12. I will cause your multitude to fall by the swords of mighty ones, all of them most ruthless of nations. “They shall bring to ruin the pride of Egypt,and all its multitude shall perish.
13. I will destroy all its beastsfrom beside many waters; and no foot of man shall trouble them anymore,nor shall the hoofs of beasts trouble them.
14. Then I will make their waters clear,and cause their rivers to run like oil,declares the Lord God.
15. When I make the land of Egypt desolate,and when the land is desolate of all that fills it,when I strike down all who dwell in it,then they will know that I am the Lord.
16. This is a lamentation that shall be chanted; the daughters of the nations shall chant it; over Egypt, and over all her multitude, shall they chant it, declares the Lord God.”
17. In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:
18. “Son of man, wail over the multitude of Egypt, and send them down, her and the daughters of majestic nations, to the world below, to those who have gone down to the pit:
19. ‘Whom do you surpass in beauty?Go down and be laid to rest with the uncircumcised.’
20. They shall fall amid those who are slain by the sword. Egypt is delivered to the sword; drag her away, and all her multitudes.