Ezekiel 32 in plain modern English. New Ground English Translation.
In the twelfth year, on the first day of the twelfth month, came to me:
of raise a over Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and say to him: You compared yourself to a young lion among the nations, but you are really a thrashing in your rivers, churning the water with your feet, muddying the currents."
This is what Yahweh, the says: "I will spread my net over you with a vast army of many peoples, and they will haul you up in my
"I will throw you on the ground, hurl you out onto the open field. I will make every bird in the sky settle on you and let the wild animals of the whole earth on you."
"I will scatter your flesh across the mountains and fill the valleys with your
"I will drench the land with your flowing blood, all the way up to the mountains, and the ravines will be filled with your flesh."
"When I you out, I will cover the sky and darken its stars. I will veil the sun with a cloud, and the moon will not shed its light."
"I will darken every shining light in the sky above you and bring darkness over your land," declares Yahweh, the Sovereign God.
"I will the of many peoples when I bring news of your destruction among the nations, to countries you have never even known."
"I will make many peoples horrified at what happens to you, and their kings will shudder with dread when I my before them. On the day you fall, every one of them will tremble constantly, each fearing for his own life."
"For this is what Yahweh, the Sovereign God, says: The sword of the king of Babylon will come against you."
"I will make your hordes fall by the swords of mighty warriors — the most of all nations. They will shatter the of Egypt, and all her masses will be destroyed."
"I will wipe out all her livestock from beside the waters. No human foot will muddy them again, no animal hoof will stir them."
"Then I will let their waters settle and make their rivers flow as oil," declares Yahweh, the Sovereign God.
"When I turn the land of Egypt into a wasteland and strip the land of everything in it, when I strike down everyone who lives there — then they will that I am
"This is the they will sing for her. The women of the nations will sing it. They will sing it over Egypt and all her masses," declares Yahweh, the Sovereign God.
In the twelfth year, on the fifteenth day of the month, Yahweh's word came to me:
"Son of man, wail over the masses of Egypt. Send her down — her and the women of powerful nations — to the underworld, with those who go down to the
"Are you more beautiful than anyone else? Go down and be laid to rest with the
"They will fall among those killed by the sword. The is drawn! Drag her away with all her masses."
"The will speak from within the grave, saying of Egypt and her allies: 'They have come down, they lie still — the uncircumcised, killed by the sword.'"
is there with her whole company, her graves all around her. Every one of them killed, fallen by the sword."
"Her graves are set in the deepest parts of the pit, and her company surrounds her burial place. All of them killed, fallen by the sword — they who once spread terror in the of the
is there with all her masses, around her grave. All of them killed, fallen by the sword, who went down uncircumcised to the underworld — they who once spread their terror in the land of the living. Now they their shame with those who go down to the pit."
"A is for her among the killed, with all her masses around her grave. All of them uncircumcised, killed by the sword. Because their terror was spread in the land of the living, they carry their shame with those who go down to the pit. She is placed among the killed."
and are there with all their masses, their graves all around them. All of them uncircumcised, killed by the sword, because they spread their terror in the land of the living."
"They do not lie with the of old who went down to the grave with their weapons of war, their their heads and their shields laid over their bones — even though these once terrified the land of the living."
"But you, Egypt — you will be broken and lie among the uncircumcised, with those killed by the sword."
is there — her kings and all her princes, who despite their power are laid with those killed by the sword. They lie with the uncircumcised, with those who go down to the pit."
"All the of the are there, and all the Sidonians, who went down with the killed. Despite the terror their power inspired, they are put to shame. They lie uncircumcised with those killed by the sword and carry their shame with those who go down to the pit."
"Pharaoh will see them and be over all his masses — Pharaoh and his whole army, killed by the sword," declares Yahweh, the Sovereign God.
"For I my in the land of the living, and Pharaoh and all his masses will be laid to rest among the uncircumcised, with those killed by the sword," declares Yahweh, the Sovereign God.