Ezekiel 32:16-18

New Living Translation

¹⁶Yes, this is the funeral song
    they will sing for Egypt.
Let all the nations mourn.
    Let them mourn for Egypt and its hordes.
    I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken!”

Egypt Falls into the Pit

¹⁷On March 17,^[a] during the twelfth year, another message came to me from the Lord: ¹⁸“Son of man, weep for the hordes of Egypt and for the other mighty nations.^[b] For I will send them down to the world below in company with those who descend to the pit.

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Footnotes

32:17 Hebrew On the fifteenth day of the month, presumably in the twelfth month of the ancient Hebrew lunar calendar (see 32:1). This would put this message at the end of King Jehoiachin’s twelfth year of captivity, on March 17, 585 B.c.; also see note on 1:1. Greek version reads On the fifteenth day of the first month, which would put this message on April 27, 586 B.c., at the beginning of Jehoiachin’s twelfth year.
32:18 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.