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A sword will come upon Egypt,And anguish will be in Ethiopia;When the slain fall in Egypt,They take away her multitude,And her foundations are pulled down.

"They will be desolateIn the midst of the desolated lands;And her cities will beIn the midst of the cities laid waste.

And they will know that I am Yahweh,When I set a fire in EgyptAnd all her helpers are broken.

He and his people with him,The most ruthless of the nations,Will be brought in to make the land a ruin;And they will draw their swords against EgyptAnd fill the land with the slain.

Thus I will execute judgments on Egypt,And they will know that I am Yahweh."'"

Thus I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, but the arms of Pharaoh will fall. Then they will know that I am Yahweh, when I put My sword into the hand of the king of Babylon and he stretches it out against the land of Egypt.

When I scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the lands, then they will know that I am Yahweh.'"

They also went down with it to Sheol to those who were slain by the sword; and those who were its strength lived under its shade among the nations.

Thus says Lord Yahweh,"So I will spread My net over youWith an assembly of many peoples,And they shall bring you up in My net.

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

By the swords of the mighty ones I will cause your multitude to fall; all of them are ruthless ones of the nations,And they will devastate the lofty pride of Egypt,And all its multitude will be destroyed.

"When I make the land of Egypt a desolation,And the land is desolate of its fullness,When I strike all those who inhabit it,Then they shall know that I am Yahweh.

This is a lamentation, and they shall lament over it. The daughters of the nations shall lament over it. Over Egypt and over all her multitude they shall lament over it," declares Lord Yahweh.

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

The dominant 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.'

They have put a bed for her among the slain with all her multitude. Her graves are all around it; all of them are uncircumcised, slain by the sword (although their terror was put in the land of the living), and they bore their dishonor with those who go down to the pit; they were put in the midst of the slain.

"Meshech, Tubal, and all their multitude are there; their graves are all around them. All of them were slain by the sword uncircumcised, though they put their terror in the land of the living.

Nor do they lie beside the fallen mighty ones of the uncircumcised, who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war and whose swords were put under their heads; but the punishment for their iniquity rested on their bones, though the terror of these mighty ones was once in the land of the living.

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

"There also are the chiefs of the north, all of them, and all the Sidonians, 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 dishonor with those who go down to the pit.