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Ezekiel 32:15-17
Contemporary English Version
Ezekiel 32:15-17
Contemporary English Version
15 Egypt will become a barren wasteland, and no living thing will ever survive there. Then you and your people will know that I am the Lord.
16 This is your warning, and it will be used as a funeral song by foreign women to mourn the death of your people. I, the Lord God, have spoken.
A Sad Ending for Egypt
17 On the fifteenth day of that same month,[a] the Lord said:
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- 32.17 that same month: See verse 1.
Ezekiel 32:15-17
New International Version
Ezekiel 32:15-17
New International Version
15 When I make Egypt desolate
and strip the land of everything in it,
when I strike down all who live there,
then they will know that I am the Lord.(A)’
16 “This is the lament(B) 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:(C)
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