“1 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, 2 Son of man,
prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Howl ye, Woe worth the day! 3
For the day [is] near, even the day of the LORD [is] near, a cloudy day;
it shall be the time of the heathen. 4 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. 5 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. 6 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. 7
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. 8 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. 9 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. 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.” (Ezekiel 30:1-26 AV)
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