Dual Panel1On the first day of the twelfth month in the twelfth year this word of the LORD came to me:
2“O man, raise a dirge over Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: Young lion of the nations, your end has come. You were like a monster in the waters of the Nile scattering the water with its snout, churning up the water with its feet and muddying the streams.
3“The Lord GOD says: When many nations are assembled I shall spread my net over you, and you will be hauled ashore in its meshes.
4I shall fling you on land, dashing you on the ground. I shall let all the birds of the air settle upon you and all the wild beasts gorge themselves on you.
5I shall leave your carcass on the mountains, and fill the valleys with the worms that feed on it.
6I shall drench the land with your blood as it pours out on the mountains, and the ravines will be filled with it.
7When your light is quenched I shall veil the sky and darken its stars; I shall veil the sun with clouds, and the moon will give no light.
8I shall darken all the shining lights of the sky above you and bring darkness over your land. This is the word of the Lord GOD.
9“I shall cause disquiet to many peoples when I bring your broken army among the nations, into lands you have never known.
10I shall appal many peoples with your fate; when I brandish my sword in the presence of their kings, their hair will stand on end. On the day of your downfall not a moment will pass without each trembling for his own fate.
11For the Lord GOD has said: The king of Babylon's sword will come upon you.
12I shall make your hordes of people fall by the sword of warriors who are of all men the most ruthless. They will shatter the pride of Egypt, and all her hordes will be wiped out.
13I shall destroy all their cattle beside abundant waters. No foot or hoof will ever churn them up again.
14Then I shall let their waters settle and their streams glide smooth as oil. This is the word of the Lord GOD.
15When I have laid Egypt waste, and the whole land lies empty, when I strike down all who live there, they will know that I am the LORD.
16“The women of the nations will raise this dirge, singing it as a dirge over Egypt and all her hordes. This is the word of the Lord GOD.”
17On the fifteenth day of the first month in the twelfth year, this word of the LORD came to me:
18“O man, raise a lament, you and the daughters of the nations, over Egypt's hordes and her nobility. I shall consign them to the world below, in company with those who go down to the abyss.
19Are you better favoured than others? Go down and lie with the uncircumcised dead.
20“A sword is drawn. Those who marched with her, together with all her hordes, will descend into the company of those slain by the sword.
21Warrior chieftains in Sheol speak to Pharaoh and his allies. “‘The uncircumcised dead, slain by the sword, have come down and lie there.
22Assyria is there with all her company buried around her, all of them slain, victims of the sword.
23Their graves are set in the farthest depths of the abyss, with her slain buried round about her, all victims of the sword, who once spread terror in the land of the living.
24Elam is there with all her people buried around her, all of them slain, victims of the sword. They have gone down uncircumcised to the world below, who spread terror in the land of the living, but now bear disgrace with those who go down to the abyss.
25A bed has been made for her in the midst of the slain. All her peoples are buried around her, all of them uncircumcised, victims of the sword. Those, who once spread terror in the land of the living, now bear disgrace with those who go down to the abyss, and are assigned a place in the midst of the slain.
26Meshech and Tubal are there with all their hordes buried around them, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, who once spread terror in the land of the living.
27Do they not rest with warriors fallen uncircumcised, who have gone down to Sheol with their weapons, their swords laid under their heads and their shields over their bones, though the terror of the warriors once weighed heavily on the land of the living?
28Pharaoh, you also will lie broken in the company of the uncircumcised dead, lying with those slain by the sword.
29Edom is there, with her kings and all her princes, who, despite their might, have been laid with those slain by the sword. They will lie with the uncircumcised dead and with those who go down to the abyss.
30All the princes of the north and the Sidonians are there, who, despite the terror inspired by their might, have gone down in shame with the slain. They lie uncircumcised with those slain by the sword, and they bear disgrace with those who go down to the abyss.’
31“Pharaoh will see them and be consoled for his lost hordes -- Pharaoh who, with all his army, is slain by the sword, says the Lord GOD.
32Though he spread terror throughout the land of the living, yet he with all his hordes is laid with those slain by the sword, in the company of the uncircumcised dead. This is the word of the Lord GOD.”