1In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me: 2"Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him and against all Egypt; 3speak, and say, Thus says Yahweh GOD:
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; 7when 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; 8therefore thus says Yahweh GOD: Behold, I will bring a sword upon you, and will cut off from you man and beast; 9and 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,' 10therefore, 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. 11No foot of man shall pass through it, and no foot of beast shall pass through it; it shall be uninhabited forty years. 12And 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; 14and 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. 15It 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. 16And 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."
17In the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me: 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. 19Therefore 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. 20I 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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