Yehezkiel 32:16-18

32:16 This is a lament; they will chant it.

The daughters of the nations will chant it.

They will chant it over Egypt and over all her hordes,

declares the sovereign Lord.”

32:17 In the twelfth year, on the fifteenth day of the month, ¹  the word of the Lord came to me: 32:18 “Son of man, wail ²  over the horde of Egypt. Bring it down; ³  bring ⁴  her ⁵  and the daughters of powerful nations down to the lower parts of the earth, along with those who descend to the pit.

[32:17]  ¹ tn March 17, 585 b.c. The LXX adds “first month.”

[32:18]  ² tn The Hebrew verb is used as a response to death (Jer 9:17-19; Amos 5:16).

[32:18]  ³ sn Through this prophetic lament given by God himself, the prophet activates the judgment described therein. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:217, and L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:136-37.

[32:18]  ⁴ tn Heb “Bring him down, her and the daughters of the powerful nations, to the earth below.” The verb “bring down” appears in the Hebrew text only once. Because the verb takes several objects here, the repetition of the verb in the translation improves the English style.

[32:18]  ⁵ tn This apparently refers to personified Egypt.