The word
of the Lord came again unto me, saying,
02 Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the
Lord God; Howl ye, Woe worth the day!
03 For the day is near, even the day of the Lord
is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of
the heathen.
04 And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great
pain shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall
fall in Egypt, and they shall take away her
multitude, and her foundations shall be broken
down.
05 Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the
mingled people, and Chub, and the men of the land
that is in league, shall fall with them by the
sword.
06 Thus saith the Lord; They also that uphold
Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power
shall come down: from the tower of Syene shall
they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord God.
07 And they shall be desolate in the midst of the
countries that are desolate, and her cities shall
be in the midst of the cities that are wasted.
08 And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I
have set a fire in Egypt, and when all her
helpers shall be destroyed.
09 In that day shall messengers go forth from me
in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid,
and great pain shall come upon them, as in the
day of Egypt: for, lo, it cometh.
10 Thus saith the Lord God; I will also make the
multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon.
11 He and his people with him, the terrible of
the nations, shall be brought to destroy the
land: and they shall draw their swords against
Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.
12 And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the
land into the hand of the wicked: and I will make
the land waste, and all that is therein, by the
hand of strangers: I the Lord have spoken it.
13 Thus saith the Lord God; I will also destroy
the idols, and I will cause their images to cease
out of Noph; and there shall be no more a prince
of the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in
the land of Egypt.
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14 And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set
fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments in No.
15 And I will pour my fury upon Sin, the strength
of Egypt; and I will cut off the multitude of No.
16 And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall have
great pain, and No shall be rent asunder, and
Noph shall have distresses daily.
17 The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall
fall by the sword: and these cities shall go into
captivity.
18 At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened,
when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt: and
the pomp of her strength shall cease in her: as
for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her
daughters shall go into captivity.
19 Thus will I execute judgments in Egypt: and
they shall know that I am the Lord.
20 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in
the first month, in the seventh day of the month,
that the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
21 Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh
king of Egypt; and, lo, it shall not be bound up
to be healed, to put a roller to bind it, to make
it strong to hold the sword.
22 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I
am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break
his arms, the strong, and that which was broken;
and I will cause the sword to fall out of his
hand.
23 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the
nations, and will disperse them through the
countries.
24 And I will strengthen the arms of the king of
Babylon, and put my sword in his hand: but I will
break Pharaoh's arms, and he shall groan before
him with the groanings of a deadly wounded man.
25 But I will strengthen the arms of the king of
Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down;
and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I
shall put my sword into the hand of the king of
Babylon, and he shall stretch it out upon the
land of Egypt.
26 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the
nations, and disperse them among the countries;
and they shall know that I am the Lord.
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