| 29 | Ezekiel | ||
| 1 | In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me: | Prophecy against Egypt. Eze.29.1-16 | |
| 2 | "Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him and against all Egypt; | ||
| 3 | speak, and say, Thus says Yahweh GOD: 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.' | ||
| 4 | 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. | ||
| 5 | 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. | ||
| 6 | "Then all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am Yahweh. Because you have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel; | ||
| 7 | 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; | ||
| 8 | therefore thus says Yahweh GOD: Behold, I will bring a sword upon you, and will cut off from you man and beast; | ||
| 9 | and the land of Egypt shall be a desolation and a waste. Then they will know that I am Yahweh. "Because you said, 'The Nile is mine, and I made it,' | ||
| 10 | 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. | ||
| 11 | No foot of man shall pass through it, and no foot of beast shall pass through it; it shall be uninhabited forty years. | ||
| 12 | 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. | ||
| 13 | "For thus says Yahweh GOD: At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples among whom they were scattered; | ||
| 14 | 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. | ||
| 15 | 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. | ||
| 16 | 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 Yahweh GOD." | ||
| 17 | In the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me: | Nebuchadnezzar will conquer Egypt. Eze.29.17-21 | |
| 18 | "Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made his army labour hard against Tyre; every head was made bald and every shoulder was rubbed bare; yet neither he nor his army got anything from Tyre to pay for the labour that he had performed against it. | ||
| 19 | Therefore thus says Yahweh GOD: Behold, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall carry off its wealth and despoil it and plunder it; and it shall be the wages for his army. | ||
| 20 | I have given him the land of Egypt as his recompense for which he laboured, because they worked for me, says Yahweh GOD. | ||
| 21 | "On that day I will cause a horn to spring forth to the house of Israel, and I will open your lips among them. Then they will know that I am Yahweh." | ||
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