¹⁸ “‘Which of the trees of Eden can be compared with you in splendor and majesty? Yet you, too, will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the earth below; you will lie among the uncircumcised,^(A) with those killed by the sword.

“‘This is Pharaoh and all his hordes, declares the Sovereign Lord.’”

¹⁹ Say to them, ‘Are you more favored than others? Go down and be laid among the uncircumcised.’^(A)

²¹ From within the realm of the dead^(A) the mighty leaders will say of Egypt and her allies, ‘They have come down and they lie with the uncircumcised,^(B) with those killed by the sword.’

²⁵ A bed is made for her among the slain, with all her hordes around her grave. All of them are uncircumcised,^(A) killed by the sword. Because their terror had spread in the land of the living, they bear their shame with those who go down to the pit; they are laid among the slain.

²⁷ But they do not lie with the fallen warriors of old,^[a](A) who went down to the realm of the dead with their weapons of war—their swords placed under their heads and their shields^[b] resting on their bones—though these warriors also had terrorized the land of the living.