¹⁶ “This is a sad song that people will sing for Egypt. The daughters in other nations will sing this sad song. They will sing it as a sad song about Egypt and all its people.” This is what the Lord God said.

Egypt to Be Destroyed

¹⁷ On the fifteenth day of that month in the twelfth year of exile, the word of the Lord came to me. He said, ¹⁸ “Son of man, cry for the people of Egypt. Lead Egypt and the daughters from powerful nations to the grave. Lead them to the world below where they will be with the other people who went down into that deep hole.