3. This is what the Lord GOD says: “I have gathered many people together. Now I will throw my net over you. Then those people will pull you in.
4. Then I will drop you on the dry ground. I will throw you down in the field. I will let all the birds come and eat you. I will let wild animals from every place come and eat you until they are full.
5. I will scatter your body on the mountains. I will fill the valleys with your dead body.
6. I will pour your blood on the mountains, and it will soak down into the ground. The rivers will be full of you.
7. I will make you disappear. I will cover the sky and make the stars dark. I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon will not shine.
8. I will darken the lights in the sky over you. I will make your whole country dark.” This is what the Lord GOD said.
9. “I will make many people sad and upset when I bring an enemy to destroy you. Nations you don’t even know will be upset.
10. I will make many people shocked about you. Their kings will be terrified of you, when I swing my sword before them. They will shake with fear on the day you fall. Each king will be afraid for his own life.”
11. That will happen because of what the Lord GOD said: “The sword of the king of Babylon will come to fight against you.
12. I will use those soldiers to kill your people in battle. They come from the most terrible of the nations. They will destroy the things Egypt is proud of. The people of Egypt will be destroyed.
13. There are many animals by the rivers in Egypt. I will also destroy all those animals. People will not make the waters muddy with their feet anymore. The hoofs of cattle will not make the water muddy anymore.
14. So I will make the water in Egypt calm. I will cause their rivers to run slowly—they will be slick like oil.” This is what the Lord GOD said.
15. “I will make the land of Egypt empty. That land will lose everything. I will punish all the people living in Egypt. Then they will know that I am the Lord!
16. “This is a sad song that people will sing for Egypt. The daughters in other nations will sing this sad song. They will sing it as a sad song about Egypt and all its people.” This is what the Lord GOD said.
17. On the fifteenth day of that month in the twelfth year of exile, the word of the Lord came to me. He said,
18. “Son of man, cry for the people of Egypt. Lead Egypt and the daughters from powerful nations to the grave. Lead them to the world below where they will be with the other people who went down into that deep hole.
19. “Egypt, you are no better than anyone else! Go down to the place of death. Go lie down with those foreigners.
20. “Egypt will go to be with all the other men who were killed in battle. The enemy has pulled her and all her people away.
21. “Strong and powerful men were killed in battle. Those foreigners went down to the place of death. And from that place, those who were killed will speak to Egypt and his helpers.
22-23. “Assyria and all its army are there in the place of death. Their graves are deep down in that deep hole. All the Assyrian soldiers were killed in battle, and their graves are all around his grave. When they were alive, they made people afraid, but they were all killed in battle.
24. “Elam is there and all its army is around her grave. All of them were killed in battle. Those foreigners went deep down into the ground. When they were alive, they made people afraid. But they carried their shame with them down to that deep hole.