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And all the beasts of the field will come 5 I will lay your flesh on the mountains,
to its branches— And fill the valleys with your carcass.
14 ‘So that no trees by the waters may ever 6 ‘I will also water the land with the flow
again exalt themselves for their height, nor set of your blood,
their tops among the thick boughs, that no tree Even to the mountains;
which drinks water may ever be high enough And the riverbeds will be full of you.
to reach up to them. 7 When I put out your light,
I will cover the heavens, and make its
‘For they have all been delivered to stars dark;
death,
To the depths of the earth, I will cover the sun with a cloud,
And the moon shall not give her light.
Among the children of men who go 8 All the bright lights of the heavens
down to the Pit.’
I will make dark over you,
15 “Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘In the day when And bring darkness upon your land,’
it went down to hell, I caused mourning. I cov- Says the Lord GOD.
ered the deep because of it. I restrained its 9 ‘I will also trouble the hearts of many peo-
rivers, and the great waters were held back. I ples, when I bring your destruction among the
caused Lebanon to mourn for it, and all the nations, into the countries which you have not
trees of the field wilted because of it. I made known. Yes, I will make many peoples aston-
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the nations shake at the sound of its fall, when ished at you, and their kings shall be horribly
I cast it down to hell together with those who afraid of you when I brandish My sword before
descend into the Pit; and all the trees of Eden, them; and they shall tremble every moment,
the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink every man for his own life, in the day of your fall.’
water, were comforted in the depths of the 11 “For thus says the Lord GOD: ‘The sword
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earth. They also went down to hell with it, of the king of Babylon shall come upon you.
with those slain by the sword; and those who 12 By the swords of the mighty warriors, all of
were its strong arm dwelt in its shadows them the most terrible of the nations, I will
among the nations. cause your multitude to fall.
18 ‘To which of the trees in Eden will you
then be likened in glory and greatness? Yet ‘They shall plunder the pomp of Egypt,
you shall be brought down with the trees of And all its multitude shall be
Eden to the depths of the earth; you shall lie destroyed.
in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those 13 Also I will destroy all its animals
slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his From beside its great waters;
multitude,’ says the Lord GOD.” The foot of man shall muddy them
And it came to pass in the twelfth year, no more,
32 in the twelfth month, on the first day of Nor shall the hooves of animals muddy
the month, that the word of the LORD came to them.
14 Then I will make their waters clear,
me, saying, “Son of man, take up a lamenta-
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tion for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him: And make their rivers run like oil,’
Says the Lord GOD.
‘You are like a young lion among
15 ‘When I make the land of Egypt desolate,
the nations,
And you are like a monster in the seas, And the country is destitute of all that
once filled it,
Bursting forth in your rivers, When I strike all who dwell in it,
Troubling the waters with your feet, Then they shall know that I am
And fouling their rivers.’
the LORD.
3 “Thus says the Lord GOD: 16 ‘This is the lamentation
‘I will therefore spread My net over you With which they shall lament her;
with a company of many people, The daughters of the nations shall
And they will draw you up in My net. lament her;
4 Then I will leave you on the land; They shall lament for her, for Egypt,
I will cast you out on the open fields, And for all her multitude,’
And cause to settle on you all the birds Says the Lord GOD.”
of the heavens. 17 It came to pass also in the twelfth year, on
And with you I will fill the beasts of the the fifteenth day of the month, that the word of
whole earth. the LORD came to me, saying:

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