⁵ My soul is among the dead, like those in the underworld, to whom you give no more thought; for they are cut off from your care.

⁸ They took away from him help and right, and who gave a thought to his fate? for he was cut off from the land of the living: he came to his death for the sin of my people.

²² And as for me, I said in my fear, I am cut off from before your eyes; but you gave ear to the voice of my prayer, when my cry went up to you.

¹⁸ Son of man, let your voice be loud in sorrow for the people of Egypt and send them down, even you and the daughters of the nations; I will send them down into the lowest parts of the earth, with those who go down into the underworld.

¹⁹ Are you more beautiful than any? go down, and take your rest among those without circumcision,

²⁰ Among those who have been put to the sword: they will give a resting-place with them to all their people.

²¹ The strong among the great ones will say to him from the underworld, Are you more beautiful than any? go down, you and your helpers, and take your rest among those without circumcision, and those who have been put to the sword.

²² There is Asshur and all her army, round about her last resting-place: all of them put to death by the sword:

²³ Whose resting-places are in the inmost parts of the underworld, who were a cause of fear in the land of the living.

²⁴ There is Elam and all her people, round about her last resting-place: all of them put to death by the sword, who have gone down without circumcision into the lowest parts of the earth, who were a cause of fear in the land of the living, and are put to shame with those who go down to the underworld:

²⁵ They have made a bed for her among the dead, and all her people are round about her resting-place: all of them without circumcision, put to death with the sword; for they were a cause of fear in the land of the living, and are put to shame with those who go down to the underworld: they have been given a place among those who have been put to the sword.

²⁶ There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her people, round about her last resting-place: all of them without circumcision, put to death by the sword; for they were a cause of fear in the land of the living.

²⁷ And they have been put to rest with the fighting men who came to their end in days long past, who went down to the underworld with their instruments of war, placing their swords under their heads, and their body-covers are over their bones; for their strength was a cause of fear in the land of the living.

²⁸ But you will have your bed among those without circumcision, and will be put to rest with those who have been put to death with the sword.

²⁹ There is Edom, her kings and all her princes, who have been given a resting-place with those who were put to the sword: they will be resting among those without circumcision, even with those who go down to the underworld.

³⁰ There are the chiefs of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, who have gone down with those who have been put to the sword: they are shamed on account of all the fear caused by their strength; they are resting there without circumcision, among those who have been put to the sword, and are put to shame with those who go down to the underworld.

³¹ Pharaoh will see them and be comforted on account of all his people: even Pharaoh and all his army, put to death by the sword, says the Lord.

³² For he put his fear in the land of the living: and he will be put to rest among those without circumcision, with those who have been put to death with the sword, even Pharaoh and all his people, says the Lord.

¹⁰ I said, In the quiet of my days I am going down into the underworld: the rest of my years are being taken away from me.

¹¹ I said, I will not see the Lord, even the Lord in the land of the living: I will not see man again or those living in the world.

¹² My resting-place is pulled up and taken away from me like a herdsman's tent: my life is rolled up like a linen-worker's thread; I am cut off from the cloth on the frame: from day even to night you give me up to pain.

⁹ The underworld is moved at your coming: the shades of the dead are awake before you, even the strong ones of the earth; all the kings of the world have got up from their seats.

¹⁰ They all make answer and say to you, Have you become feeble like us? have you been made even as we are?

¹¹ Your pride has gone down into the underworld, and the noise of your instruments of music; the worms are under you, and your body is covered with them.

¹² How great is your fall from heaven, O shining one, son of the morning! How are you cut down to the earth, low among the dead bodies!

²³ Who kept us in mind when we were in trouble: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

¹⁶ The heat of your wrath has gone over me; I am broken by your cruel punishments.

¹² I have gone from men's minds and memory like a dead man; I am like a broken vessel.

¹⁰ If he goes on his way, shutting a man up and putting him to death, who may make him go back from his purpose?

⁹ If only he would be pleased to put an end to me; and would let loose his hand, so that I might be cut off!

²⁹ So it came about that when God sent destruction on the towns of the lowland, he kept his word to Abraham, and sent Lot safely away when he put an end to the towns where he was living.

¹ And God kept Noah in mind, and all the living things and the cattle which were with him in the ark: and God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters went down.