12. I will cause your people to fallby the swords of mighty soldiers.They are the most terrible of all the nations.They will destroy the pride of Egypt.All Egypt’s people will be destroyed.
13. I will also destroy all Egypt’s cattlewhich live alongside many waters.The foot of man will not stir the waters.And the hooves of cattle will not muddy them anymore.
14. So I will let the Egyptians’ waters become quiet.I will cause their rivers to run as smoothly as olive oil,says the Lord God.
15. I will make the land of Egypt empty.I will take everything that is in the land.I will destroy all those who live in Egypt.Then they will know that I am the Lord.’
16. “This is the funeral song people will sing for Egypt. The women of the nations will sing it for Egypt. They will sing a funeral song for Egypt and all its people, says the Lord God.”
17. It happened in the twelfth year of our captivity. It was on the fifteenth day of the month. The Lord spoke his word to me. He said:
18. “Human being, cry for the people of Egypt. Bring down Egypt, together with the women of the powerful nations. Bring them down to the earth below. Bring them down with those who go to the place of the dead.
19. Say to them: ‘Are you more beautiful than others? Go lie down in death with those who are unclean.’
20. The Egyptians will fall among those killed by war. Egypt is going to be killed by the sword. The enemy will drag her and all her people away.
21. The leaders of the mighty ones will speak from the place of death. They will say about the king of Egypt and the nations which help him: ‘The king and the nations which help him have come down here. They lie killed by the sword among those who are unclean.’
22. “Assyria and all its army lie dead there. The graves of their soldiers are all around. All were killed in war.
23. Assyria’s grave was put in the deep parts of the place where the dead are. And its army lies around its grave. When they lived, they frightened people in the land of the living. But now all of them have been killed in war.
24. “The nation of Elam is there. And all its army is around its grave. All of them were killed in war. They had frightened people on earth and were unclean. So they went down to the lowest parts of the place where the dead are. And they must carry their shame with those who go down to the place where the dead are.
25. A bed is made for Elam with all those killed in war. They will be in the place where the dead are. The graves of her soldiers are all around her. Elam’s people are unclean. So they have been killed in war. They also scared people who live on earth. But they must also carry their shame with those who go down to where the dead are. Their graves are with the rest who were killed.
26. “Meshech and Tubal are there. The graves of all their soldiers surround them. All of them are unclean. So they have been killed in war. They also frightened people who live on earth.
27. But they are not buried with the other unclean soldiers who have been killed in battle. They are not with those who went where the dead are with their weapons of war. These soldiers had their swords laid under their heads and their shields on their bodies. People who live on earth used to be afraid of these mighty soldiers.
28. “You, king of Egypt, will be broken and lie among those who are unclean. You will be with those who were killed in war.