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Ezekiel 32

Lament over Pharaoh and Egypt

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In the  atwelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first of the month, the word of the LORD came to me saying,

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"Son of man, take up a  alamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him, `You  1compared yourself to a young  blion of the nations, Yet you are like the  cmonster in the seas; And you  dburst forth in your rivers And muddied the waters with your feet And  2fouled their rivers.' "

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Thus says the Lord  1GOD, "Now I will  aspread My net over you With a company of many peoples, And they shall lift you up in My net.

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"I will leave you on the land; I will cast you on the  1open field. And I will cause all the  abirds of the heavens to dwell on you, And I will satisfy the beasts of the whole earth  2with you.

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"I will lay your flesh  aon the mountains And fill the valleys with your refuse.

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"I will also make the land drink the discharge of your  ablood As far as the mountains, And the ravines will be full of you.

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"And when I  aextinguish you, I will  bcover the heavens and darken their  cstars; I will cover the  dsun with a cloud And the moon will not give its light.

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"All the shining  alights in the heavens I will darken over you And will set darkness on your land," Declares the Lord GOD.

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"I will also  atrouble the hearts of many peoples when I  bbring your destruction among the nations, into lands which you have not known.

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"I will make many peoples  aappalled at you, and their kings will be horribly afraid of you when I brandish My sword before them; and  bthey will tremble every moment, every man for his own life, on the day of your fall."

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For  athus says the Lord GOD, "The sword of the king of Babylon will come upon you.

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"By the swords of the mighty ones I will cause your hordes to fall; all of them are  atyrants of the nations, And they will  bdevastate the pride of Egypt, And all its hordes will be destroyed.

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"I will also destroy all its cattle from beside many waters; And  athe foot of man will not muddy them anymore And the hoofs of beasts will not muddy them.

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"Then I will make their waters settle And will cause their rivers to run like oil," Declares the Lord GOD.

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"When I make the land of Egypt a  adesolation, And the land is destitute of that which filled it, When I smite all those who live in it, Then they shall  bknow that I am the LORD.

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"This is a  alamentation and they shall  1chant it. The daughters of the nations shall  1chant it. Over Egypt and over all her hordes they shall  1chant it," declares the Lord GOD.

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In the  atwelfth year, on the  afifteenth of the month, the word of the LORD came to me saying,

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"Son of man,  awail for the hordes of Egypt and  bbring it down, her and the daughters of the powerful nations, to the  cnether world, with those who go down to the pit;

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`Whom do you surpass in beauty? Go down and make your bed with the  auncircumcised.'

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"They shall fall in the midst of those who are slain by the sword.  1She is given over to the sword; they have  adrawn her and all her hordes away.

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"The  astrong 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, slain by the sword.'

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aAssyria is there and all her company;  1her graves are round about  2her. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword,

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whose  agraves are set in the remotest parts of the pit and her company is round about her grave. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword, who  1spread terror in the land of the living.

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aElam is there and all her hordes around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who went down uncircumcised to the  blower parts of the earth, who instilled their terror in the  cland of the living and  dbore their disgrace with those who went down to the pit.

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"They have made a  abed for her among the slain with all her hordes. Her graves are around it, they are all uncircumcised, slain by the sword (although their terror was  1instilled in the land of the living), and they bore their disgrace with those who go down to the pit;  2they were put in the midst of the slain.

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aMeshech,  bTubal and all their hordes are there; their graves  1surround them. All of them were slain by the sword  cuncircumcised, though they instilled their terror in the land of the living.

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aNor do they lie beside the fallen  1 bheroes of the uncircumcised, who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war and whose swords were laid under their heads; but the punishment for their  ciniquity rested on their bones, though the terror of these  1heroes was once in the land of the living.

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"But in the midst of the uncircumcised you will be broken and lie with those slain by the sword.

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"There also is  aEdom, its kings and all its  1princes, who  2for all their might are laid with those slain by the sword; they will lie with the uncircumcised and with those who go down to the pit.

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"There also are the  1chiefs of the  anorth, all of them, and all the  bSidonians, who in spite of the terror resulting from their might, in shame went down with the slain. So they lay down uncircumcised with those slain by the sword and bore their disgrace with those who go down to the pit.

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"These Pharaoh will see, and he will be  acomforted for all his hordes slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his army," declares the Lord GOD.

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"Though I instilled a terror of him in the land of the living, yet he will be made to lie down among the uncircumcised along with those slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his hordes," declares the Lord GOD.



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