Ezekiel:29-30

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* In the tenth year , in the tenth month , in the twelfth day of the month , the word of the LORD came unto me , saying , * Son of man , set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt , and prophesy against him , and against all Egypt : * Speak , and say , Thus saith the Lord GOD ; Behold , I am against thee , Pharaoh king of Egypt , the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers , which hath said , My river is mine own , and I have made it for myself . * But I will put hooks in thy jaws , and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales , and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers , and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales . * And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness , thee and all the fish of thy rivers : thou shalt fall upon the open fields ; thou shalt not be brought together , nor gathered : I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven . * And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the LORD , because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel . * When they took hold of thee by thy hand , thou didst break , and rend all their shoulder : and when they leaned upon thee , thou brakest , and madest all their loins to be at a stand . * Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD ; Behold , I will bring a sword upon thee , and cut off man and beast out of thee . * And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste ; and they shall know that I am the LORD : because he hath said , The river is mine , and I have made it . * Behold , therefore I am against thee , and against thy rivers , and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate , from the tower of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia . * No foot of man shall pass through it , nor foot of beast shall pass through it , neither shall it be inhabited forty years . * And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate , and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years : and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations , and will disperse them through the countries . * Yet thus saith the Lord GOD ; At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the people whither they were scattered : * And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt , and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros , into the land of their habitation ; and they shall be there a base kingdom . * It shall be the basest of the kingdoms ; neither shall it exalt itself any more above the nations : for I will diminish them , that they shall no more rule over the nations . * And it shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel , which bringeth their iniquity to remembrance , when they shall look after them : but they shall know that I am the Lord GOD . * And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year , in the first month , in the first day of the month , the word of the LORD came unto me , saying , * Son of man , Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyrus : every head was made bald , and every shoulder was peeled : yet had he no wages , nor his army , for Tyrus , for the service that he had served against it : * Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD ; Behold , I will give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon ; and he shall take her multitude , and take her spoil , and take her prey ; and it shall be the wages for his army . * I have given him the land of Egypt for his labour wherewith he served against it , because they wrought for me , saith the Lord GOD . * In that day will I cause the horn of the house of Israel to bud forth , and I will give thee the opening of the mouth in the midst of them ; and they shall know that I am the LORD . * The word of the LORD came again unto me , saying , * Son of man , prophesy and say , Thus saith the Lord GOD ; Howl ye , Woe worth the day ! * For the day is near , even the day of the LORD is near , a cloudy day ; it shall be the time of the heathen . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * Thus saith the Lord GOD ; I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * And I will make Pathros desolate , and will set fire in Zoan , and will execute judgments in No . * And I will pour my fury upon Sin , the strength of Egypt ; and I will cut off the multitude of No . * And I will set fire in Egypt : Sin shall have great pain , and No shall be rent asunder , and Noph shall have distresses daily . * The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword : and these cities shall go into captivity . * 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 . * Thus will I execute judgments in Egypt : and they shall know that I am the LORD . * 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 , * 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 . * 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 . * And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations , and will disperse them through the countries . * 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 . * 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 . * And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations , and disperse them among the countries ; and they shall know that I am the LORD . * And it came to pass in the eleventh year , in the third month , in the first day of the month , that the word of the LORD came unto me , saying ,

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