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The word of the LORD came to me :
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Son of man ,
say to the prince of Tyre ,
Thus says the Lord GOD : "
Because your heart is proud ,
and you have said , `
I am a god ,
I sit in the seat of the gods ,
in the heart of the seas ,'
yet you are but a man ,
and no god ,
though you consider yourself as wise as a god --
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you are indeed wiser than Daniel ;
no secret is hidden from you ;
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by your wisdom and your understanding you have gotten wealth for yourself ,
and have gathered gold and silver into your treasuries ;
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by your great wisdom in trade you have increased your wealth ,
and your heart has become proud in your wealth --
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therefore thus says the Lord GOD : "
Because you consider yourself as wise as a god ,
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therefore ,
behold ,
I will bring strangers upon you ,
the most terrible of the nations ;
and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom and defile your splendor .
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They shall thrust you down into the Pit ,
and you shall die the death of the slain in the heart of the seas .
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Will you still say , `
I am a god ,'
in the presence of those who slay you ,
though you are but a man ,
and no god ,
in the hands of those who wound you ?
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You shall die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of foreigners ;
for I have spoken ,
says the Lord GOD ."
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Moreover the word of the LORD came to me :
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Son of man ,
raise a lamentation over the king of Tyre ,
and say to him ,
Thus says the Lord GOD : "
You were the signet of perfection ,
full of wisdom and perfect in beauty .
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You were in Eden ,
the garden of God ;
every precious stone was your covering ,
carnelian ,
topaz ,
and jasper ,
chrysolite ,
beryl ,
and onyx ,
sapphire ,
carbuncle ,
and emerald ;
and wrought in gold were your settings and your engravings .
On the day that you were created they were prepared .
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With an anointed guardian cherub I placed you ;
you were on the holy mountain of God ;
in the midst of the stones of fire you walked .
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You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created ,
till iniquity was found in you .
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In the abundance of your trade you were filled with violence ,
and you sinned ;
so I cast you as a profane thing from the mountain of God ,
and the guardian cherub drove you out from the midst of the stones of fire .
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Your heart was proud because of your beauty ;
you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor .
I cast you to the ground ;
I exposed you before kings ,
to feast their eyes on you .
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By the multitude of your iniquities ,
in the unrighteousness of your trade you profaned your sanctuaries ;
so I brought forth fire from the midst of you ;
it consumed you ,
and I turned you to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all who saw you .
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All who know you among the peoples are appalled at you ;
you have come to a dreadful end and shall be no more for ever ."
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The word of the LORD came to me :
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Son of man ,
set your face toward Sidon ,
and prophesy against her
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and say ,
Thus says the Lord GOD : "
Behold ,
I am against you ,
O Sidon ,
and I will manifest my glory in the midst of you .
And they shall know that I am the LORD when I execute judgments in her ,
and manifest my holiness in her ;
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for I will send pestilence into her ,
and blood into her streets ;
and the slain shall fall in the midst of her ,
by the sword that is against her on every side .
Then they will know that I am the LORD .
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And for the house of Israel there shall be no more a brier to prick or a thorn to hurt them among all their neighbors who have treated them with contempt .
Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD .
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Thus says the Lord GOD :
When I gather the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered ,
and manifest my holiness in them in the sight of the nations ,
then they shall dwell in their own land which I gave to my servant Jacob .
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And they shall dwell securely in it ,
and they shall build houses and plant vineyards .
They shall dwell securely ,
when I execute judgments upon all their neighbors who have treated them with contempt .
Then they will know that I am the LORD their God ."
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In the tenth year ,
in the tenth month ,
on the twelfth day of the month ,
the word of the LORD came to me :
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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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In the twenty-seventh year ,
in the first month ,
on the first day of the month ,
the word of the LORD came to me :
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Son of man ,
Nebuchadrez '
zar king of Babylon made his army labor 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 labor that he had performed against it .
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Therefore thus says the Lord GOD :
Behold ,
I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadrez '
zar 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 .
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I have given him the land of Egypt as his recompense for which he labored ,
because they worked for me ,
says the Lord GOD .
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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 the LORD ."
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The word of the LORD came to me :
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Son of man ,
prophesy ,
and say ,
Thus says the Lord GOD : "
Wail , `
Alas for the day !'
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For the day is near ,
the day of the LORD is near ;
it will be a day of clouds ,
a time of doom for the nations .
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A sword shall come upon Egypt ,
and anguish shall be in Ethiopia ,
when the slain fall in Egypt ,
and her wealth is carried away ,
and her foundations are torn down .
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Ethiopia ,
and Put ,
and Lud ,
and all Arabia ,
and Libya ,
and the people of the land that is in league ,
shall fall with them by the sword .
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Thus says the LORD :
Those who support Egypt shall fall ,
and her proud might shall come down ;
from Migdol to Syene they shall fall within her by the sword ,
says the Lord GOD .
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And she shall be desolated in the midst of desolated countries and her cities shall be in the midst of cities that are laid waste .
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Then they will know that I am the LORD ,
when I have set fire to Egypt ,
and all her helpers are broken .
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On that day swift messengers shall go forth from me to terrify the unsuspecting Ethiopians ;
and anguish shall come upon them on the day of Egypt '
s doom ;
for ,
lo ,
it comes !
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Thus says the Lord GOD :
I will put an end to the wealth of Egypt ,
by the hand of Nebuchadrez '
zar king of Babylon .
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He and his people with him ,
the most terrible of the nations ,
shall be brought in 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 dry up the Nile ,
and will sell the land into the hand of evil men ;
I will bring desolation upon the land and everything in it ,
by the hand of foreigners ;
I ,
the LORD ,
have spoken .
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Thus says the Lord GOD :
I will destroy the idols ,
and put an end to the images ,
in Memphis ;
there shall no longer be a prince in the land of Egypt ;
so I will put fear in the land of Egypt .
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I will make Pathros a desolation ,
and will set fire to Zo '
an ,
and will execute acts of judgment upon Thebes .
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And I will pour my wrath upon Pelusium ,
the stronghold of Egypt ,
and cut off the multitude of Thebes .
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And I will set fire to Egypt ;
Pelusium shall be in great agony ;
Thebes shall be breached ,
and its walls broken down .
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The young men of On and of Pibe '
seth shall fall by the sword ;
and the women shall go into captivity .
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At Tehaph '
nehes the day shall be dark ,
when I break there the dominion of Egypt ,
and her proud might shall come to an end ;
she shall be covered by a cloud ,
and her daughters shall go into captivity .
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Thus I will execute acts of judgment upon Egypt .
Then they will know that I am the LORD ."
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In the eleventh year ,
in the first month ,
on the seventh day of the month ,
the word of the LORD came to me :
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Son of man ,
I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt ;
and lo ,
it has not been bound up ,
to heal it by binding it with a bandage ,
so that it may become strong to wield the sword .
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Therefore thus says the Lord GOD :
Behold ,
I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt ,
and will break his arms ,
both the strong arm and the one that was broken ;
and I will make the sword fall from his hand .
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I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations ,
and disperse them throughout the lands .
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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 the arms of Pharaoh ,
and he will groan before him like a man mortally wounded .
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I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon ,
but the arms of Pharaoh shall fall ;
and they shall know that I am the LORD .
When I put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon ,
he shall stretch it out against the land of Egypt ;
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and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them throughout the countries .
Then they will know that I am the LORD ."
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In the eleventh year ,
in the third month ,
on the first day of the month ,
the word of the LORD came to me :