1 In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month, "Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, 2 ‘Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and tell him,
"You were likened to a young lion of the nations;
yet you are as a monster in the seas.
You broke out with your rivers,
and troubled the waters with your feet,
and fouled their rivers."
3 The Lord Yahweh says:
"I will spread out my net on you with a company of many peoples.
They will bring you up in my net.
4 I will leave you on the land.
I will cast you out on the open field,
and will cause all the birds of the sky to settle on you.
I will satisfy the animals of the whole earth with you.
5 I will lay your flesh on the mountains,
and fill the valleys with your height.
6 I will also water the land in which you swim with your blood,
even to the mountains.
The watercourses will be full of you.
7 When I extinguish you, I will cover the heavens
and make its stars dark.
I will cover the sun with a cloud,
and the moon won’t give its light.
8 I will make all the bright lights of the sky dark over you,
and set darkness on your land," says the Lord Yahweh.
9 "I will also trouble the hearts of many peoples,
when I bring your destruction among the nations,
into the countries which you have not known.
10 Yes, I will make many peoples amazed at you,
and their kings will be horribly afraid for you,
when I brandish my sword before them.
They will tremble at every moment,
every man for his own life,
in the day of your fall."
11 For the Lord Yahweh says:
"The sword of the king of Babylon will come on you.
12 I will cause your multitude to fall by the swords of the mighty.
They are all the ruthless of the nations.
They will bring the pride of Egypt to nothing,
and all its multitude will be destroyed.
13 I will destroy also all its animals from beside many waters.
The foot of man won’t trouble them any more,
nor will the hoofs of animals trouble them.
14 Then I will make their waters clear,
and cause their rivers to run like oil,"
says the Lord Yahweh.
15 "When I make the land of Egypt desolate and waste,
a land destitute of that of which it was full,
when I strike all those who dwell therein,
then they will know that I am Yahweh.
16 "‘"This is the lamentation with which they will lament. The daughters of the nations will lament with this. They will lament with it over Egypt, and over all her multitude," says the Lord Yahweh.’"
17 Also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day of the month, Yahweh’s word 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, to the lower parts of the earth, with those who go down into the pit. 19 Whom do you pass in beauty? Go down, and be laid with the uncircumcised. 20 They will fall among those who are slain by the sword. She is delivered to the sword. Draw her away with all her multitudes. 21 The strong among the mighty will speak to him out of the middle of Sheol with those who help him. They have gone down. The uncircumcised lie still, slain by the sword.
22 "Asshur is there with all her company. Her graves are all around her. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword, 23 whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit, and her company is around her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who caused terror in the land of the living.
24 "There is Elam and all her multitude around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who have gone down uncircumcised into the lower parts of the earth, who caused their terror in the land of the living, and have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit. 25 They have made Elam a bed among the slain with all her multitude. Her graves are around her, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for their terror was caused in the land of the living, and they have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit. He is put among those who are slain.
26 "There is Meshech, Tubal, and all their multitude. Their graves are around them, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for they caused their terror in the land of the living. 27 They will not lie with the mighty who are fallen of the uncircumcised, who have gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war and have laid their swords under their heads. Their iniquities are on their bones; for they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.
28 "But you will be broken among the uncircumcised, and will lie with those who are slain by the sword.
29 "There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes, who in their might are laid with those who are slain by the sword. They will lie with the uncircumcised, and with those who go down to the pit.
30 "There are the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Sidonians, who have gone down with the slain. They are put to shame in the terror which they caused by their might. They lie uncircumcised with those who are slain by the sword, and bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.
31 "Pharaoh will see them and will be comforted over all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army, slain by the sword," says the Lord Yahweh. 32 "For I have put his terror in the land of the living. He will be laid among the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude," says the Lord Yahweh.
1 En in die twaalfde jaar, in die twaalfde maand, op die eerste van die maand, het die woord van die HERE tot my gekom en gesê:
2 Mensekind, hef 'n klaaglied aan oor Farao, die koning van Egipte, en sê vir hom: Jong leeu onder die volke, verlore is jy! En jy was soos 'n draak in die groot water, en jy het uitgebreek in jou strome en die waters geroer met jou pote en die strome daarvan troebel gemaak.
3 So sê die Here HERE: So sal Ek dan my net oor jou uitsprei deur 'n vergadering van baie volke, en hulle sal jou optrek in my vangnet.
4 Dan sal Ek jou neerwerp op die land, jou wegslinger op die oop veld; en Ek sal al die voëls van die hemel op jou laat sit en die wilde diere van die hele aarde aan jou versadig.
5 En Ek sal jou vlees weggee op die berge en die dale vol maak met jou hoogheid.
6 En Ek sal jou stroomland natmaak met jou bloed tot by die berge; en die klowe sal vol word van jou.
7 En as Ek jou uitblus, sal Ek die hemel oordek en sy sterre verdonker; Ek sal die son met wolke oordek, en die maan sal sy lig nie laat skyn nie.
