14. Then I will make their waters clear,and cause their rivers to run like oil,”says the Lord GOD.
15. “When I make the land of Egypt desolate and waste,a land destitute of that of which it was full,when I strike all those who dwell therein,then they will know that I am the Lord.
16. “‘“This is the lamentation with which they will lament. The daughters of the nations will lament with this. They will lament with it over Egypt, and over all her multitude,” says the Lord GOD.’”
17. Also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day of the month, the Lord’s word came to me, saying,
18. “Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her and the daughters of the famous nations, to the lower parts of the earth, with those who go down into the pit.
19. Whom do you pass in beauty? Go down, and be laid with the uncircumcised.
20. They will fall amongst those who are slain by the sword. She is delivered to the sword. Draw her away with all her multitudes.
21. The strong amongst the mighty will speak to him out of the middle of Sheol with those who help him. They have gone down. The uncircumcised lie still, slain by the sword.
22. “Asshur is there with all her company. Her graves are all around her. All of them slain, fallen by the sword;
23. whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit, and her company is around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who caused terror in the land of the living.