16. ‘This is the lamentation, and they shall lament her, the daughters of the nations lament her. Over Mitsrayim and over all her crowd they shall lament her,’ declares the Master יהוה.”
17. And it came to be in the twelfth year, on the fifteenth of the month, that the word of יהוה came to me, saying,
18. “Son of man, wail over the crowd of Mitsrayim, and send them down to the depths of the earth, her and the daughters of the mighty nations, with those going down to the Pit.
19. ‘Are you more pleasant than others? Go down, be placed with the uncircumcised.’
20. “In the midst of those slain by the sword they fall. She shall be given to the sword, drawing her and all her crowds.
21. “The mightiest among the mighty speak to him out of the midst of the grave with those who help him, ‘They have gone down, they lie with the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.’
22. “Ashshur is there, and all her assembly, with their graves all around her, all of them slain, fallen by the sword,
23. whose graves are set in the sides of the Pit, and her assembly is all around her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, because they instilled fear in the land of the living.