Ezekiel 29–31

In the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the twelfth day of the month, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, ²Son of man, ^aset thy face against ^bPharaoh king of Egypt, and ^aprophesy against him, and ^cagainst all Egypt: ³speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord God; ^dBehold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great ^efdragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, ^gwhich hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself. ⁴But ^hI will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy ⁱscales, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy ⁱscales. ⁵And I will leave thee ^jthrown into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open fields; ^kthou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: I have given thee ^lfor meat to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven. ⁶And all the inhabitants of Egypt ^mshall know that I am the Lord, because they have been ⁿa staff of reed to the house of Israel. ^7oWhen they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rent all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and ^pmadest all their loins to be at a stand. ⁸Therefore thus saith the Lord God; ^qBehold, I will bring a sword upon thee, ^qand cut off man and beast out of thee. ⁹And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; ^mand they shall know that I am the Lord: ^gbecause he hath said, The river is mine, and I have made it. ^10dBehold therefore, I am against thee, and ^ragainst thy rivers, and ^rI will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, ^tfrom the tower of Syene even unto the border of ^uEthiopia. ^11vNo foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years. ¹²And I will make the land of Egypt ^wdesolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, ^wand her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: ^xand I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries. ¹³Yet thus saith the Lord God; At the end of forty years ^ywill I gather the Egyptians from the people whither they were scattered: ¹⁴and ^zI will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the land of ^aPathros, into the land of their habitation; and they shall be there a base kingdom. ¹⁵It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; ^bneither shall it exalt itself any more above the nations: for I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations. ¹⁶And it shall be no more ^cthe confidence of the house of Israel, ^dwhich bringeth their iniquity to remembrance, when they shall look after them: but ^ethey shall know that I am the Lord God.

¹⁷And 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, ¹⁸Son of man, ^fNebuchadrezzar king of Babylon ^gcaused his army to serve a great service ^hagainst Tyrus: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was ⁱpeeled: yet had he no wages, nor his army, for Tyrus, for the service that he had served against it: ¹⁹therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I ^jwill give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and ^khe shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army. ²⁰I have given him the land of Egypt for his labour wherewith he served against it, because ^gthey wrought for me, saith the Lord God. ²¹In that day ^lwill I cause the horn of the house of Israel to bud forth, and I will give thee ^mthe opening of the mouth in the midst of them; and ^ethey shall know that I am the Lord.

XXX.The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying, ²Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord God; ^aHowl ye, Woe worth the day! ³For ^bthe day is near, even ^abdthe day of the Lord is near, ^ca cloudy day; ^dit shall be the time of the heathen. ⁴And ^ethe sword shall come upon Egypt, and ^fgreat pain shall be in ^gEthiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and ^hthey shall take away her multitude, and ⁱher foundations shall be broken down. ^5gkEthiopia, and ^klLibya, and ^klLydia, and all ^mthe mingled people, and Chub, and the men of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword. ⁶Thus saith the Lord; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and ⁿthe pride of her power shall come down: ^ofrom the tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord God. ⁷And they shall be ^pdesolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, ^pand her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted. ^8qAnd they shall know that I am the Lord, ^rwhen I have set a fire in Egypt, and when all ^sher helpers shall be destroyed. ⁹In that day ^tshall messengers go forth from me in ships to make the careless ^gEthiopians afraid, and ^fgreat pain shall come upon them, as in the day of Egypt: for lo, ^eit cometh. ¹⁰Thus saith the Lord God; ^uI will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon. ¹¹He and his people with him, ^vthe terrible of the nations, shall be brought to destroy the land: and ^vthey shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain. ¹²And ^wI will make ^xthe rivers ^ydry, and ^usell the land into the hand of ^zthe wicked: and ^xaI will make the land waste, and all that is therein, by the hand of ^bstrangers: ^cI the Lord have spoken it. ¹³Thus saith the Lord God; ^dI will also destroy the idols, and I will cause their ^eimages to cease out of ^fNoph; and ^gthere shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt: and ^hI will put a fear in the land of Egypt. ¹⁴And I will make ⁱPathros desolate, and ^kwill set fire in ^lZoan, and ^mwill execute judgments in ⁿNo. ¹⁵And I will pour my fury upon Sin, the strength of Egypt; and I will cut off ^othe multitude of ⁿNo. ¹⁶And ^kI will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall have great pain, and ⁿNo shall be rent asunder, and ^fNoph ^pshall have distresses daily. ¹⁷The young men of ^qAven and of Phi-beseth shall fall by the sword: and these cities shall go into captivity. ¹⁸At ^rTehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened, ^swhen I shall break there the yokes of Egypt: and ^tthe pomp of her strength shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity. ¹⁹Thus ^mwill I execute judgments in Egypt: ^uand they shall know that I am the Lord.

²⁰And 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, ²¹Son of man, ^vI have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and lo, it shall not be bound up ^wto be healed, to put a roller to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword. ²²Therefore thus saith the Lord God; ^xBehold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and ^ywill break his arms, the strong, and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand. ^23zAnd I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries. ²⁴And ^aI 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 ^bgroan before him with the groanings of a ^bdeadly wounded man. ²⁵But ^aI will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; ^uand they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and ^ahe shall stretch it out upon the land of Egypt. ^26zAnd I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among the countries; ^uand they shall know that I am the Lord.

XXXI.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, ²Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to ^ahis multitude; ^bWhom art thou like in thy greatness? ³Behold, ^cthe Assyrian was ^da cedar in Lebanon with fair ^ebranches, and with a shadowing ^fshrowd, and ^ghof a high stature; and ^hihis top was ^gamong ^ehthe thick boughs. ⁴ⁱⁱThe waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent out her little rivers unto all the trees of the field. ⁵Therefore ^ghhis height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and ^khis boughs were multiplied, and ^lhis branches became long because of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth. ^6mAll the fowls of heaven made their nests in ^khis boughs, and under ^lhis branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and ^mnunder his shadow dwelt all great nations. ⁷Thus was he fair ^bin his greatness, in the length of ^ohis branches: for his root was by great waters. ⁸The cedars ^pin the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like ^khis boughs, and ^qthe chesnut trees were not like ^lhis branches; nor any tree ^pin the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty. ⁹I have made him fair by the multitude of ^ohis branches: so that all the trees of ^pEden, that were ^pin the garden of God, envied him.

¹⁰Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because ^hthou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up ^ghihis top among ^ethe thick boughs, and ^rhis heart is lifted up in his height; ¹¹I have therefore delivered him into the hand of ^sthe mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely ^tdeal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness. ¹²And ^ustrangers, ^uthe terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: ^vupon the mountains and in all ^vthe valleys ^ohis branches are fallen, and ^lhis boughs are broken by all ^wthe rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down ⁿfrom his shadow, and have left him. ^13xUpon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon ^lhis branches: ¹⁴to the end that none of all the trees by the waters ^hexalt themselves for their height, neither…