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In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

"Son of man, take up a song of mourning over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him, 'You compared yourself to a young lion of the nations, Yet you are like the monster in the seas; And you burst forth in your rivers And muddied the waters with your feet And fouled their rivers.'"

Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.

This is what the Lord GOD says: "Now I will spread My net over you With a contingent of many peoples, And they will lift you up in My net.

Thus saith the Lord God ; I will therefore spread out my net over thee with a company of many people; and they shall bring thee up in my net.

"I will leave you on the land; I will hurl you on the open field. And I will cause all the birds of the sky to nest on you, And I will satisfy the animals of the whole earth with you.

Then will I leave thee upon the land, I will cast thee forth upon the open field, and will cause all the fowls of the heaven to remain upon thee, and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with thee.

"I will lay your flesh on the mountains And fill the valleys with your refuse.

And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height.

"I will also make the land drink the discharge of your blood As far as the mountains, And the ravines will be full of you.

I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest, even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of thee.

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

And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.

"All the shining lights in the heavens I will darken over you And will set darkness on your land," Declares the Lord GOD.

All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord God .

"I will also trouble the hearts of many peoples when I bring your destruction among the nations, into lands which you have not known.

I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not known.

"And 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 again and again, every person for his own life, on the day of your fall."

Yea, I will make many people amazed at thee, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for thee, when I shall brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of thy fall.

For the Lord GOD says this: "The sword of the king of Babylon will attack you.

For thus saith the Lord God ; The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee.

"By the swords of the warriors I will make your multitude fall; all of them are tyrants of the nations, And they will devastate the pride of Egypt, And all its multitude will be destroyed.

By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall, the terrible of the nations, all of them: and they shall spoil the pomp of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed.

"I will also eliminate all its cattle from beside many waters; And a human foot will not muddy them anymore, And the hoofs of animals will not muddy them.

I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside the great waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them.

"Then I will make their waters settle, And make their rivers run like oil," Declares the Lord GOD.

Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord God .

"When I make the land of Egypt a desolation, And the land is destitute of that which filled it, When I strike all those who live in it, Then they shall know that I am the LORD.

When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and the country shall be destitute of that whereof it was full, when I shall smite all them that dwell therein, then shall they know that I am the Lord .

"This is a song of mourning, and they shall sing it. The daughters of the nations shall sing it. Over Egypt and over all her hordes they shall sing it," declares the Lord GOD.

This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament her: the daughters of the nations shall lament her: they shall lament for her, even for Egypt, and for all her multitude, saith the Lord God .