Ezekiel 32:19
New International Version
Say to them, ‘Are you more favored than others? Go down and be laid among the uncircumcised.’

New Living Translation
Say to them, ‘O Egypt, are you lovelier than the other nations? No! So go down to the pit and lie there among the outcasts.’

English Standard Version
‘Whom do you surpass in beauty? Go down and be laid to rest with the uncircumcised.’

Berean Standard Bible
Whom do you surpass in beauty? Go down and be placed with the uncircumcised!

King James Bible
Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised.

New King James Version
‘Whom do you surpass in beauty? Go down, be placed with the uncircumcised.’

New American Standard Bible
‘Whom do you surpass in beauty? Go down and make your bed with the uncircumcised.’

NASB 1995
‘Whom do you surpass in beauty? Go down and make your bed with the uncircumcised.’

NASB 1977
‘Whom do you surpass in beauty? Go down and make your bed with the uncircumcised.’

Legacy Standard Bible
‘Whom do you surpass in beauty? Go down and make your bed with the uncircumcised.’

Amplified Bible
‘Whom [among them] do you surpass in beauty? Go down and make your bed with the uncircumcised (the barbaric, the boorish, the crude).’

Christian Standard Bible
Who do you surpass in loveliness? Go down and be laid to rest with the uncircumcised!

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Who do you surpass in loveliness? Go down and be laid to rest with the uncircumcised!

American Standard Version
Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Come down from the sweet waters, and lie down with the uncircumcised

Contemporary English Version
Say to them: You may be more beautiful than the people of other nations, but you will also die and join the godless in the world below.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Whom dost thou excel in beauty? go down and sleep with the uncircumcised.

English Revised Version
Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"[Tell them,] 'Are you more beautiful than anyone else? Go down and join the godless people.'

Good News Translation
Say to them: "Do you think you are more beautiful than anyone else? You will go down to the world of the dead and lie there among the ungodly.

International Standard Version
"So who's more beautiful than you? You'll be buried with the uncircumcised.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Whom dost thou pass in beauty? Go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised.

Literal Standard Version
Whom have you surpassed in beauty? Go down, and be laid with [the] uncircumcised.

Majority Standard Bible
Whom do you surpass in beauty? Go down and be placed with the uncircumcised!

New American Bible
Whom do you excel in beauty? Go down! Be laid to rest with the uncircumcised!

NET Bible
Say to them, 'Whom do you surpass in beauty? Go down and be laid to rest with the uncircumcised!'

New Revised Standard Version
“Whom do you surpass in beauty? Go down! Be laid to rest with the uncircumcised!”

New Heart English Bible
'Whom do you pass in beauty? Go down, and be laid with the uncircumcised.'

Webster's Bible Translation
Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised.

World English Bible
Whom do you pass in beauty? Go down, and be laid with the uncircumcised.

Young's Literal Translation
Than whom hast thou been more pleasant? Go down, and be laid with the uncircumcised.

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Context
Egypt Cast into the Pit
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! 20They will fall among those slain by the sword. The sword is appointed! Let them drag her away along with all her multitudes.…

Cross References
Jeremiah 9:25
"Behold, the days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I will punish all who are circumcised yet uncircumcised:

Jeremiah 9:26
Egypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon, Moab, and all the inhabitants of the desert who clip the hair of their temples. For all these nations are uncircumcised, and the whole house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart."

Ezekiel 31:18
Who then is like you in glory and greatness among the trees of Eden? You also will be brought down to the depths of the earth to be with the trees of Eden. You will lie among the uncircumcised, with those slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, declares the Lord GOD.'"

Ezekiel 32:21
Mighty chiefs will speak from the midst of Sheol about Egypt and her allies: 'They have come down and lie with the uncircumcised, with those slain by the sword.'

Ezekiel 32:24
Elam is there with all her multitudes around her grave. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword--those who went down uncircumcised to the earth below, who once spread their terror in the land of the living. They bear their disgrace with those who descend to the Pit.

Ezekiel 32:26
Meshech and Tubal are there with all their multitudes, with their graves all around them. All of them are uncircumcised, slain by the sword, because they spread their terror in the land of the living.


Treasury of Scripture

Whom do you pass in beauty? go down, and be you laid with the uncircumcised.

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Ezekiel 27:3,4
And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty…

Ezekiel 28:12-17
Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty…

Ezekiel 31:2,18
Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness? …

go

Isaiah 14:9-15
Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations…

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Ezekiel 32:21,24,29,30
The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword…

Ezekiel 28:10
Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.

1 Samuel 17:26,36
And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God? …

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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














(19) With the uncircumcised.--See Note on Ezekiel 28:10. All question as to the use of circumcision among the Egyptians is out of place; the word is simply used as the ordinary phrase for the heathen.

Verse 19. - Whom dost thou pass in beauty? The lamentation, as might be expected from Ezekiel's standpoint, is an illustration of irony and triumph rather than of sorrow. The question implies a negative answer. Glorious as Egypt had been, other nations had equaled her. They had passed away, and so should she. With the uncircumcised. The words, as in Ezekiel 31:18, suggest the thought that Israel, so far as it was faithful to its calling, circumcised in heart as well as flesh (Jeremiah 9:26), had a higher and happier dwelling in Hades than the uncircumcised heathen. As the Egyptians practiced circumcision, the language of the prophet had a special significance. Their place in Hades was among the heathen to whom that hereto was unknown.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
‘Whom
מִמִּ֖י (mim·mî)
Preposition-m | Interrogative
Strong's 4310: Who?, whoever, in oblique construction with prefix, suffix

do you surpass in beauty?
נָעָ֑מְתָּ (nā·‘ā·mə·tā)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 5276: To be pleasant, delightful, or lovely

Go down
רְדָ֥ה (rə·ḏāh)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's 3381: To come or go down, descend

and be placed
וְהָשְׁכְּבָ֖ה (wə·hā·šə·kə·ḇāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hofal - Imperative - masculine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's 7901: To lie down

with
אֶת־ (’eṯ-)
Preposition
Strong's 854: Nearness, near, with, by, at, among

the uncircumcised!
עֲרֵלִֽים׃ (‘ă·rê·lîm)
Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's 6189: Having foreskin (uncircumcised)


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