The First Dirge: God's Judgment on Pharaoh

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In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month, the LORD’s word came to me, saying,

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Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and tell him, You were likened to a young lion of the nations: yet you are as a monster in the seas; and you broke out with your rivers, and troubled the waters with your feet, and fouled their rivers.

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Thus says the Lord GOD: I will spread out my net on you with a company of many peoples; and they shall bring you up in my net.

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I will leave you on the land, I will cast you out on the open field, and will cause all the birds of the sky to settle on you, and I will satisfy the animals of the whole earth with you.

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I will lay your flesh on the mountains, and fill the valleys with your height.

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I will also water with your blood the land in which you swim, even to the mountains; and the watercourses shall be full of you.

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When I shall extinguish you, I will cover the heavens, and make its stars dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light.

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All the bright lights of the sky will I make dark over you, and set darkness on your land, says the Lord GOD.

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I will also trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I shall bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries which you have not known.

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Yes, I will make many peoples amazed at you, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for you, when I shall brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of your fall.

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For thus says the Lord GOD: The sword of the king of Babylon shall come on you.

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By the swords of the mighty will I cause your multitude to fall; the terrible of the nations are they all: and they shall bring to nothing the pride of Egypt, and all its multitude shall be destroyed.

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I will destroy also all its animals from beside many waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of animals trouble them.

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Then will I make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to run like oil, says the Lord GOD.

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When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate and waste, a land destitute of that of which it was full, when I shall strike all those who dwell therein, then shall they know that I am the LORD.

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This is the lamentation with which they shall lament; the daughters of the nations shall lament therewith; over Egypt, and over all her multitude, shall they lament therewith, says the Lord GOD.

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