1. On the first day of the twelfth month in the twelfth year, the word of the Lord came to me:
2. Son of man, utter a lament over Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and say to him:You liken yourself to a lion among nations,but you are like the monster in the sea!Thrashing about in your streams,churning the water with your feet,polluting the streams.
3. Thus says the Lord God:I will cast my net over youby assembling many armies,and I will hoist you up in my mesh.
4. I will hurl you onto the land,cast you into an open field.I will make all the birds of the skyroost upon you,The beasts of the whole earthgorge themselves on you.
5. I will strew your flesh on the mountains,and fill the valleys with your corpse.
6. I will drench the land,pouring out your blood on the mountain;filling up the ravines with you.
7. When I extinguish you,I will cover the heavensand darken all its stars.The sun I will cover with clouds;the moon will not give light.
8. All the shining lights in the heavensI will darken over you;I will spread darkness over your land—oracle of the Lord God.
9. I will trouble the heartsof many peoples,When I bring you captiveamong the nations,to lands you do not know.
10. I will fill many nations with horror;their kings will shudder at you,when I brandish my sword in their faces.They will tremble violentlyfearing for their lives on the day of your fall.
11. For thus says the Lord God:The sword of the king of Babylonwill come against you.
12. I will cut down your hordeswith the swords of warriors,all of them, ruthless nations;They will lay waste the glory of Egypt,and all its hordes will be destroyed.
13. I will wipe out all the livestockfrom the banks of its many waters;No human foot will disturb them again,no animal hoof stir them up.
14. Then I will make their waters clearand their streams flow like oil—oracle of the Lord God.
15. When I make Egypt a wastelandand the land destitute of everything,When I strike down all its inhabitantsthey shall know that I am the Lord.
16. This is the lamentationwomen of all nations will chant;They will raise it over Egypt;over all its hordes they will chant it—oracle of the Lord God.
17. On the fifteenth day of that month in the twelfth year, the word of the Lord came to me:
18. Son of man, wail over the hordes of Egypt—you and the women of mighty nations—Send them down to the underworld,with those who go down into the pit.