19
46. Ezekiel 32:27 : Job 3:13-15; Ezek 32:21
47. Ezekiel 32:27 : Job 20:11; Ps 109:18
48. Ezekiel 32:29 : Is 34:5-15; Jer 49:7-22; Ezek 25:13; 35:9, 15
49. Ezekiel 32:30 : Jer 1:15; 25:26; Ezek 38:6, 15; 39:2
50. Ezekiel 32:30 : Jer 25:22; Ezek 28:21-23
51. Ezekiel 32:31 : Ezek 14:22; 31:16