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 shall 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 shall be horribly afraid for you, 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 your fall.
11. For thus says the Lord Yahweh: The sword of the king of Babylon shall come on you.
12. By the swords of the mighty will I cause your multitude to fall; they are all the ruthless of the nations: and they shall bring to nothing the pride of Egypt, and all its multitude shall be destroyed.
13. I will destroy also all its animals from beside many waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of animals trouble them.
14. Then will I make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to run like oil, says the Lord Yahweh.
15. When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate and waste, a land destitute of that of which it was full, when I shall strike all those who dwell therein, then shall they know that I am Yahweh.
16. This is the lamentation with which they shall lament; the daughters of the nations shall lament therewith; over Egypt, and over all her multitude, shall they lament therewith, says the Lord Yahweh.
17. Also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day of the month, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,