Ezekiel 32 - New King James Version (NKJV)

Lamentation for Pharaoh and Egypt

32 And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the ^(A)twelfth month, on the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ² “Son of man, ^(B)take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him:

^(C)‘You are like a young lion among the nations,
And ^(D)you are like a monster in the seas,
^(E)Bursting forth in your rivers,
Troubling the waters with your feet,
And ^(F)fouling their rivers.

³ ‘Thus says the Lord God:

“I will therefore ^(G)spread My net over you with a company of many people,
And they will draw you up in My net.
⁴ Then ^(H)I will leave you on the land;
I will cast you out on the open fields,
^(I)And cause to ^[a]settle on you all the birds of the heavens.
And with you I will fill the beasts of the whole earth.
⁵ I will lay your flesh ^(J)on the mountains,
And fill the valleys with your carcass.

⁶ “I will also water the land with the flow of your blood,
Even to the mountains;
And the riverbeds will be full of you.
⁷ When I put out your light,
^(K)I will cover the heavens, and make its stars dark;
I will cover the sun with a cloud,
And the moon shall not give her light.
⁸ All the ^[b]bright lights of the heavens I will make dark over you,
And bring darkness upon your land,”
Says the Lord God.

⁹ ‘I will also trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries which you have not known. ¹⁰ Yes, I will make many peoples astonished at you, and their kings shall be horribly afraid of you when I brandish My sword before them; and ^(L)they shall tremble every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of your fall.

^{11 (M)}‘For thus says the Lord God: “The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon you. ¹² By the swords of the mighty warriors, all of them ^(N)the most terrible of the nations, I will cause your multitude to fall.

^(O)“They shall plunder the pomp of Egypt,
And all its multitude shall be destroyed.
¹³ Also I will destroy all its animals
From beside its great waters;
^(P)The foot of man shall muddy them no more,
Nor shall the hooves of animals muddy them.
¹⁴ Then I will make their waters ^[c]clear,
And make their rivers run like oil,”
Says the Lord God.

¹⁵ “When I make the land of Egypt desolate,
And the country is destitute of all that once filled it,
When I strike all who dwell in it,
^(Q)Then they shall know that I am the Lord.

¹⁶ “This is the ^(R)lamentation
With which they shall lament her;
The daughters of the nations shall lament her;
They shall lament for her, for Egypt,
And for all her multitude,”
Says the Lord God.’ ”

Egypt and Others Consigned to the Pit

¹⁷ It came to pass also in the twelfth year, on the fifteenth day of the month, ^(S)that the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

¹⁸ “Son of man, wail over the multitude of Egypt,
And ^(T)cast them down to the depths of the earth,
Her and the daughters of the famous nations,
With those who go down to the Pit:
¹⁹ ‘Whom ^(U)do you surpass in beauty?
^(V)Go down, be placed with the uncircumcised.’

²⁰ “They shall fall in the midst of those slain by the sword;
She is delivered to the sword,
^(W)Drawing her and all her multitudes.
^{21 (X)}The strong among the mighty
Shall speak to him out of the midst of hell
With those who help him:
‘They have ^(Y)gone down,
They lie with the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.’

²² “Assyria^(Z) is there, and all her company,
With their graves all around her,
All of them slain, fallen by the sword.
^{23 (AA)}Her graves are set in the recesses of the Pit,
And her company is all around her grave,
All of them slain, fallen by the sword,
Who ^(AB)caused terror in the land of the living.

²⁴ “There is ^(AC)Elam and all her multitude,
All around her grave,
All of them slain, fallen by the sword,
Who have ^(AD)gone down uncircumcised to the lower parts of the earth,
^(AE)Who caused their terror in the land of the living;
Now they bear their shame with those who go down to the Pit.
²⁵ They have set her ^(AF)bed in the midst of the slain,
With all her multitude,
With her graves all around it,
All of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword;
Though their terror was caused
In the land of the living,
Yet they bear their shame
With those who go down to the Pit;
It was put in the midst of the slain.

²⁶ “There are ^(AG)Meshech and Tubal and all their multitudes,
With all their graves around it,
All of them ^(AH)uncircumcised, slain by the sword,
Though they caused their terror in the land of the living.
^{27 (AI)}They do not lie with the mighty
Who are fallen of the uncircumcised,
Who have gone down to hell with their weapons of war;
They have laid their swords under their heads,
But their iniquities will be on their bones,
Because of the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.
²⁸ Yes, you shall be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised,
And lie with those slain by the sword.

