²¹ From within the realm of the dead^(A) the mighty leaders will say of Egypt and her allies, ‘They have come down and they lie with the uncircumcised,^(B) with those killed by the sword.’

²⁷ But they do not lie with the fallen warriors of old,^[a](A) who went down to the realm of the dead with their weapons of war—their swords placed under their heads and their shields^[b] resting on their bones—though these warriors also had terrorized the land of the living.