8. All the shining lights in the heavensI will darken over you;I will spread darkness over your land—oracle of the Lord God.
9. I will trouble the heartsof many peoples,When I bring you captiveamong the nations,to lands you do not know.
10. I will fill many nations with horror;their kings will shudder at you,when I brandish my sword in their faces.They will tremble violentlyfearing for their lives on the day of your fall.
11. For thus says the Lord God:The sword of the king of Babylonwill come against you.
12. I will cut down your hordeswith the swords of warriors,all of them, ruthless nations;They will lay waste the glory of Egypt,and all its hordes will be destroyed.
13. I will wipe out all the livestockfrom the banks of its many waters;No human foot will disturb them again,no animal hoof stir them up.
14. Then I will make their waters clearand their streams flow like oil—oracle of the Lord God.
15. When I make Egypt a wastelandand the land destitute of everything,When I strike down all its inhabitantsthey shall know that I am the Lord.
16. This is the lamentationwomen of all nations will chant;They will raise it over Egypt;over all its hordes they will chant it—oracle of the Lord God.
17. On the fifteenth day of that month in the twelfth year, the word of the Lord came to me:
18. Son of man, wail over the hordes of Egypt—you and the women of mighty nations—Send them down to the underworld,with those who go down into the pit.
19. Whom do you excel in beauty? Go down!Be laid to rest with the uncircumcised!
20. Among those slain by the sword they will fall,for the sword has been appointed!Seize Egypt and all its hordes.