Study Desk

And it happened in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first of the month, the Word of Jehovah was to me, saying,

Son of man, lift up a lament over Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and say to him, You were like a young lion of the nations, and you were like the monster in the seas. And you burst forth in your rivers and stirred up the waters with your feet andfouled their rivers.

So says the Lord Jehovah: And I will spread out My net over you with an assembly of many peoples, and they will make you go up in My net.

Then I will leave you on the land; I will hurl you on the face of the field and will make all the birds of the heavens to dwell on you, And I will fill the beasts of all the earth from you.

And I will put your flesh on the mountains and fill the valleys with your heap.

And I will water the the land with the discharge of your blood, to the mountains, and the ravines shall be full of you.

And I will cover the heavens when I quench you, and I will darken their stars. I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light.

I will darken all the luminaries of light in the heavens over you and will give darkness on your land, declares the Lord Jehovah.

I will also vex the heart of many peoples when I bring your breaking among the nations, to the lands which you have not known.

And I will make many people appalled at you, and their kings will be horribly afraid at you, when I make My sword fly before their faces. And they shall quake at every moment, each man for his own life, in the day of your fall.

For so says the Lord Jehovah: The sword of the king of Babylon shall come on you.

By the swords of the mighty I will make your host fall, by the fearful of the nations, all of them. And they shall spoil the pride of Egypt, and all its host shall be destroyed.

I will also destroy all her beasts from on the great waters, and the foot of man shall not stir them any longer, and the hoofs of beasts shall not stir them up.

Then I will make their waters sink and cause their rivers to go down like oil, says the Lord Jehovah.

When I shall make the land of Egypt a ruin, and the land shall be wasted of its fullness when I shall strike all those who dwell in it; then they shall know that I am Jehovah.

This is a lamentation, and they shall lament her; the daughters of the nations shall lament her. Over Egypt and over all her multitude, they shall lament her, declares the Lord Jehovah.