Ezekiel 32:16-18

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¹⁶This is a lamentation; it shall be chanted.
The women of the nations shall chant it.
Over Egypt and all its hordes they shall chant it,
says the Lord God.

Dirge over Egypt

¹⁷In the twelfth year, in the first month,^[a] on the fifteenth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:

¹⁸Mortal, wail over the hordes of Egypt,
    and send them down,
with Egypt^[b] and the daughters of majestic nations,
    to the world below,
    with those who go down to the Pit.

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Footnotes

Ezekiel 32:17 Gk: Heb lacks in the first month
Ezekiel 32:18 Heb it

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