1And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first of the month, the word of YHWH came to me, saying:
2Son of man (adam), take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and you shall say to him: A young lion of the nations you were likened to, but you are like the great sea-creature (tannin) in the seas; and you burst forth in your rivers, and you troubled the waters with your feet, and fouled their rivers.
3Thus says my Lord (Adonai) YHWH: And I will spread over you my net with an assembly of many peoples, and they shall bring you up in my dragnet.
4And I will cast you upon the land, upon the face of the field I will hurl you; and I will cause to dwell upon you all the birds of the heavens, and I will satisfy from you the beasts of all the earth.
5And I will put your flesh (basar) upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with your carcass.
6And I will water the land of your swimming with your blood, to the mountains; and the channels shall be filled from you.
7And I will cover, when I extinguish you, the heavens, and I will darken their stars; the sun with a cloud I will cover, and the moon shall not give its light.
8All the luminaries of light in the heavens I will darken over you, and I will set darkness upon your land, declares my Lord (Adonai) YHWH.
9And I will vex the heart of many peoples, when I bring your breaking among the nations, into lands that you have not known.
10And I will make many peoples appalled over you, and their kings shall shudder a shudder over you, when I brandish my sword before their faces; and they shall tremble every moment, each man (ish) for his soul (nephesh), in the day of your fall.
11For thus says my Lord (Adonai) YHWH: The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon you.
12By the swords of the mighty I will cause your multitude to fall, the most terrible of nations, all of them; and they shall spoil the pride of Egypt, and all her multitude shall be destroyed.
13And I will destroy all her beasts from beside the many waters; and the foot of man (adam) shall not trouble them anymore, nor the hooves of beasts trouble them.
14Then I will make their waters settle, and their rivers I will make go like oil, declares my Lord (Adonai) YHWH.
15When I make the land of Egypt a desolation, a land desolate of its fullness, when I smite all those dwelling in her; then they shall know that I am YHWH.
16A lamentation it is, and they shall chant it; the daughters of the nations shall chant it; over Egypt and over all her multitude they shall chant it, declares my Lord (Adonai) YHWH.
17And it came to pass in the twelfth year, on the fifteenth of the month, the word of YHWH came to me, saying:
18Son of man (adam), wail over the multitude of Egypt, and bring it down — her and the daughters of majestic nations — to the lower earth, with those going down to the pit.
19Whom do you surpass in beauty? Go down, and be laid with the uncircumcised.
20In the midst of those slain by the sword they shall fall; to the sword she is given; draw her down and all her multitudes.
21The mighty ones of the warriors shall speak to him from the midst of Sheol with his helpers; they have gone down, they lie still, the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
22There is Asshur and all her assembly, around it its graves; all of them slain, fallen by the sword;
23whose graves are set in the recesses of the pit, and her assembly is around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who gave terror in the land of the living (chai).
24There is Elam and all her multitude around her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who went down uncircumcised to the lower earth, who gave their terror in the land of the living (chai); and they bear their shame with those going down to the pit.
25In the midst of the slain they have given a bed to her with all her multitude; around it her graves; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, because their terror was given in the land of the living (chai); and they bear their shame with those going down to the pit; in the midst of the slain they are placed.
26There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude; around it her graves; all of them uncircumcised, pierced by the sword, because they gave their terror in the land of the living (chai).
27And they do not lie with the mighty ones, the fallen of the uncircumcised, who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war, and they put their swords under their heads; and their iniquities were upon their bones, for the terror of the mighty was in the land of the living (chai).
28And you — in the midst of the uncircumcised you shall be broken, and you shall lie with those slain by the sword.
29There is Edom, her kings and all her princes, who were given, in their might, with those slain by the sword; they lie with the uncircumcised and with those going down to the pit.
30There are the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Sidonians, who went down with the slain, in their terror; of their might they are ashamed; and they lie uncircumcised with those slain by the sword, and they bear their shame with those going down to the pit.
31Pharaoh shall see them, and be comforted over all his multitude — Pharaoh and all his army, slain by the sword, declares my Lord (Adonai) YHWH.
32For I have put my terror in the land of the living (chai); and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those slain by the sword — Pharaoh and all his multitude, declares my Lord (Adonai) YHWH.