8 Al die skynende ligte aan die hemel, die sal Ek om jou ontwil duister maak, en Ek sal duisternis gee oor jou land, spreek die Here HERE.
9 En Ek sal die hart van baie volke bekommerd maak as Ek jou verbreking onder die nasies uitbring, na lande wat jy nie geken het nie.
10 En Ek sal maak dat baie volke oor jou verstom staan en hulle konings sal oor jou gril van skrik as Ek my swaard voor hulle swaai; en hulle sal elke oomblik sidder, elkeen vir sy lewe, op die dag van jou val.
11 Want so sê die Here HERE: Die swaard van die koning van Babel sal oor jou kom.
12 Ek sal jou menigte laat val deur swaarde van helde -- die geweldigste nasies, hulle almal; en hulle sal die prag van Egipte verwoes, en sy hele menigte sal verdelg word.
13 En Ek sal al sy vee laat omkom by die groot waters; en geen mensevoet sal dit weer laat roer nie en geen dier se kloue dit troebel maak nie.
14 Dan sal Ek hulle waters laat besink en hulle riviere laat vloei soos olie, spreek die Here HERE.
15 As Ek Egipteland 'n wildernis maak en die land woes lê, van sy volheid beroof, as Ek almal wat daarin woon, verslaan het, dan sal hulle weet dat Ek die HERE is.
16 'n Klaaglied is dit, en hulle moet dit sing; die dogters van die nasies moet dit sing; hulle moet dit sing oor Egipte en oor sy hele menigte, spreek die Here HERE.
17 En in die twaalfde jaar, op die vyftiende van die maand, het die woord van die HERE tot my gekom en gesê:
18 Mensekind, weeklaag oor die menigte van Egipte, en laat hulle neerdaal hy met die dogters van geweldige nasies in die onderste plekke van die aarde, by die wat in die kuil neergedaal het.
19 Bo wie is jy skoon? Daal af, en laat jou neerlê by die onbesnedenes.
20 Onder die wat deur die swaard verslaan is, sal hulle val; die swaard is aangegee; trek hom weg saam met sy hele menigte.
21 Die magtigste helde sal hom, met sy helpers, toespreek uit die doderyk uit: Hulle het neergedaal, hulle lê daar -- die onbesnedenes, verslaan deur die swaard.
22 Daar is Assur en sy hele menigte; hulle grafte is rondom hom; hulle is almal verslaan, geval deur die swaard;
23 wie se grafte gemaak is in die uithoeke van die kuil, en sy menigte is rondom sy graf; hulle is almal verslaan, geval deur die swaard, hulle wat skrik versprei het in die land van die lewendes.
24 Daar is Elam en sy hele menigte rondom sy graf; hulle is almal verslaan, geval deur die swaard, hulle wat onbesnede neergedaal het in die onderste plekke van die aarde, wat skrik voor hulle versprei het in die land van die lewendes en nou hulle skande dra by die wat in die kuil neergedaal het.
25 Onder die wat verslaan is, het hulle vir hom 'n bed gemaak saam met sy hele menigte; rondom hom is hulle grafte; hulle is almal onbesnede, verslaan deur die swaard, omdat skrik voor hulle versprei is in die land van die lewendes; en nou dra hulle hul skande by die wat in die kuil neergedaal het. Onder die wat verslaan is, is hy neergelê.
26 Daar is Meseg-Tubal en sy hele menigte; rondom hom is hulle grafte; hulle is almal onbesnede, verslaan deur die swaard, omdat hulle skrik voor hulle versprei het in die land van die lewendes.
27 Maar hulle lê nie by die helde wat geval het uit die onbesnedenes, wat na die doderyk neergedaal het saam met hulle oorlogswapens en wie se swaarde onder hulle hoofde gesit is nie; wie se ongeregtighede nogtans op hulle gebeente is, omdat die skrik vir die helde in die land van die lewendes was.
28 Jy sal ook verbreek word onder die onbesnedenes, en jy sal lê by die wat deur die swaard verslaan is.
29 Daar is Edom, sy konings en al sy vorste, wat ondanks hulle dapperheid neergelê is by die wat verslaan is deur die swaard; hulle lê by die onbesnedenes en by die wat in die kuil neergedaal het.
30 Daar is die vorste van die Noorde, hulle almal, en al die Sidoniërs wat neergedaal het saam met die wat verslaan is, en beskaamd staan ondanks die skrik deur hulle verwek vanweë hulle dapperheid; en nou lê hulle onbesnede by die wat verslaan is deur die swaard, en dra hulle skande by die wat in die kuil neergedaal het.
31 Farao sal hulle sien en hom troos oor sy hele menigte; deur die swaard verslaan is Farao en sy hele leër, spreek die Here HERE.
32 Want Ek het skrik vir hom versprei in die land van die lewendes; daarom sal hy neergelê word onder die onbesnedenes, by die wat verslaan is deur die swaard -- Farao en sy hele menigte, spreek die Here HERE.