Ezekiel:29-32
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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 :
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Son of man ,
say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his multitude : "
Whom are you like in your greatness ?
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Behold ,
I will liken you to a cedar in Lebanon ,
with fair branches and forest shade ,
and of great height ,
its top among the clouds .
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The waters nourished it ,
the deep made it grow tall ,
making its rivers flow round the place of its planting ,
sending forth its streams to all the trees of the forest .
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So it towered high above all the trees of the forest ;
its boughs grew large and its branches long ,
from abundant water in its shoots .
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All the birds of the air made their nests in its boughs ;
under its branches all the beasts of the field brought forth their young ;
and under its shadow dwelt all great nations .
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It was beautiful in its greatness ,
in the length of its branches ;
for its roots went down to abundant waters .
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The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it ,
nor the fir trees equal its boughs ;
the plane trees were as nothing compared with its branches ;
no tree in the garden of God was like it in beauty .
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I made it beautiful in the mass of its branches ,
and all the trees of Eden envied it ,
that were in the garden of God .
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Therefore thus says the Lord GOD :
Because it towered high and set its top among the clouds ,
and its heart was proud of its height ,
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I will give it into the hand of a mighty one of the nations ;
he shall surely deal with it as its wickedness deserves .
I have cast it out .
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Foreigners ,
the most terrible of the nations ,
will cut it down and leave it .
On the mountains and in all the valleys its branches will fall ,
and its boughs will lie broken in all the watercourses of the land ;
and all the peoples of the earth will go from its shadow and leave it .
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Upon its ruin will dwell all the birds of the air ,
and upon its branches will be all the beasts of the field .
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All this is in order that no trees by the waters may grow to lofty height or set their tops among the clouds ,
and that no trees that drink water may reach up to them in height ;
for they are all given over to death ,
to the nether world among mortal men ,
with those who go down to the Pit .
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Thus says the Lord GOD :
When it goes down to Sheol I will make the deep mourn for it ,
and restrain its rivers ,
and many waters shall be stopped ;
I will clothe Lebanon in gloom for it ,
and all the trees of the field shall faint because of it .
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I will make the nations quake at the sound of its fall ,
when I cast it down to Sheol with those who go down to the Pit ;
and all the trees of Eden ,
the choice and best of Lebanon ,
all that drink water ,
will be comforted in the nether world .
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They also shall go down to Sheol with it ,
to those who are slain by the sword ;
yea ,
those who dwelt under its shadow among the nations shall perish .
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Whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden ?
You shall be brought down with the trees of Eden to the nether world ;
you shall lie among the uncircumcised ,
with those who are slain by the sword . "
This is Pharaoh and all his multitude ,
says the Lord GOD ."
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In the twelfth year ,
in the twelfth month ,
on the first day of the month ,
the word of the LORD came to me :
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Son of man ,
raise a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt ,
and say to him : "
You consider yourself a lion among the nations ,
but you are like a dragon in the seas ;
you burst forth in your rivers ,
trouble the waters with your feet ,
and foul their rivers .
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Thus says the Lord GOD :
I will throw my net over you with a host of many peoples ;
and I will haul you up in my dragnet .
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And I will cast you on the ground ,
on the open field I will fling you ,
and will cause all the birds of the air to settle on you ,
and I will gorge the beasts of the whole earth with you .
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I will strew your flesh upon the mountains ,
and fill the valleys with your carcass .
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I will drench the land even to the mountains with your flowing blood ;
and the watercourses will be full of you .
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When I blot you out ,
I will cover the heavens ,
and make their stars dark ;
I will cover the sun with a cloud ,
and the moon shall not give its light .
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All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over you ,
and put darkness upon your land ,
says the Lord GOD .
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I will trouble the hearts of many peoples ,
when I carry you captive among the nations ,
into the countries which you have not known .
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I will make many peoples appalled at you ,
and their kings shall shudder because of you ,
when I brandish my sword before them ;
they shall tremble every moment ,
every one for his own life ,
on the day of your downfall .
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For thus says the Lord GOD :
The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon you .
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I will cause your multitude to fall by the swords of mighty ones ,
all of them most terrible among the nations . "
They shall bring to nought the pride of Egypt ,
and all its multitude shall perish .
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I will destroy all its beasts from beside many waters ;
and no foot of man shall trouble them any more ,
nor shall the hoofs of beasts trouble them .
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Then I will make their waters clear ,
and cause their rivers to run like oil ,
says the Lord GOD .
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When I make the land of Egypt desolate and when the land is stripped of all that fills it ,
when I smite all who dwell in it ,
then they will know that I am the LORD .
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This is a lamentation which shall be chanted ;
the daughters of the nations shall chant it ;
over Egypt ,
and over all her multitude ,
shall they chant it ,
says the Lord GOD ."
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In the twelfth year ,
in the first month ,
on the fifteenth day of the month ,
the word of the LORD came to me :
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Son of man ,
wail over the multitude of Egypt ,
and send them down ,
her and the daughters of majestic nations ,
to the nether world ,
to those who have gone down to the Pit :
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Whom do you surpass in beauty ?
Go down ,
and be laid with the uncircumcised .'
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They shall fall amid those who are slain by the sword ,
and with her shall lie all her multitudes .
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The mighty chiefs shall speak of them ,
with their helpers ,
out of the midst of Sheol : `
They have come down ,
they lie still ,
the uncircumcised ,
slain by the sword .'
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Assyria is there ,
and all her company ,
their graves round about her ,
all of them slain ,
fallen by the sword ;
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whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the Pit ,
and her company is round about her grave ;
all of them slain ,
fallen by the sword ,
who spread terror in the land of the living .
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Elam is there ,
and all her multitude about her grave ;
all of them slain ,
fallen by the sword ,
who went down uncircumcised into the nether world ,
who spread terror in the land of the living ,
and they bear their shame with those who go down to the Pit .
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They have made her a bed among the slain with all her multitude ,
their graves round about her ,
all of them uncircumcised ,
slain by the sword ;
for terror of them was spread in the land of the living ,
and they bear their shame with those who go down to the Pit ;
they are placed among the slain .
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Meshech and Tubal are there ,
and all their multitude ,
their graves round about them ,
all of them uncircumcised ,
slain by the sword ;
for they spread terror in the land of the living .
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And they do not lie with the fallen mighty men of old who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war ,
whose swords were laid under their heads ,
and whose shields are upon their bones ;
for the terror of the mighty men was in the land of the living .
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So you shall be broken and lie among the uncircumcised ,
with those who are slain by the sword .
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Edom is there ,
her kings and all her princes ,
who for all their might are laid with those who are slain by the sword ;
they lie with the uncircumcised ,
with those who go down to the Pit .
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The princes of the north are there ,
all of them ,
and all the Sido '
nians ,
who have gone down in shame with the slain ,
for all the terror which they caused by their might ;
they lie uncircumcised with those who are slain by the sword ,
and bear their shame with those who go down to the Pit .
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When Pharaoh sees them ,
he will comfort himself for all his multitude ,
Pharaoh and all his army ,
slain by the sword ,
says the Lord GOD .
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For he spread terror in the land of the living ;
therefore he shall be laid among the uncircumcised ,
with those who are slain by the sword ,
Pharaoh and all his multitude ,
says the Lord GOD ."
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The word of the LORD came to me :
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