0 SAB Ezekiel 32

Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you, saith the Lord GOD. 11:8

Trivia: In Ezekiel 39, who did God invite to eat flesh and get drunk with blood?

Ezekiel

CHAPTER 32

I'll water the land with your blood
32:1-16

1And 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 unto me, saying,

On the first day of the twelfth month of the twelfth year, [1]

the word of God came to me, saying,

2 Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.

Son of man, sing this lamentation for the Pharaoh,

You are like a young lion and a whale.

3Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will therefore spread out my net over thee with a company of many people; and they shall bring thee up in my net.

So I'll catch you in my net.

4Then will I leave thee upon the land, I will cast thee forth upon the open field, and will cause all the fowls of the heaven to remain upon thee, and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with thee.

I'll leave you on dry land,

and let the birds and beasts eat you.

5And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height.

I'll dump your flesh on the mountains.

6I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest, even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of thee.

I'll water the land with your blood.

Your blood will fill the rivers. [2]

7 And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.

8All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD.

I'll cover the heaven,

make the stars dark, [3]

cover the sun with a cloud,

and stop the moon from making light.

9I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not known.

I'll vex hearts and destroy nations.

10 Yea, I will make many people amazed at thee, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for thee, 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 thy fall.

I'll show my sword and kings will tremble.

11For thus saith the Lord GOD; The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee.

The sword of the king of Babylon will come upon you.

12By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall, the terrible of the nations, all of them: and they shall spoil the pomp of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed.

The swords of the mighty will kill many of your people.

13I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside the great waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them.

I'll kill your animals.

14Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord GOD.

I'll cause floods.

15When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and the country shall be destitute of that whereof it was full, when I shall smite all them that dwell therein, then shall they know that I am the LORD.

16 This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament her: the daughters of the nations shall lament her: they shall lament for her, even for Egypt, and for all her multitude, saith the Lord GOD.

I'll destroy your land and kill all your people.

Then they'll know that I'm God. [4]

Terror in the land of the living
32:17-32

17It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

In the twelfth year on the fifteenth day of the month, [5]

the word of God came to me, saying,

18 Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.

Son of man, wail for the people of Egypt.

19 Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised.

You may be nice-looking,

but you will be buried with uncircumcised people,

20They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the sword: she is delivered to the sword: draw her and all her multitudes.

who will be killed with the sword.

21The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword.

22 Asshur is there and all her company: his graves are about him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword:

Mighty men will speak in hell,

where their bodies will lie uncircumcised.

23 Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the living.

24 There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which caused their terror in the land of the living; yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit.

25 They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword: though their terror was caused in the land of the living, yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of them that be slain.

26 There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though they caused their terror in the land of the living.

Dead bodies will be everywhere,

caused by terror in the land of the living.

27 And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.

They won't be buried with the mighty who have been killed by uncircumcised men,

who have gone down to hell with their weapons,

with swords as their pillows and iniquities in their bones,

after causing terror in the land of the living.

28Yea, thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shalt lie with them that are slain with the sword.

29 There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes, which with their might are laid by them that were slain by the sword: they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with them that go down to the pit.

30 There be the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, which are gone down with the slain; with their terror they are ashamed of their might; and they lie uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword, and bear their shame with them that go down to the pit.

You'll be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised,

and lie with those who were killed with the sword.

31 Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword, saith the Lord GOD.

Pharaoh and his army will be killed with the sword.

32For I have caused my terror in the land of the living: and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that are slain with the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.

Because I've caused terror in the land of the living.

And the Pharaoh will lie with uncircumcised men who have died with the sword.

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