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Ezekiel - Revised Standard Version |
The Latter PROPHETS |
| In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me: | Prophecy against Egypt. Eze.29.1-16
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| "Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him and against all Egypt; |
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| speak, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I am against you,
Pharaoh king of Egypt,
the great dragon that lies
in the midst of his streams,
that says, 'My Nile is my own;
I made it.'
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| I will put hooks in your jaws,
and make the fish of your streams stick to your scales;
and I will draw you up out of the midst of your streams,
with all the fish of your streams
which stick to your scales.
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| And I will cast you forth into the wilderness,
you and all the fish of your streams;
you shall fall upon the open field,
and not be gathered and buried.
To the beasts of the earth and to the birds of the air
I have given you as food. |
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| "Then all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the LORD. Because you have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel; |
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| when they grasped you with the hand, you broke, and tore all their shoulders; and when they leaned upon you, you broke, and made all their loins to shake; |
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| therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will bring a sword upon you, and will cut off from you man and beast; |
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| and the land of Egypt shall be a desolation and a waste. Then they will know that I am the LORD. "Because you said, 'The Nile is mine, and I made it,' |
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| therefore, behold, I am against you, and against your streams, and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from Migdol to Syene, as far as the border of Ethiopia. |
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| No foot of man shall pass through it, and no foot of beast shall pass through it; it shall be uninhabited forty years. |
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| And I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of desolated countries; and her cities shall be a desolation forty years among cities that are laid waste. I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among the countries. |
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| "For thus says the Lord GOD: At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples among whom they were scattered; |
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| and I will restore the fortunes of Egypt, and bring them back to the land of Pathros, the land of their origin; and there they shall be a lowly kingdom. |
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| It shall be the most lowly of the kingdoms, and never again exalt itself above the nations; and I will make them so small that they will never again rule over the nations. |
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| And it shall never again be the reliance of the house of Israel, recalling their iniquity, when they turn to them for aid. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD." |
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