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.