trees of pleasure? Behold, thou art brought down with the trees of
pleasure to the lowest parts of the earth: thou shalt sleep in the midst
of the uncircumcised, with them that are slain by the sword: this is
Pharao, and all his multitude, saith the Lord God.
Ezechiel Chapter 32
The prophet's lamentation for the king of Egypt.
32:1. And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in
the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me,
saying:
32:2. Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharao the king of Egypt,
and say to him: Thou art like the lion of the nations, and the dragon
that is in the sea: and thou didst push with the horn in thy rivers, and
didst trouble the waters with thy feet, and didst trample upon their
streams.
32:3. Therefore, thus saith the Lord God: I will spread out my net over
thee with the multitude of many people, and I will draw thee up in my
net.
32:4. And I will throw thee out on the land, I will cast thee away into
the open field and I will cause all the fowls of the air to dwell upon
thee, and I will fill the beasts of all the earth with thee.
32:5. And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and will fill thy
hills with thy corruption,
32:6. And I will water the earth with thy stinking blood upon the
mountains, and the valleys shall be filled with thee.
32:7. And I will cover the heavens, when thou shalt be put out, and I
will make the stars thereof dark: I will cover the sun with a cloud, and
the moon shall not give her light.
32:8. I will make all the lights of heaven to mourn over thee and I will
cause darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord God, when thy wounded shall
fall in the midst of the land, saith the Lord God.
32:9. And I shall provoke to anger the heart of many people, when I
shall have brought in thy destruction among the nations upon the lands,
which thou knowest not.
32:10. And I will make many people to be amazed at thee, and their kings
shall be horribly afraid for thee, when my sword shall begin to fly upon
their faces: and they shall be astonished on a sudden, every one for his
own life, in the day of their ruin.
32:11. For thus saith the Lord God: The sword of the king of Babylon
shall come upon thee,
32:12. By the swords of the mighty I will overthrow thy multitude: all
these nations are invincible: and they shall waste the pride of Egypt,
and the multitude thereof shall be destroyed.
32:13. I will destroy
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