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In the ^(z)twelfth year, on the ^(aa)fifteenth of the month, the word of the Lord came to me saying,

"Son of man, ^(ab)wail for the hordes of Egypt and ^(ac)bring it down, her and the daughters of the powerful nations, to the ^(ad)nether world, with those who go down to the pit;

‘Whom do you surpass in beauty? Go down and make your bed with the ^(ae)uncircumcised.'

They shall fall in the midst of those who are slain by the sword. ^[i]She is given over to the sword; they have ^(af)drawn her and all her hordes away.

The ^(ag)strong 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.'

"^(ah)Assyria is there and all her company; ^[j]her graves are round about ^[k]her. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword,

whose ^(ai)graves 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 ^[l]spread terror in the land of the living.

"^(aj)Elam is there and all her hordes around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who went down uncircumcised to the ^(ak)lower parts of the earth, who instilled their terror in the ^(al)land of the living and ^(am)bore their disgrace with those who went down to the pit.

They have made a ^(an)bed 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 ^[m]instilled in the land of the living), and they bore their disgrace with those who go down to the pit; ^[n]they were put in the midst of the slain.

"^(ao)Meshech, ^(ap)Tubal and all their hordes are there; their graves ^[o]surround them. All of them were slain by the sword ^(aq)uncircumcised, though they instilled their terror in the land of the living.

^(ar)Nor do they lie beside the fallen ^[p](as)heroes 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 ^(at)iniquity rested on their bones, though the terror of these ^[q]heroes was once in the land of the living.

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

"There also is ^(au)Edom, its kings and all its ^[r]princes, who ^[s]for 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.

"There also are the ^[t]chiefs of the ^(av)north, all of them, and all the ^(aw)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 disgrace with those who go down to the pit.

"These Pharaoh will see, and he will be ^(ax)comforted for all his hordes slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his army," declares the Lord God .

"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 .