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And they shall bring thee up in My net.

⁴And I will cast thee upon the land,

I will hurl thee upon the open field,

And will cause all the fowls of the heaven to settle upon thee,

And I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with thee.

⁵And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains,

And fill the valleys with thy foulness.

⁶I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest, even to the mountains;

And the channels shall be full of thee.

⁷And when I shall extinguish thee, I will cover the heaven,

And make the stars thereof black;

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 black over thee,

And set darkness upon thy land,

Saith the Lord God.

⁹I will also vex the hearts of many peoples, when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not known. ¹⁰Yea, I will make many peoples appalled 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.

¹¹For thus saith the Lord God: The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee. ¹²By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall;

The terrible of the nations are they all;

And they shall spoil the pride of Egypt,

And all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed.

¹³I will destroy also all the beasts thereof

From beside many waters;

Neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more,

Nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them.

¹⁴Then will I make their waters to settle,

And cause their rivers to run like oil,

Saith the Lord God.

¹⁵When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate and waste,

A land 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.

¹⁶This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament;

The daughters of the nations shall lament therewith;

For Egypt, and for all her multitude, shall they lament therewith,

Saith the Lord God.'

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

¹⁹Whom dost thou pass in beauty?

Go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised.

²⁰They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the sword; she is delivered to the sword; draw her down and all her multitudes. ²¹The strong among the mighty shall speak of him out of the midst of the nether-world with them that helped

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