17 In the twelfth year, on the fifteenth of the month, the word of the Lord came to me saying,
18 "Son of man, wail for the hordes of Egypt and bring it down, her and the daughters of the powerful nations, to the nether world, with those who go down to the pit;
19 'Whom do you surpass in beauty? Go down and make your bed with the uncircumcised.'
20 They shall fall in the midst of those who are slain by the sword. She is given over to the sword; they have drawn her and all her hordes away.
21 The strong among the mighty ones shall speak of him and his helpers from the midst of Sheol, 'They have gone down, they lie still, the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.'
22 "Assyria is there and all her company; her graves are round about her. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword,
23 whose graves are set in the remotest parts of the pit and her company is round about her grave. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword, who spread terror in the land of the living.