13. I will slaughter your cattle at every water hole. There will be no people or cattle to muddy the water any more.
14. I will let your waters settle and become clear and let your rivers run calm. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken.
15. When I make Egypt a desolate waste and destroy all who live there, they will know that I am the Lord.
16. This solemn warning will become a funeral song. The women of the nations will sing it to mourn for Egypt and all its people. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken.”
17. On the fifteenth day of the first month of the twelfth year of our exile, the Lord spoke to me.
18. “Mortal man,” he said, “mourn for all the many people of Egypt. Send them down with the other powerful nations to the world of the dead.
19. Say to them:“Do you think you are more beautiful than anyone else?You will go down to the world of the deadand lie there among the ungodly.
20. “The people of Egypt will fall with those who are killed in battle. A sword is ready to kill them all.
21. The greatest heroes and those who fought on the Egyptian side welcome the Egyptians to the world of the dead. They shout: ‘The ungodly who were killed in battle have come down here, and here they lie!’
22. “Assyria is there, with the graves of her soldiers all around. They were all killed in battle,