“In the twelfth year, on the fifteenth day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,”
Ezekiel 32:17 (BSB)
Context Reading
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.” 17In the twelfth year, on the fifteenth day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 18“Son of man, wail for the multitudes of Egypt, and consign her and the daughters of the mighty nations to the depths of the earth with those who descend to the Pit: 19Whom do you surpass in beauty? Go down and be placed with the uncircumcised!