²⁹ “There is ^(AJ)Edom,
Her kings and all her princes,
Who despite their might
Are laid beside those slain by the sword;
They shall lie with the uncircumcised,
And with those who go down to the Pit.
^{30 (AK)}There are the princes of the north,
All of them, and all the ^(AL)Sidonians,
Who have gone down with the slain
In shame at the terror which they caused by their might;
They lie uncircumcised with those slain by the sword,
And bear their shame with those who go down to the Pit.

³¹ “Pharaoh will see them
And be ^(AM)comforted over all his multitude,
Pharaoh and all his army,
Slain by the sword,”
Says the Lord God.

³² “For I have caused My terror in the land of the living;
And he shall be placed in the midst of the uncircumcised
With those slain by the sword,
Pharaoh and all his multitude,”
Says the Lord God.

Footnotes

1. Ezekiel 32:4 Lit. sit or dwell
2. Ezekiel 32:8 Or shining
3. Ezekiel 32:14 Lit. sink; settle, grow clear

Cross references

1. Ezekiel 32:1 : Ezek. 31:1; 33:21
2. Ezekiel 32:2 : Ezek. 27:2
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 32:2 : Ezek. 34:18
7. Ezekiel 32:3 : Ezek. 12:13; 17:20
8. Ezekiel 32:4 : Ezek. 29:5
9. Ezekiel 32:4 : Is. 18:6; Ezek. 31:13
10. Ezekiel 32:5 : Ezek. 31:12
11. Ezekiel 32:7 : Is. 13:10; Joel 2:31; 3:15; Amos 8:9; Matt. 24:29; Mark 13:24; Luke 21:25; Rev. 6:12, 13; 8:12
12. Ezekiel 32:10 : Ezek. 26:16
13. Ezekiel 32:11 : Jer. 46:26; Ezek. 30:4
14. Ezekiel 32:12 : Ezek. 28:7; 30:11; 31:12
15. Ezekiel 32:12 : Ezek. 29:19
16. Ezekiel 32:13 : Ezek. 29:11
17. Ezekiel 32:15 : Ex. 7:5; 14:4, 18; Ps. 9:16; Ezek. 6:7
18. Ezekiel 32:16 : 2 Sam. 1:17; 2 Chr. 35:25; Jer. 9:17; Ezek. 26:17
19. Ezekiel 32:17 : Ezek. 32:1; 33:21
20. Ezekiel 32:18 : Ezek. 26:20; 31:14
21. Ezekiel 32:19 : Jer. 9:25, 26; Ezek. 31:2, 18
22. Ezekiel 32:19 : Ezek. 28:10
23. Ezekiel 32:20 : Ps. 28:3
24. Ezekiel 32:21 : Is. 1:31; 14:9, 10; Ezek. 32:27
25. Ezekiel 32:21 : Ezek. 32:19, 25
26. Ezekiel 32:22 : Ezek. 31:3, 16
27. Ezekiel 32:23 : Is. 14:15
28. Ezekiel 32:23 : Ezek. 32:24–27, 32
29. Ezekiel 32:24 : Gen. 10:22; 14:1; Is. 11:11; Jer. 25:25; 49:34–39
30. Ezekiel 32:24 : Ezek. 32:21
31. Ezekiel 32:24 : Ezek. 32:23
32. Ezekiel 32:25 : Ps. 139:8
33. Ezekiel 32:26 : Gen. 10:2; Ezek. 27:13; 38:2, 3; 39:1
34. Ezekiel 32:26 : Ezek. 32:19
35. Ezekiel 32:27 : Is. 14:18, 19
36. Ezekiel 32:29 : Is. 9:5, 6; 34:5, 6; Jer. 49:7–22; Ezek. 25:12–14
37. Ezekiel 32:30 : Jer. 1:15; 25:26; Ezek. 38:6, 15; 39:2
38. Ezekiel 32:30 : Jer. 25:22; Ezek. 28:21–23
39. Ezekiel 32:31 : Ezek. 14:22; 31:16