12
March 585 B.C. See
Ezekiel 32.17. “Egypt and Others Consigned to the Pit.”
32 2 The Prophet is
commanded to bewail Pharaoh King of Egypt. 12 He prophesieth that destruction
shall come unto Egypt through the King of Babylon.
1 And in the [a]twelfth year in the
twelfth month, and in the first day of the month, the word of the
Lord came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, take up a
lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a [b]lion of the nations,
and art as a [c]dragon in the sea:
thou castedst out thy rivers [d]and troubledst the
waters with thy feet, and stampedst in their rivers.
3 Thus saith the Lord
God, I will therefore spread my net over thee a great multitude of people, and
they shall make thee come up into my net,
4 Then will I leave thee
upon the land, and I will cast thee upon the open field, and I will
cause all the fowls of the heaven to remain upon thee, and I will fill all the
beasts of the field with thee.
5 And I will lay thy
flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys [e]with thine height.
6 I will also water with
thy blood the land wherein thou [f]swimmest, even
to the mountains, and the rivers shall be full of thee.
7 And when I shall [g]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.
8 All the lights of
heaven will I make dark for thee, and bring [h]darkness upon thy
land, saith the Lord God.
9 I will also trouble the
hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations, and
upon the countries which thou hast not known.
10 Yea, I will make many
people amazed at thee, and their kings shall be astonished with fear for thee,
when I shall make my sword to glitter against their faces, and they shall be
afraid at every moment: every man for his own life in the day of thy fall.
11 For thus saith the Lord
God, The sword of the king of Babel shall come upon thee.
12 By the swords of the
mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall: they all shall be terrible nations,
and they shall destroy the [i]pomp of Egypt, and all
the multitude thereof shall be consumed.
13 I will destroy also all
the beasts thereof from the great watersides, neither shall the foot of man
trouble them anymore, nor the hooves of beasts trouble them.
14 Then will I make [j]their waters deep, and
cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord God.
15 When I shall make the
land of Egypt desolate, and the country with all that is therein, shall be laid
waste: when I shall smite all them which dwell therein, then shall they know
that I am the Lord.
16 This is the mourning
wherewith they shall lament her: the daughters of the nations shall lament her:
they shall lament for Egypt, and for all her multitude, saith the Lord God.
17 ¶ In the twelfth year
also in the fifteenth day of the month, came the word of the Lord unto
me, saying,
18 Son of man, lament for
the multitude of Egypt, and [k]cast them down, even
them and the daughters of the mighty nations under the nether parts of the
earth, with them that go down into the pit.
19 Whom dost thou pass [l]in beauty? go down and
sleep with the uncircumcised.
20 They shall fall in the
midst of them that are slain by the sword: [m]she is delivered to
the sword: draw her down, and all her multitude.
21 The most mighty and
strong shall speak to [n]him out of the midst
of hell with them that help her: they are gone down, and sleep with the
uncircumcised that be slain by the sword.
22 Assyria is there and
all his company: their graves are about him: all they are slain and
fallen by the sword.
23 Whose graves are made
in the side of the pit, and his multitude are round about his grave: all they
are slain and fallen by the sword, which caused fear to be in the
land of the living.
24 There is [o]Elam and all his
multitude round about his grave: all they are slain and fallen by the
sword, which are gone down with the uncircumcised into the nether parts of the
earth, which caused themselves to be feared in the land of the [p]living, yet have they
borne their shame with them that are gone down to the pit.
25 They have made his bed
in the midst of the slain with all his multitude: their graves are round
about him: all these uncircumcised are slain by the sword: though they have
caused their fear in the land of the living, yet have they borne their shame
with them that go down to the pit: they are laid in the midst of them that be
slain.
26 There is [q]Meshech, Tubal, and
all their multitude: their graves are round about them: all these
uncircumcised were slain by the sword, though they caused their fear to be
in the land of the living.
27 And they shall not lie
with the valiant [r]of the uncircumcised,
that are fallen, which are gone down to the grave with their weapons of war,
and have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquity shall be upon
their bones: because they were the fear of the mighty in the land of the
living.
28 Yea, thou shalt be
broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and lie with them that are slain by
the sword.
29 There is Edom, his
kings, and all his princes, which with their strength are laid by them that
were slain by the sword: they shall sleep with the uncircumcised, and with them
that go down to the pit.
30 There be all the
princes of the [s]North, with all the
Sidonians, which are gone down with the slain, with their fear: they are
ashamed of their strength, and the uncircumcised sleep with them that be slain
by the sword, and bear their shame with them that go down to the pit.
31 Pharaoh shall see them,
and he shall be [t]comforted over all his
multitude: Pharaoh, and all his army shall be slain by the sword, saith
the Lord God.
32 For I have caused my [u]fear to be in
the land of the living: and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised
with them, that are slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his
multitude, saith the Lord God.
Footnotes:
Ezekiel 32:1 Which was the first year of the
general captivity under Zedekiah.
Ezekiel 32:2 Thus the scriptures compare tyrants
to cruel and huge beasts which devour all that be weaker than they, and such as
they may overcome.
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Ezekiel 32:6 As Nile overfloweth Egypt, so will
I make the blood of thine host to overflow it.
Ezekiel 32:7 The word signifieth to be put out
as a candle is put out.
Ezekiel 32:8 By this manner of speech is meant
the great sorrow that shall be for the slaughter of the king and his people.
Ezekiel 32:12 This came to pass in less than
four years after this prophecy.
Ezekiel 32:14 To wit, of the Chaldeans thine
enemies, which shall quietly enjoy all thy commodities.
Ezekiel 32:18 That is, prophesy, that they
shall be cast down: thus the Lord giveth his Prophets power both to plant and
to destroy by his word, read Jer.
1:10.
Ezekiel 32:19 Have not other kingdoms, more
beautiful than thou, perished?
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Ezekiel 32:21 To make the matter more sensible,
he bringeth in Pharaoh whom the dead shall meet and marvel at him, read Isa. 14:9.
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Ezekiel 32:26 That is, the Cappadocians and
Italians, or Spaniards, as Josephus writeth.
Ezekiel 32:27 Which died not by cruel death,
but by the course of nature, and are honorably buried with their coat armor,
and signs of honor.
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Ezekiel 32:31 As the wicked rejoice when they
see others partakers of their miseries.
Ezekiel 32:32 I will make the Egyptians afraid
of me, as they caused others to fear them.
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