8. I will make all the shining lights in the skybecome dark over you.I will bring darkness over your land,says the Lord God.
9. I will cause many people to be afraidwhen I have another nation destroy you.Nations you have not known will be afraid because of you.
10. I will cause people to be shocked about you.Their kings will tremble with fear because of youwhen I swing my sword before them.They will shake every momenton the day you fall.Each king will be afraid for his own life.
11. “‘So this is what the Lord God says:The sword of the king of Babylonwill come on you.
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.