16. “This is the funeral song people will sing for Egypt. The women of the nations will sing it; they will sing a funeral song for Egypt and all its people, says the Lord God.”
17. It was in the twelfth year of our captivity, on the fifteenth day of the month. The Lord spoke his word to me, saying:
18. “Human, cry for the people of Egypt. Bring down Egypt, together with the women of the powerful nations; bring them down to the place of the dead below the earth to join those who go to the place of the dead.
19. Say to them: ‘Are you more beautiful than others? Go lie down in death with those who are unclean.’
20. The Egyptians will fall among those killed in war. The sword is ready; the enemy will drag Egypt and all her people away.
21. From the place of the dead the leaders of the mighty ones will speak about the king of Egypt and the nations which help him: ‘The unclean, those killed in war, have come down here and lie dead.’
22. “Assyria and all its army lie dead there. The graves of their soldiers are all around. All were killed in war,
23. and their graves were put in the deepest parts of the place of the dead. Assyria’s army lies around its grave. When they lived on earth, they frightened people, but now all of them have been killed in war.