Ezekiel:28-30
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The word of the LORD came again unto me ,
saying ,
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Son of man ,
say unto the prince of Tyrus ,
Thus saith the Lord GOD ;
Because thine heart is lifted up ,
and thou hast said ,
I am a God ,
I sit in the seat of God ,
in the midst of the seas ;
yet thou art a man ,
and not God ,
though thou set thine heart as the heart of God :
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Behold ,
thou art wiser than Daniel ;
there is no secret that they can hide from thee :
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With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches ,
and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures :
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By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches ,
and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches :
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Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD ;
Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God ;
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Behold ,
therefore I will bring strangers upon thee ,
the terrible of the nations :
and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom ,
and they shall defile thy brightness .
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They shall bring thee down to the pit ,
and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas .
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Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee ,
I am God ?
but thou shalt be a man ,
and no God ,
in the hand of him that slayeth thee .
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Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers :
for I have spoken it ,
saith the Lord GOD .
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Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me ,
saying ,
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Son of man ,
take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus ,
and say unto him ,
Thus saith the Lord GOD ;
Thou sealest up the sum ,
full of wisdom ,
and perfect in beauty .
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Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God ;
every precious stone was thy covering ,
the sardius ,
topaz ,
and the diamond ,
the beryl ,
the onyx ,
and the jasper ,
the sapphire ,
the emerald ,
and the carbuncle ,
and gold :
the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created .
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Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth ;
and I have set thee so :
thou wast upon the holy mountain of God ;
thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire .
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Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created ,
till iniquity was found in thee .
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By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence ,
and thou hast sinned :
therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God :
and I will destroy thee ,
O covering cherub ,
from the midst of the stones of fire .
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Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty ,
thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness :
I will cast thee to the ground ,
I will lay thee before kings ,
that they may behold thee .
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Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities ,
by the iniquity of thy traffick ;
therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee ,
it shall devour thee ,
and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee .
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All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee :
thou shalt be a terror ,
and never shalt thou be any more .
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Again the word of the LORD came unto me ,
saying ,
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Son of man ,
set thy face against Zidon ,
and prophesy against it ,
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And say ,
Thus saith the Lord GOD ;
Behold ,
I am against thee ,
O Zidon ;
and I will be glorified in the midst of thee :
and they shall know that I am the LORD ,
when I shall have executed judgments in her ,
and shall be sanctified in her .
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For I will send into her pestilence ,
and blood into her streets ;
and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by the sword upon her on every side ;
and they shall know that I am the LORD .
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And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel ,
nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about them ,
that despised them ;
and they shall know that I am the Lord GOD .
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Thus saith the Lord GOD ;
When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered ,
and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen ,
then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob .
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And they shall dwell safely therein ,
and shall build houses ,
and plant vineyards ;
yea ,
they shall dwell with confidence ,
when I have executed judgments upon all those that despise them round about them ;
and they shall know that I am the LORD their God .
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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 ,
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Son of man ,
set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt ,
and prophesy against him ,
and against all Egypt :
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD ;
Behold ,
I will bring a sword upon thee ,
and cut off man and beast out of thee .
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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 .
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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 .
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No foot of man shall pass through it ,
nor foot of beast shall pass through it ,
neither shall it be inhabited forty years .
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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 .
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Yet thus saith the Lord GOD ;
At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the people whither they were scattered :
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 ,
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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 :
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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The word of the LORD came again unto me ,
saying ,
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Son of man ,
prophesy and say ,
Thus saith the Lord GOD ;
Howl ye ,
Woe worth the day !
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For the day is near ,
even the day of the LORD is near ,
a cloudy day ;
it shall be the time of the heathen .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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Thus saith the Lord GOD ;
I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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And I will make Pathros desolate ,
and will set fire in Zoan ,
and will execute judgments in No .
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And I will pour my fury upon Sin ,
the strength of Egypt ;
and I will cut off the multitude of No .
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And I will set fire in Egypt :
Sin shall have great pain ,
and No shall be rent asunder ,
and Noph shall have distresses daily .
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The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword :
and these cities shall go into captivity .
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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 .
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Thus will I execute judgments in Egypt :
and they shall know that I am the LORD .
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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 ,
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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 .
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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 .
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And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations ,
and will disperse them through the countries .
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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 .
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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 .
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And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations ,
and disperse them among the countries ;
and they shall know that I am the LORD .
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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 ,