15. When I shall make the land of Egypt a desolation, and the country shall be left desolate of all that was in it, when I have smitten all them that dwell therein, then shall they know that I am Jehovah.
16. It is a lamentation, and thus they shall lament her: the daughters of the nations shall say it in lamenting; they shall say it in lamenting over Egypt and over all her multitude, saith the Lord Jehovah.
17. And it came to pass in the twelfth year, on the fifteenth of the month, the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
18. Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, her and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the lower parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.
19. Whom dost thou surpass in beauty? Go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised.
20. They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the sword. The sword hath been given: draw her out, and all her multitudes.
21. The strong among the mighty, with them that helped him, shall speak to him out of the midst of Sheol: they are gone down, they lie still, the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
22. There is Asshur and all his assemblage, his graves round about him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword;