Ezekiel 32:16
New International Version
“This is the lament they will chant for her. The daughters of the nations will chant it; for Egypt and all her hordes they will chant it, declares the Sovereign LORD.”

New Living Translation
Yes, this is the funeral song they will sing for Egypt. Let all the nations mourn. Let them mourn for Egypt and its hordes. I, the Sovereign LORD, have spoken!”

English Standard Version
This is a lamentation that shall be chanted; the daughters of the nations shall chant it; over Egypt, and over all her multitude, shall they chant it, declares the Lord GOD.”

Berean Standard Bible
This is the lament they will chant for her; the daughters of the nations will chant it. Over Egypt and all her multitudes they will chant it, declares the Lord GOD.”

King James Bible
This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament her: the daughters of the nations shall lament her: they shall lament for her, even for Egypt, and for all her multitude, saith the Lord GOD.

New King James Version
“This is the lamentation With which they shall lament her; The daughters of the nations shall lament her; They shall lament for her, for Egypt, And for all her multitude,” Says the Lord GOD.’ ”

New American Standard Bible
This is a song of mourning, and they shall sing it. The daughters of the nations shall sing it. Over Egypt and over all her hordes they shall sing it,” declares the Lord GOD.

NASB 1995
“This is a lamentation and they shall chant it. The daughters of the nations shall chant it. Over Egypt and over all her hordes they shall chant it,” declares the Lord GOD.

NASB 1977
“This is a lamentation and they shall chant it. The daughters of the nations shall chant it. Over Egypt and over all her multitude they shall chant it,” declares the Lord GOD.

Legacy Standard Bible
This is a lamentation, and they shall lament over it. The daughters of the nations shall lament over it. Over Egypt and over all her multitude they shall lament over it,” declares Lord Yahweh.

Amplified Bible
This is the dirge (funeral poem to be sung) and they shall sing it [for her]. The daughters of the nations shall sing it; for Egypt and for all her hordes they shall sing it,” says the Lord GOD.

Christian Standard Bible
“ ‘The daughters of the nations will chant that lament. They will chant it over Egypt and all its hordes. This is the declaration of the Lord GOD.’ ”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
This is a lament that will be chanted; the women of the nations will chant it. They will chant it over Egypt and all its hordes.” This is the declaration of the Lord GOD.

American Standard Version
This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament; the daughters of the nations shall lament therewith; over Egypt, and over all her multitude, shall they lament therewith, saith the Lord Jehovah.

Contemporary English Version
This is your warning, and it will be used as a funeral song by foreign women to mourn the death of your people. I, the LORD God, have spoken.

English Revised Version
This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament; the daughters of the nations shall lament therewith: for Egypt, and for all her multitude, shall they lament therewith, saith the Lord GOD.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"This is a funeral song. The people from the nations will sing this song. They will sing it as they mourn for Egypt and its many people," declares the Almighty LORD.

Good News Translation
This solemn warning will become a funeral song. The women of the nations will sing it to mourn for Egypt and all its people. I, the Sovereign LORD, have spoken."

International Standard Version
"This has been a lamentation. They will chant it, and the citizens of the nations will chant it, too. They'll chant it about Egypt and about all of its hordes."

Majority Standard Bible
This is the lament they will chant for her; the daughters of the nations will chant it. Over Egypt and all her multitudes they will chant it, declares the Lord GOD.?

NET Bible
This is a lament; they will chant it. The daughters of the nations will chant it. They will chant it over Egypt and over all her hordes, declares the sovereign LORD."

New Heart English Bible
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 GOD."

Webster's Bible Translation
This is the lamentation with which they shall lament her: the daughters of the nations shall lament her: they shall lament for her, even for Egypt, and for all her multitude, saith the Lord GOD.

World English Bible
“‘“This is the lamentation with which they will lament. The daughters of the nations will lament with this. They will lament with it over Egypt, and over all her multitude,” says the Lord Yahweh.’”
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
It [is] a lamentation, and they have lamented her, "" Daughters of the nations lament her, "" For Egypt, and for all her multitude, they lament her, "" A declaration of Lord YHWH.”

Young's Literal Translation
A lamentation it is, and they have lamented her, Daughters of the nations do lament her, For Egypt, and for all her multitude, they lament her, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.'

Smith's Literal Translation
This the lamentation and the daughters of the nations lamented her: they shall lament her for Egypt, and for all her multitude they shall lament her, says the Lord Jehovah.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
This is the lamentation, and they shall lament therewith: the daughters of the nations shall lament therewith: for Egypt, and for the multitude thereof they shall lament therewith, saith the Lord God.

Catholic Public Domain Version
This is the lamentation. And they shall lament it. The daughters of the Gentiles shall lament it. They shall lament it over Egypt and over its multitude, says the Lord God.”

New American Bible
This is the lamentation women of all nations will chant; They will raise it over Egypt; over all its hordes they will chant it— oracle of the Lord GOD.

New Revised Standard Version
This 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.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
This is the lamentation with which they shall lament her; the daughters of the nations shall lament over Egypt; and over all her wealth shall they lament, says the LORD God.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
This is the lamentation, and the daughters of the Gentiles lament over Egypt, and over all its wealth they shall lament, says THE LORD OF LORDS
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament; The daughters of the nations shall lament therewith; For Egypt, and for all her multitude, shall they lament therewith, Saith the Lord GOD.'

Brenton Septuagint Translation
There is a lamentation, and thou shalt utter it; and the daughters of the nations shall utter it, even for Egypt, and they shall mourn for it over all the strength thereof, saith the Lord God.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
A Lament for Pharaoh King of Egypt
15‘When I make the land of Egypt a desolation and empty it of all that filled it, when I strike down all who live there, then they will know that I am the LORD.’ 16This is the lament they will chant for her; the daughters of the nations will chant it. Over Egypt and all her multitudes they will chant it, declares the Lord GOD.”

Cross References
Isaiah 14:11-15
Your pomp has been brought down to Sheol, along with the music of your harps. Maggots are your bed and worms your blanket. / How you have fallen from heaven, O day star, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O destroyer of nations. / You said in your heart: “I will ascend to the heavens; I will raise my throne above the stars of God. I will sit on the mount of assembly, in the far reaches of the north. ...

Jeremiah 9:17-21
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Take note, and summon the wailing women; send for the most skillful among them. / Let them come quickly and take up a lament over us, that our eyes may overflow with tears, and our eyelids may gush with water. / For the sound of wailing is heard from Zion: ‘How devastated we are! How great is our shame! For we have abandoned the land because our dwellings have been torn down.’” ...

Lamentations 2:5-10
The Lord is like an enemy; He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces and destroyed her strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation for the Daughter of Judah. / He has laid waste His tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed His place of meeting. The LORD has made Zion forget her appointed feasts and Sabbaths. In His fierce anger He has despised both king and priest. / The Lord has rejected His altar; He has abandoned His sanctuary; He has delivered the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have raised a shout in the house of the LORD as on the day of an appointed feast. ...

Revelation 18:2-3
And he cried out in a mighty voice: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a lair for demons and a haunt for every unclean spirit, every unclean bird, and every detestable beast. / All the nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her immorality. The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown wealthy from the extravagance of her luxury.”

Isaiah 13:19-22
And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah. / She will never be inhabited or settled from generation to generation; no nomad will pitch his tent there, no shepherd will rest his flock there. / But desert creatures will lie down there, and howling creatures will fill her houses. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will leap about. ...

Jeremiah 51:37-43
Babylon will become a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals, an object of horror and scorn, without inhabitant. / They will roar together like young lions; they will growl like lion cubs. / While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast, and I will make them drunk so that they may revel; then they will fall asleep forever and never wake up, declares the LORD. ...

