Ezekiel 30
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1The LORD’s word came to me: 2Human one, prophesy and say, The LORD God proclaims:
Howl! Horror for the day!
3The day is coming,
the day of the LORD comes,
a day of clouds: the nations’ time has come.
4A sword will come into Egypt,
and trembling will overcome Cush,
when the slain fall in Egypt,
its wealth carried away,
and its foundations razed.
5Cush, Put, and Lud,
all Arabia and Cub,
and the people from the allied country#30.5 Or land of the covenant with them
will fall by the sword.
6The LORD proclaims:
When Egypt’s helpers fall,
its proud strength will decline.
From Migdol to Syene
they will fall by the sword.
This is what the LORD God says.
7Of all the lands laid waste, it will be the most desolate; of all cities, the most ruined. 8They will know that I am the LORD. On the day that I set fire to Egypt and all its helpers are broken, 9messengers in ships will go out from me to startle the complacent Cushites. Anguish will overcome them on Egypt’s day. It’s certainly coming.
10The LORD God proclaims:
I will bring an end to the hordes of Egypt
through the power of Babylon’s King Nebuchadrezzar.
11He and his people with him,
the most terrible of the nations,
will be brought in to destroy the land.
They will draw their swords against Egypt
and fill the land with the slain.
12I will dry up the Nile canals;
I will sell the land to evildoers.
With the help of foreigners
I will lay waste to the land and everything in it.
I, the LORD, have spoken.
13The LORD God proclaims:
I will destroy the idols
and bring an end to the images in Memphis.
Never again will there be a prince from the land of Egypt;
so I will kindle fear in the land of Egypt.
14I will turn Pathros into a desolation,
set fire to Zoan,
and execute judgments in Thebes.
15I will pour out my anger on Pelusium,
the stronghold of Egypt,
and I will cut down pompous Thebes.
16I will set Egypt on fire;
Pelusium will writhe in travail,
Thebes will be split open,
Memphis assaulted in broad daylight.
17The elite troops of On and Pi-beseth
will fall by the sword,
and the cities themselves will go into captivity.
18At Tehaphnehes the day will go dark when I break Egypt’s yoke and bring an end to its proud strength. A cloud will cover it, and the towns around it will go into captivity. 19I will execute judgments in Egypt, and they will know that I am the LORD.
20In the eleventh year, on the seventh day of the first month, the LORD’s word came to me: 21Human one, I’ve broken the arm of Pharaoh, Egypt’s king, and it hasn’t been set so that it might heal, nor has it been braced or wrapped up so that it might be strong enough to grasp a sword.
22So now the LORD God proclaims: I’m against Pharaoh, and I will break his arms, both the sound one and the broken one, and I’ll make the sword fall out of his hand. 23I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them throughout the earth. 24I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and I will put my sword into his hand. When I break the arms of Pharaoh, he will groan like a dying man in his presence. 25I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, but the arms of Pharaoh will fall. They will know that I am the LORD, when I put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon and he uses it against the land of Egypt. 26When I scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them throughout the earth, they will know that I am the LORD.
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