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The Prophecy
of Ezechiel 32
And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth
month, in the first day of the month, that the word
of the Lord came to me, saying:
Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharao the king
of Egypt, and say to him: Thou art like the lion of
the nations, and the dragon that is in the sea: and
thou didst push with the horn in thy rivers, and didst
trouble the waters with thy feet, and didst trample
upon their streams.
Therefore, thus saith the Lord God: I will spread out
my net over thee with the multitude of many people,
and I will draw thee up in my net.
And I will throw thee out on the land, I will cast thee
away into the open field: and I will cause all the fowls
of the air to dwell upon thee, and I will fill the beasts
of all the earth with thee.
And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and will
fill thy hills with thy corruption,
And I will water the earth with thy stinking blood upon
the mountains, and the valleys shall be filled with
thee.
And I will cover the heavens, when thou shalt be put
out, and I will make the stars thereof dark: I will
cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give
her light.
I will make all the lights of heaven to mourn over thee:
and I will cause darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord
God, when thy wounded shall fall in the midst of the
land, saith the Lord God.
And I shall provoke to anger the heart of many people,
when I shall have brought in thy destruction among the
nations upon the lands, which thou knowest not.
And I will make many people to be amazed at thee, and
their kings shell be horribly afraid for thee, when
my sword shall begin to fly upon their faces: and they
shall be astonished on a sudden, every one for his own
life, in the day of their ruin.
For thus saith the Lord God: The sword of the king of
Babylon shall come upon thee,
By the swords of the mighty I will overthrow thy multitude:
all these nations are invincible: and they shall waste
the pride of Egypt, and the multitude thereof shall
be destroyed.
I will destroy also all the beasts thereof that were
beside the great waters: and the foot of man shall trouble
them no more, neither shall the hoof of beasts trouble
them.
Then will I make their waters clear, and cause their
rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord God:
When I shall have made the land of Egypt desolate: and
the land shall be destitute of her fulness, when I shall
have struck all the inhabitants thereof: and they shall
know that I am the Lord.
This is the lamentation, and they shall lament therewith:
the daughters of the nations shall lament therewith:
for Egypt, and for the multitude thereof they shall
lament therewith, saith the Lord God.
And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth
day of the month that the word of the Lord came to me,
saying:
Son of man, sing a mournful song for the multitude of
Egypt: and cast her down, both her, and the daughters
of the mighty nations to the lowest part of the earth,
with them that go down into the pit.
Whom dost thou excel in beauty? go down and sleep with
the uncircumcised.
They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain
with the sword : the sword is given, they have drawn
her down, and all her people.
The most mighty among the strong ones shall speak to
him from the midst of hell, they that went down with
his helpers, and slept uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
Assur is there, and all his multitude: their graves
are round about him, all of them slain, and that fell
by the sword.
Whose graves are set in the lowest parts of the pit:
and his multitude lay round about his grave: all of
them slain, and fallen by the sword, they that heretofore
spread terror in the land of the living.
There is Elam and all his multitude round about his
grave, all of them slain, and fallen by the sword; that
went down uncircumcised to the lowest parts of the earth:
that caused their terror in the land of the living,
and they have borne their shame with them that go down
into the pit.
In the midst of the slain they have set him a bed among
all his people: their graves are round about him: all
these are uncircumcised, and slain by the sword: for
they spread their terror in the land of the living,
and have borne their shame with them that descend into
the pit: they are laid in the midst of the slain.
There is Mosoch, and Thubal, and all their multitude:
their graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised
and slain, and fallen by the sword: though they spread
their terror in the land of the living.
And they shall not sleep with the brave, and with them
that fell uncircumcised, that went down to hell with
their weapons, and laid their swords under their heads,
and their iniquities were in their bones, because they
were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.
So thou also shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised,
and shalt sleep with them that are slain by the sword.
There is Edom, and her kings, and all her princes, who
with their army are joined with them that are slain
by the sword: and have slept with the uncircumcised,
and with them that go down into the pit.
There are all the princes of the north, and all the
hunters: who were brought down with the slain, fearing,
and con- founded in their strength: who slept uncircumcised
with them that are slain by the sword, and have borne
their shame with them that go down into the pit.
Pharao saw them, and he was comforted concerning all
his multitude, which was slain by the sword: Pharao,
and all his army, saith the Lord God:
Because I have spread my terror in the land of the living,
and he hath slept in the midst of the uncircumcised
with them that are slain by the sword: Pharao and all
his multitude, saith the Lord God. |
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