Revelation 18:21-24
Then a mighty angel picked up a stone the size of a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying: “With such violence the great city of Babylon will be cast down, never to be seen again. / And the sound of harpists and musicians, of flute players and trumpeters, will never ring out in you again. Nor will any craftsmen of any trade be found in you again, nor the sound of a millstone be heard in you again. / The light of a lamp will never shine in you again, and the voices of a bride and bridegroom will never call out in you again. For your merchants were the great ones of the earth, because all the nations were deceived by your sorcery.” ...

Isaiah 34:8-15
For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion. / Edom’s streams will be turned to tar, and her soil to sulfur; her land will become a blazing pitch. / It will not be quenched—day or night. Its smoke will ascend forever. From generation to generation it will lie desolate; no one will ever again pass through it. ...

Jeremiah 25:33-38
Those slain by the LORD on that day will be spread from one end of the earth to the other. They will not be mourned, gathered, or buried. They will be like dung lying on the ground. / Wail, you shepherds, and cry out; roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock. For the days of your slaughter have come; you will fall and be shattered like fine pottery. / Flight will evade the shepherds, and escape will elude the leaders of the flock. ...

Revelation 19:1-3
After this I heard a sound like the roar of a great multitude in heaven, shouting: “Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God! / For His judgments are true and just. He has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her immorality. He has avenged the blood of His servants that was poured out by her hand.” / And a second time they called out: “Hallelujah! Her smoke rises forever and ever.”

Isaiah 24:10-12
The city of chaos is shattered; every house is closed to entry. / In the streets they cry out for wine. All joy turns to gloom; rejoicing is exiled from the land. / The city is left in ruins; its gate is reduced to rubble.

Jeremiah 48:36-39
Therefore My heart laments like a flute for Moab; it laments like a flute for the men of Kir-heres, because the wealth they acquired has perished. / For every head is shaved and every beard is clipped; on every hand is a gash, and around every waist is sackcloth. / On all the rooftops of Moab and in the public squares, everyone is mourning; for I have shattered Moab like an unwanted jar,” declares the LORD. ...

Revelation 14:8
Then a second angel followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, who has made all the nations drink the wine of the passion of her immorality.”

Isaiah 23:1-4
This is the burden against Tyre: Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for Tyre is laid waste, without house or harbor. Word has reached them from the land of Cyprus. / Be silent, O dwellers of the coastland, you merchants of Sidon, whose traders have crossed the sea. / On the great waters came the grain of Shihor; the harvest of the Nile was the revenue of Tyre; she was the merchant of the nations. ...

Jeremiah 50:39-40
So the desert creatures and hyenas will live there and ostriches will dwell there. It will never again be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation. / As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah along with their neighbors,” declares the LORD, “no one will dwell there; no man will abide there.


Treasury of Scripture

This is the lamentation with which they shall lament her: the daughters of the nations shall lament her: they shall lament for her, even for Egypt, and for all her multitude, said the Lord GOD.

Ezekiel 32:2
Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.

Ezekiel 26:17
And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it!

2 Samuel 1:17
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son:

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Ezekiel 32
1. A lamentation for the fearful fall of Egypt
11. The sword of Babylon shall destroy it
17. It shall be brought down to hell, among all the uncircumcised nations














This is a lament
The word "lament" in Hebrew is "קִינָה" (qinah), which refers to a dirge or a song of mourning. In ancient Israel, laments were often composed to express profound grief and sorrow, typically over the death of individuals or the downfall of nations. This lament is not just a personal expression but a communal one, indicating the gravity of Egypt's fall. The use of lament highlights the seriousness of God's judgment and the deep sorrow that accompanies the loss of a once-great nation.

they will chant for her
The act of chanting, or "chant," suggests a rhythmic and repetitive vocal expression, often used in religious or solemn contexts. In the Hebrew tradition, chanting was a way to ensure that the message was remembered and internalized by the community. The "her" refers to Egypt, personifying the nation as a woman, which is a common biblical motif. This personification emphasizes the intimate and relational aspect of God's dealings with nations, as if they were individuals with whom He interacts directly.

the daughters of the nations
This phrase indicates that the lament is not limited to Israel but involves "the daughters of the nations," suggesting a broader, international recognition of Egypt's demise. In the ancient Near Eastern context, "daughters" often symbolized cities or smaller communities within a nation. This implies that the impact of Egypt's fall is so significant that it reverberates beyond its borders, affecting surrounding nations and their peoples.

will chant it
The repetition of "will chant it" underscores the certainty and inevitability of this lamentation. It is a prophetic declaration that the nations will indeed mourn Egypt's downfall. This repetition also serves to emphasize the communal and widespread nature of the lament, as it is not just a singular event but a collective response to God's judgment.

