“And so it was also in the twelfth year, on the fifteenth day of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me saying, “Son of man, wail for the numerous people of Egypt, and cast them down, even her and the daughters of the famous nations, into the nether parts of the earth, with those who go down into the pit. ‘Whom do you surpass in beauty? Go down and be laid with the uncircumcised.' They will fall in the midst of those who are slain with the sword. She is delivered to the sword. They have drawn her away and all her numerous people.”
Egypt's boasts were ended. She had exalted herself and her beauty, but where was it now? She lay in the grave with the lowest of the low, the uncircumcised nations. Such was her beauty. And she and other famous nations shared Sheol together. Her people were numerous, but the sword had delivered them to the pit, drawn there by those slain by the sword before her. The dead attract the dead, and Egypt as it was was dead.
‘Cast them down.' Ezekiel would do it by his prophecy and by his lament.
‘Even her and the daughters of the famous nations.' This must represent Egypt's allies. They all descend together. But it may be that we should translate ‘you and the daughters of the famous nations' (same Hebrew text but different vowel pointing) interpreting it of the mourning women of Ezekiel 32:16 as aiding Ezekiel in his mourning.
‘Whom do you surpass in beauty? Go down and be laid with the uncircumcised.' The question is put by Ezekiel in his lament.