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The word of the LORD came to me again ,
saying ,
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Son of man ,
say to the prince of Tyre , "
Thus says the Lord GOD : "
Because your heart is lifted up ,
And you say , "
I am a god ,
I sit in the seat of gods ,
In the midst of the seas ,'
Yet you are a man ,
and not a god ,
Though you set your heart as the heart of a god
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Behold ,
you are wiser than Daniel !
There is no secret that can be hidden from you !
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With your wisdom and your understanding You have gained riches for yourself ,
And gathered gold and silver into your treasuries ;
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By your great wisdom in trade you have increased your riches ,
And your heart is lifted up because of your riches ),"
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Therefore thus says the Lord GOD : "
Because you have set your heart as the heart of a god ,
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Behold ,
therefore ,
I will bring strangers against 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 throw you down into the Pit ,
And you shall die the death of the slain In the midst of the seas .
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Will you still say before him who slays you , "
I am a god '?
But you shall be a man ,
and not a god ,
In the hand of him who slays you .
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You shall die the death of the uncircumcised By the hand of aliens ;
For I have spoken ,"
says the Lord GOD ."'
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Moreover the word of the LORD came to me ,
saying ,
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Son of man ,
take up a lamentation for the king of Tyre ,
and say to him , "
Thus says the Lord GOD : "
You were the seal 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 :
The sardius ,
topaz ,
and diamond ,
Beryl ,
onyx ,
and jasper ,
Sapphire ,
turquoise ,
and emerald with gold .
The workmanship of your timbrels and pipes Was prepared for you on the day you were created .
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You were the anointed cherub who covers ;
I established you ;
You were on the holy mountain of God ;
You walked back and forth in the midst of fiery stones .
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You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created ,
Till iniquity was found in you .
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By the abundance of your trading You became filled with violence within ,
And you sinned ;
Therefore I cast you as a profane thing Out of the mountain of God ;
And I destroyed you ,
O covering cherub ,
From the midst of the fiery stones .
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Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty ;
You corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor ;
I cast you to the ground ,
I laid you before kings ,
That they might gaze at you .
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You defiled your sanctuaries By the multitude of your iniquities ,
By the iniquity of your trading ;
Therefore I brought fire from your midst ;
It devoured you ,
And I turned you to ashes upon the earth In the sight of all who saw you .
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All who knew you among the peoples are astonished at you ;
You have become a horror ,
And shall be no more forever .""'
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Then the word of the LORD came to me ,
saying ,
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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 ;
I will be glorified in your midst ;
And they shall know that I am the LORD ,
When I execute judgments in her and am hallowed in her .
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For I will send pestilence upon her ,
And blood in her streets ;
The wounded shall be judged in her midst By the sword against her on every side ;
Then they shall know that I am the LORD .
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And there shall no longer be a pricking brier or a painful thorn for the house of Israel from among all who are around them ,
who despise them .
Then they shall know that I am the Lord GOD ."
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Thus says the Lord GOD : "
When I have gathered the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered ,
and am hallowed in them in the sight of the Gentiles ,
then they will dwell in their own land which I gave to My servant Jacob .
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And they will dwell safely there ,
build houses ,
and plant vineyards ;
yes ,
they will dwell securely ,
when I execute judgments on all those around them who despise them .
Then they shall 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 ,
saying ,
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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 ,
O Pharaoh king of Egypt ,
O great monster who lies in the midst of his rivers ,
Who has said , "
My River is my own ;
I have made it for myself .'
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But I will put hooks in your jaws ,
And cause the fish of your rivers to stick to your scales ;
I will bring you up out of the midst of your rivers ,
And all the fish in your rivers will stick to your scales .
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I will leave you in the wilderness ,
You and all the fish of your rivers ;
You shall fall on the open field ;
You shall not be picked up or gathered .
I have given you as food To the beasts of the field And to the birds of the heavens .
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Then 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 you with the hand ,
You broke and tore all their shoulders ;
When they leaned on you ,
You broke and made all their backs quiver ."
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Therefore thus says the Lord GOD : "
Surely I will bring a sword upon you and cut off from you man and beast .
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And the land of Egypt shall become desolate and waste ;
then they will know that I am the LORD ,
because he said , "
The River is mine ,
and I have made it .'
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Indeed ,
therefore ,
I am against you and against your rivers ,
and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate ,
from Migdol to Syene ,
as far as the border of Ethiopia .
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Neither foot of man shall pass through it nor foot of beast pass through it ,
and it shall be uninhabited forty years .
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I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate ;
and among the cities that are laid waste ,
her cities shall be desolate forty years ;
and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them throughout the countries ."