For Egypt and all her multitudes
"Egypt" here represents not only the geographical nation but also its cultural, political, and military might. The phrase "all her multitudes" refers to the vast population and the armies of Egypt, highlighting the comprehensive nature of the judgment. Historically, Egypt was a dominant power in the ancient world, known for its wealth, influence, and military strength. The mention of "multitudes" signifies that the judgment affects every aspect of Egyptian society, from the highest echelons of power to the common people.

they will chant it
The reiteration of this phrase serves to reinforce the prophetic certainty of the lament. It is a divine decree that the nations will respond to Egypt's fall with mourning. This repetition also highlights the solemnity and gravity of the situation, as the lament is not just a spontaneous reaction but a divinely orchestrated response to God's righteous judgment.

declares the Lord GOD
This phrase, "declares the Lord GOD," is a powerful affirmation of divine authority and sovereignty. In Hebrew, "Lord GOD" is "אֲדֹנָי יְהוִה" (Adonai Yahweh), emphasizing both the personal and covenantal name of God. This declaration assures the reader that the prophecy is not merely the words of Ezekiel but the authoritative pronouncement of God Himself. It underscores the certainty of the prophecy and the inevitability of its fulfillment, as it is backed by the ultimate authority of the Creator and Sustainer of all nations.

(16) Daughters of the nations is a common enough expression for the nations themselves, but is peculiarly appropriate in connection with a lamentation, since the formal mourning of the East was always performed by women.

Verse 16. - This is the lamentation, etc. The work of mourning for the dead was for the most part assigned to women (2 Samuel 1:24; Jeremiah 9:17; 2 Chronicles 35:25), and is therefore appropriately assigned to the daughters of the nations. He hears, as it were, their wailing over the fallen greatness of Egypt, even in the solitude of Tel-Abib.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
This
הִיא֙ (hî)
Pronoun - third person feminine singular
Strong's 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are

is the lament
וְק֣וֹנְנ֔וּהָ (wə·qō·wn·nū·hā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural | third person feminine singular
Strong's 7015: An elegy, dirge

they will chant for her;
קִינָ֥ה (qî·nāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 6969: To strike a, musical note, chant, wail

the daughters
בְּנ֥וֹת (bə·nō·wṯ)
Noun - feminine plural construct
Strong's 1323: A daughter

of the nations
הַגּוֹיִ֖ם (hag·gō·w·yim)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 1471: A foreign nation, a Gentile, a troop of animals, a flight of locusts

will chant it.
תְּקוֹנֵ֣נָּה (tə·qō·w·nên·nāh)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person feminine plural
Strong's 6969: To strike a, musical note, chant, wail

Over
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

Egypt
מִצְרַ֤יִם (miṣ·ra·yim)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 4714: Egypt -- a son of Ham, also his descendants and their country in Northwest Africa

and all
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

her multitudes
הֲמוֹנָהּ֙ (hă·mō·w·nāh)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 1995: A noise, tumult, crowd, disquietude, wealth

they will chant it,
תְּקוֹנֵ֣נָּה (tə·qō·w·nên·nāh)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person feminine plural
Strong's 6969: To strike a, musical note, chant, wail

declares
נְאֻ֖ם (nə·’um)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 5002: An oracle

the Lord
אֲדֹנָ֥י (’ă·ḏō·nāy)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 136: The Lord

GOD.”
יְהוִֽה׃ (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3069: YHWH


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