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16 This is a lamentation and it will be chanted;
    the daughters of the nations[a] will chant it.
They shall raise the lamentation
    over Egypt and all its hordes,
    says the Lord God.

17 Lamentation over Egypt. On the fifteenth day of the first month in the twelfth year, this word of the Lord came to me:

18 Son of man, raise a cry of lament
    over the hordes of Egypt
    and the daughters of mighty nations
and consign them to the world below
    with those who go down to the pit.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 32:16 Daughters of the nations: the pagan peoples.

16 “This is the lament(A) they will chant for her. The daughters of the nations will chant it; for Egypt and all her hordes they will chant it, declares the Sovereign Lord.”

Egypt’s Descent Into the Realm of the Dead

17 In the twelfth year, on the fifteenth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:(B) 18 “Son of man, wail for the hordes of Egypt and consign(C) to the earth below both her and the daughters of mighty nations, along with those who go down to the pit.(D)

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