¹ It happened in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first [day] of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

² Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and tell him, You were likened to a young lion of the nations: yet you are as a monster in the seas; and you did break forth with your rivers, and troubled the waters with your feet, and fouled their rivers.

³ Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will spread out my net on you with a company of many peoples; and they shall bring you up in my net.

⁴ I will leave you on the land, I will cast you forth on the open field, and will cause all the birds of the sky to settle on you, and I will satisfy the animals of the whole earth with you.

⁵ I will lay your flesh on the mountains, and fill the valleys with your height.

⁶ I will also water with your blood the land in which you swim, even to the mountains; and the watercourses shall be full of you.

⁷ When I shall extinguish you, I will cover the heavens, and make its stars dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light.

⁸ All the bright lights of the sky will I make dark over you, and set darkness on your land, says the Lord Yahweh.

⁹ I will also trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I shall bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries which you have not known.

¹⁰ Yes, I will make many peoples amazed at you, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for you, when I shall brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of your fall.

¹¹ For thus says the Lord Yahweh: The sword of the king of Babylon shall come on you.

¹² By the swords of the mighty will I cause your multitude to fall; the terrible of the nations are they all: and they shall bring to nothing the pride of Egypt, and all its multitude shall be destroyed.

¹³ I will destroy also all its animals from beside many waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of animals trouble them.

¹⁴ Then will I make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to run like oil, says the Lord Yahweh.

¹⁵ When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate and waste, a land destitute of that of which it was full, when I shall strike all those who dwell therein, then shall they know that I am Yahweh.

¹⁶ This is the lamentation with which they shall lament; the daughters of the nations shall lament therewith; over Egypt, and over all her multitude, shall they lament therewith, says the Lord Yahweh.

¹⁷ It happened also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth [day] of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

¹⁸ Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, to the lower parts of the earth, with those who go down into the pit.

¹⁹ Whom do you pass in beauty? Go down, and be laid with the uncircumcised.

²⁰ They shall fall in the midst of those who are slain by the sword: she is delivered to the sword; draw her away and all her multitudes.

²¹ The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of Sheol with those who help him: they are gone down, they lie still, even the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.

²² Asshur is there and all her company; her graves are all around her; all of them slain, fallen by the sword;

²³ whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit, and her company is around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who caused terror in the land of the living.

²⁴ There is Elam and all her multitude around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who are gone down uncircumcised into the lower parts of the earth, who caused their terror in the land of the living, and have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit.

²⁵ They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude; her graves are around her; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for their terror was caused in the land of the living, and they have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of those who are slain.

²⁶ There is Meshech, Tubal, and all their multitude; their graves are around them; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for they caused their terror in the land of the living.

²⁷ They shall not lie with the mighty who are fallen of the uncircumcised, who are gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war, and have laid their swords under their heads, and their iniquities are on their bones; for [they were] the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.

²⁸ But you shall be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shall lie with those who are slain by the sword.

²⁹ There is Edom, her kings and all her princes, who in their might are laid with those who are slain by the sword: they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with those who go down to the pit.

³⁰ There are the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Sidonians, who are gone down with the slain; in the terror which they caused by their might they are put to shame; and they lie uncircumcised with those who are slain by the sword, and bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.

³¹ Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army, slain by the sword, says the Lord Yahweh.

³² For I have put his terror in the land of the living; and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the Lord Yahweh.

¹ David spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul:

² and he said, "Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer, even mine;

³ God, my rock, in him I will take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge. My savior, you save me from violence.

⁴ I will call on Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised: So shall I be saved from my enemies.

⁵ For the waves of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

⁶ The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death caught me.

⁷ In my distress I called on Yahweh. Yes, I called to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry [came] into his ears.

⁸ Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations of heaven quaked and were shaken, because he was angry.

⁹ Smoke went up out of his nostrils. Fire out of his mouth devoured. Coals were kindled by it.

¹⁰ He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet.

¹¹ He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he was seen on the wings of the wind.

¹² He made darkness pavilions around himself: gathering of waters, and thick clouds of the skies.

¹³ At the brightness before him, coals of fire were kindled.

¹⁴ Yahweh thundered from heaven. The Most High uttered his voice.

¹⁵ He sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and confused them.

¹⁶ Then the channels of the sea appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare by the rebuke of Yahweh, At the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

¹⁷ He sent from on high and he took me. He drew me out of many waters.

¹⁸ He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me, for they were too mighty for me.

¹⁹ They came on me in the day of my calamity, but Yahweh was my support.

²⁰ He also brought me out into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.

²¹ Yahweh rewarded me according to my righteousness. He rewarded me according to the cleanness of my hands.

²² For I have kept the ways of Yahweh, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

²³ For all his ordinances were before me. As for his statutes, I did not depart from them.

²⁴ I was also perfect toward him. I kept myself from my iniquity.

²⁵ Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness, According to my cleanness in his eyesight.

²⁶ With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man you will show yourself perfect.

²⁷ With the pure you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.

²⁸ You will save the afflicted people, But your eyes are on the haughty, that you may bring them down.

²⁹ For you are my lamp, Yahweh. Yahweh will light up my darkness.

³⁰ For by you, I run against a troop. By my God, I leap over a wall.

³¹ As for God, his way is perfect. The word of Yahweh is tested. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

³² For who is God, besides Yahweh? Who is a rock, besides our God?

³³ God is my strong fortress. He makes my way perfect.

³⁴ He makes his feet like hinds' [feet], and sets me on my high places.

³⁵ He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of brass.

³⁶ You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your gentleness has made me great.

³⁷ You have enlarged my steps under me. My feet have not slipped.

³⁸ I have pursued my enemies and destroyed them. I didn't turn again until they were consumed.

³⁹ I have consumed them, and struck them through, so that they can't arise. Yes, they have fallen under my feet.

⁴⁰ For you have armed me with strength for the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.

⁴¹ You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.

⁴² They looked, but there was none to save; even to Yahweh, but he didn't answer them.

⁴³ Then I beat them as small as the dust of the earth. I crushed them as the mire of the streets, and spread them abroad.

⁴⁴ You also have delivered me from the strivings of my people. You have kept me to be the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known will serve me.

⁴⁵ The foreigners will submit themselves to me. As soon as they hear of me, they will obey me.

⁴⁶ The foreigners will fade away, and will come trembling out of their close places.

⁴⁷ Yahweh lives! Blessed be my rock! Exalted be God, the rock of my salvation,

⁴⁸ even the God who executes vengeance for me, who brings down peoples under me,

⁴⁹ who brings me away from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man.

⁵⁰ Therefore I will give thanks to you, Yahweh, among the nations. Will sing praises to your name.

⁵¹ He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his seed, forevermore."