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32In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me: ²Mortal, raise a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him: You consider yourself a lion among the nations, but you are like a dragon in the seas; you thrash about in your streams, trouble the water with your feet, and foul your streams. ³Thus says the Lord God: In an assembly of many peoples I will throw my net over you; and I will haul you up in my dragnet. ⁴I will throw you on the ground, on the open field I will fling you, and will cause all the birds of the air to settle on you, and I will let the wild animals of the whole earth gorge themselves with you. ⁵I will strew your flesh on the mountains, and fill the valleys with your carcass. ⁶I will drench the land with your flowing blood up to the mountains, and the watercourses will be filled with you. ⁷When I blot you out, I will cover the heavens, and make their stars dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light. ⁸All the shining lights of the heavens I will darken above you, and put darkness on your land, says the Lord God. ⁹I will trouble the hearts of many peoples, as I carry you captive among the nations, into countries you have not known. ¹⁰I will make many peoples appalled at you; their kings shall shudder because of you. When I brandish my sword before them, they shall tremble every moment for their lives, each one of them, on the day of your downfall. ¹¹For thus says the Lord God: The sword of the king of Babylon shall come against you. ¹²I will cause your hordes to fall by the swords of mighty ones, all of them most terrible among the nations. They shall bring to ruin the pride of Egypt, and all its hordes shall perish. ¹³I will destroy all its livestock from beside abundant waters; and no human foot shall trouble them any more, nor shall the hoofs of cattle trouble them. ¹⁴Then I will make their waters clear, and cause their streams to run like oil, says the Lord God. ¹⁵When I make the land of Egypt desolate and when the land is stripped of all that fills it, when I strike down all who live in it, then they shall know that I am the Lord. ¹⁶This is a lamentation; it shall be chanted. The women of the nations shall chant it. Over Egypt and all its hordes they shall chant it, says the Lord God.