Ezekiel 32:1-16

1The Lord gave this message to me on the first day of the 12th month, in the 12th year:

2‘Son of man, sing a funeral song about Pharaoh, king of Egypt. Say this to him: “You have shown your power among the nations, like a strong lion. But really you are a monster who lives in the sea. You live in the rivers of your country. You beat the water with your feet. The water of your streams becomes dirty.

3This is what the Almighty Lord says: I will bring a big crowd of people together to catch you in my net. They will use my net to pull you out of the water.

4I will throw you onto dry ground and I will leave you there. I will bring the birds to fly down from the sky and sit on you. I will bring the wild animals to feed themselves on you, and eat as much as they want.

5I will put the meat of your body on the mountains. Your bones will fill the valleys.

6I will make the ground wet with your blood. It will pour out of you, up to the mountains. And it will fill the deep valleys.

7When I completely destroy you, I will cover the sky and make the stars become dark. I will cover the sun with a cloud. The moon will no longer give any light.

8I will make the sky over you become dark, with no lights in it. Your whole country will become dark. That is what the Almighty Lord says.

9When many other nations know that I have destroyed you, they will be afraid. Foreign nations that you do not know will be very upset.

10The people of many countries will be afraid when they see what I have done to you. Their kings will shake with fear. When I wave my sword in front of them, they will not stop shaking! At the time that your life finishes, they will also fear death.

11This is what the Almighty Lord says: The king of Babylon will attack you with his army.

12His brave soldiers will fight against you. I will cause them to destroy your army. They are the most cruel of all the nations. They will stop Egypt's people being proud of their power. They will destroy all Egypt's armies.

13I will destroy all Egypt's cows that live beside its great rivers. So no people or animals will walk in the water any more. They will not cause the water to become dirty.

14Then I will cause the water in the rivers to be clean again. The water will move freely like olive oil. That is what the Almighty Lord says.

15I will cause Egypt to become an empty place. I will remove everything that grows on the land. I will kill all the people who live there. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”

16That is the funeral song that they will sing about Egypt. Women of many nations will sing it. They will sing it because of the death of Egypt and all her people. That is what the Almighty Lord says.’