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            <div class="label">32</div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">A Lament Over Pharaoh</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EZK.32.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month on the first day, the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to me: </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EZK.32.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Son of man, take up a lament concerning Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EZK.32.2"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;You are like a lion among the nations;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EZK.32.2"><span class="content">you are like a monster in the seas</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EZK.32.2"><span class="content">thrashing about in your streams,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EZK.32.2"><span class="content">churning the water with your feet</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EZK.32.2"><span class="content">and muddying the streams.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EZK.32.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZK.32.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZK.32.3"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;With a great throng of people</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZK.32.3"><span class="content">I will cast my net over you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZK.32.3"><span class="content">and they will haul you up in my net.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZK.32.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZK.32.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I will throw you on the land</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZK.32.4"><span class="content">and hurl you on the open field.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZK.32.4"><span class="content">I will let all the birds of the sky settle on you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZK.32.4"><span class="content">and all the animals of the wild gorge themselves on you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZK.32.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZK.32.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I will spread your flesh on the mountains</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZK.32.5"><span class="content">and fill the valleys with your remains.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZK.32.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.32.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I will drench the land with your flowing blood</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.32.6"><span class="content">all the way to the mountains,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.32.6"><span class="content">and the ravines will be filled with your flesh.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.32.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.32.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">When I snuff you out, I will cover the heavens</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.32.7"><span class="content">and darken their stars;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.32.7"><span class="content">I will cover the sun with a cloud,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.32.7"><span class="content">and the moon will not give its light.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.32.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.32.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">All the shining lights in the heavens</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.32.8"><span class="content">I will darken over you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.32.8"><span class="content">I will bring darkness over your land,</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.32.8"><span class="content">declares the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.32.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.32.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">I will trouble the hearts of many peoples</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.32.9"><span class="content">when I bring about your destruction among the nations,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.32.9"><span class="content">among</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">32:9 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; Septuagint </span><span class="fqa">bring you into captivity among the nations, / to</span></span></span><span class="content"> lands you have not known.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.32.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.32.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I will cause many peoples to be appalled at you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.32.10"><span class="content">and their kings will shudder with horror because of you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.32.10"><span class="content">when I brandish my sword before them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.32.10"><span class="content">On the day of your downfall</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.32.10"><span class="content">each of them will tremble</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.32.10"><span class="content">every moment for his life.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.32.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.32.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;For this is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.32.11"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;The sword of the king of Babylon</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.32.11"><span class="content">will come against you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.32.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.32.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I will cause your hordes to fall</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.32.12"><span class="content">by the swords of mighty men&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.32.12"><span class="content">the most ruthless of all nations.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.32.12"><span class="content">They will shatter the pride of Egypt,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.32.12"><span class="content">and all her hordes will be overthrown.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.32.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EZK.32.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I will destroy all her cattle</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EZK.32.13"><span class="content">from beside abundant waters</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EZK.32.13"><span class="content">no longer to be stirred by the foot of man</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EZK.32.13"><span class="content">or muddied by the hooves of cattle.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EZK.32.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.32.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Then I will let her waters settle</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.32.14"><span class="content">and make her streams flow like oil,</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.32.14"><span class="content">declares the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.32.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EZK.32.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">When I make Egypt desolate</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EZK.32.15"><span class="content">and strip the land of everything in it,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EZK.32.15"><span class="content">when I strike down all who live there,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EZK.32.15"><span class="content">then they will know that I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EZK.32.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EZK.32.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;This is the lament they will chant for her. The daughters of the nations will chant it; for Egypt and all her hordes they will chant it, declares the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Egypt&#8217;s Descent Into the Realm of the Dead</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EZK.32.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZK.32.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">In the twelfth year, on the fifteenth day of the month, the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to me: </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EZK.32.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;Son of man, wail for the hordes of Egypt and consign to the earth below both her and the daughters of mighty nations, along with those who go down to the pit. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EZK.32.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Say to them, &#8216;Are you more favored than others? Go down and be laid among the uncircumcised.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EZK.32.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">They will fall among those killed by the sword. The sword is drawn; let her be dragged off with all her hordes. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EZK.32.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">From within the realm of the dead the mighty leaders will say of Egypt and her allies, &#8216;They have come down and they lie with the uncircumcised, with those killed by the sword.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EZK.32.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EZK.32.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;Assyria is there with her whole army; she is surrounded by the graves of all her slain, all who have fallen by the sword. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EZK.32.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Their graves are in the depths of the pit and her army lies around her grave. All who had spread terror in the land of the living are slain, fallen by the sword.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EZK.32.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EZK.32.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;Elam is there, with all her hordes around her grave. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword. All who had spread terror in the land of the living went down uncircumcised to the earth below. They bear their shame with those who go down to the pit. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EZK.32.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">A bed is made for her among the slain, with all her hordes around her grave. All of them are uncircumcised, killed by the sword. Because their terror had spread in the land of the living, they bear their shame with those who go down to the pit; they are laid among the slain.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EZK.32.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EZK.32.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">&#8220;Meshek and Tubal are there, with all their hordes around their graves. All of them are uncircumcised, killed by the sword because they spread their terror in the land of the living. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EZK.32.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">But they do not lie with the fallen warriors of old,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">32:27 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">warriors who were uncircumcised</span></span></span><span class="content"> who went down to the realm of the dead with their weapons of war&#8212;their swords placed under their heads and their shields</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">32:27 </span><span class="ft">Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">punishment</span></span></span><span class="content"> resting on their bones&#8212;though these warriors also had terrorized the land of the living.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EZK.32.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EZK.32.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">&#8220;You too, Pharaoh, will be broken and will lie among the uncircumcised, with those killed by the sword.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EZK.32.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EZK.32.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">&#8220;Edom is there, her kings and all her princes; despite their power, they are laid with those killed by the sword. They lie with the uncircumcised, with those who go down to the pit.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EZK.32.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="EZK.32.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">&#8220;All the princes of the north and all the Sidonians are there; they went down with the slain in disgrace despite the terror caused by their power. They lie uncircumcised with those killed by the sword and bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="EZK.32.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="EZK.32.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">&#8220;Pharaoh&#8212;he and all his army&#8212;will see them and he will be consoled for all his hordes that were killed by the sword, declares the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="EZK.32.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Although I had him spread terror in the land of the living, Pharaoh and all his hordes will be laid among the uncircumcised, with those killed by the sword, declares the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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