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Yet ,
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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I will bring back the captives of Egypt and cause them to return to the land of Pathros ,
to the land of their origin ,
and there they shall be a lowly kingdom .
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It shall be the lowliest of kingdoms ;
it shall never again exalt itself above the nations ,
for I will diminish them so that they will not rule over the nations anymore .
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No longer shall it be the confidence of the house of Israel ,
but will remind them of their iniquity when they turned to follow them .
Then they shall know that I am the Lord GOD .""'
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And it came to pass in the twenty-seventh year ,
in the first month ,
on the first day of the month ,
that the word of the LORD came to me ,
saying ,
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Son of man ,
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to labor strenuously against Tyre ;
every head was made bald ,
and every shoulder rubbed raw ;
yet neither he nor his army received wages from Tyre ,
for the labor which they expended on it .
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Therefore thus says the Lord GOD : "
Surely I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon ;
he shall take away her wealth ,
carry off her spoil ,
and remove her pillage ;
and that will be the wages for his army .
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I have given him the land of Egypt for his labor ,
because they worked for Me ,'
says the Lord GOD .
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In that day I will cause the horn of the house of Israel to spring forth ,
and I will open your mouth to speak in their midst .
Then they shall know that I am the LORD ."'
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The word of the LORD came to me again ,
saying ,
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Son of man ,
prophesy and say , "
Thus says the Lord GOD : "
Wail , "
Woe to the day !'
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For the day is near ,
Even the day of the LORD is near ;
It will be a day of clouds ,
the time of the Gentiles .
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The sword shall come upon Egypt ,
And great anguish shall be in Ethiopia ,
When the slain fall in Egypt ,
And they take away her wealth ,
And her foundations are broken down .
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Ethiopia ,
Libya ,
Lydia ,
all the mingled people ,
Chub ,
and the men of the lands who are allied ,
shall fall with them by the sword ."
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Thus says the LORD : "
Those who uphold Egypt shall fall ,
And the pride of her power shall come down .
From Migdol to Syene Those within her shall fall by the sword ,"
Says the Lord GOD .
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They shall be desolate in the midst of the desolate countries ,
And her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are laid waste .
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Then they will know that I am the LORD ,
When I have set a fire in Egypt And all her helpers are destroyed .
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On that day messengers shall go forth from Me in ships To make the careless Ethiopians afraid ,
And great anguish shall come upon them ,
As on the day of Egypt ;
For indeed it is coming !"
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Thus says the Lord GOD : "
I will also make a multitude of Egypt to cease By the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon .
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He and his people with him ,
the most terrible of the nations ,
Shall be brought to destroy the land ;
They shall draw their swords against Egypt ,
And fill the land with the slain .
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I will make the rivers dry ,
And sell the land into the hand of the wicked ;
I will make the land waste ,
and all that is in it ,
By the hand of aliens .
I ,
the LORD ,
have spoken ."
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Thus says the Lord GOD : "
I will also destroy the idols ,
And cause the images to cease from Noph ;
There shall no longer be princes from the land of Egypt ;
I will put fear in the land of Egypt .
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I will make Pathros desolate ,
Set fire to Zoan ,
And execute judgments in No .
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I will pour My fury on Sin ,
the strength of Egypt ;
I will cut off the multitude of No ,
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And set a fire in Egypt ;
Sin shall have great pain ,
No shall be split open ,
And Noph shall be in distress daily .
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The young men of Aven and Pi Beseth shall fall by the sword ,
And these cities shall go into captivity .
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At Tehaphnehes the day shall also be darkened ,
When I break the yokes of Egypt there .
And her arrogant 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 I will execute judgments on Egypt ,
Then 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 ,
on the seventh day of the month ,
that the word of the LORD came to me ,
saying ,
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Son of man ,
I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt ;
and see ,
it has not been bandaged for healing ,
nor a splint put on to bind it ,
to make it strong enough to hold a sword .
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Therefore thus says the Lord GOD : "
Surely I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt ,
and will break his arms ,
both the strong one and the one that was broken ;
and I will make the sword fall out of his hand .
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I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations ,
and disperse them throughout the countries .
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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 will groan before him with the groanings of a mortally wounded man .
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Thus I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon ,
but the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down ;
they shall know that I am the LORD ,
when I put My sword into the hand of the king of Babylon and he stretches it out against the land of Egypt .
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I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them throughout the countries .
Then they shall know that I am the LORD ."'
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Now it came to pass in the eleventh year ,
in the third month ,
on the first day of the month ,
that the word of the LORD came to me ,
saying ,