Ezekiel 30–32

30The 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 ^||Pi-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.

^20*And 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.

31^*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 ^fshroud, and ^ghof an 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 shoot up ^ghitheir top among ^ethe thick boughs, neither ^||their ^ytrees stand up in their height, ^yall that drink water: for ^zthey are all delivered unto death, ^abto the nether parts of the earth, ^zin the midst of the children of men, ^awith them that go down to the pit.

¹⁵Thus saith the Lord God; In the day when he went down ^cto the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters ^dwere stayed: and I caused ^eLebanon ^†to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him. ^16fI made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down ^cto hell ^awith them that descend into the pit: and ^gall the trees of Eden, ^gthe choice and best of ^eLebanon, ^hall that drink water, ⁱshall be comforted ^ain the nether parts of the earth. ¹⁷They also went down ^cinto hell with him unto ^jthem that be slain with the sword; and they that were his arm, that ^kdwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen. ^18lTo whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among ^gthe trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with ^gthe trees of Eden ^aunto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of ^mthe uncircumcised with ^jthem that be slain by the sword. ^lThis is Pharaoh and all ^lhis multitude, saith the Lord God.

32^*And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, ²Son of man, ^atake up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like ^ba young lion of the nations, and thou art as a ^||whale in ^cthe seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and ^dtroubledst the waters with thy feet, and ^efouledst their rivers. ³Thus saith the Lord God; I will therefore ^eespread out my net over thee with a company of many people; and they shall bring thee up in my ^fnet. ⁴Then ^gwill I leave thee upon the land, ^gI will cast thee forth upon the open field, and ^hwill cause all the fowls of the heaven to remain upon thee, and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with thee. ⁵And I will lay thy flesh ⁱupon the mountains, and fill ⁱthe valleys with thy height. ⁶I will also water with thy blood ^||the land wherein thou swimmest, even ⁱto the mountains; and ⁱthe rivers shall be full of thee. ⁷And when I shall ^||put thee out, ^kI will cover the heaven, and ^lmake the stars thereof dark; ^kI will cover the sun with a cloud, and ^kthe moon shall not give her light. ⁸All the ^†bright lights of heaven will I ^lmake ^†dark over thee, and ⁿset darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord God. ⁹I will also ^†vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy ^odestruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not known. ¹⁰Yea, I will ^pmake many people amazed at thee, and ^ptheir kings shall be horribly afraid for thee, when I shall brandish my sword before them; and ^qthey shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, ^rin the day of thy fall.

¹¹For thus saith the Lord God; ^sThe sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee. ¹²By the swords of the mighty will I cause ^tthy multitude to fall, ^uthe terrible of the nations, all of them: and ^vthey shall spoil the pomp of Egypt, and all ^tthe multitude thereof shall be destroyed. ¹³I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside the great waters; ^wneither shall the foot of man ^dtrouble them any more, nor the hoofs of beasts ^dtrouble them. ¹⁴Then will I ^xmake their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord God. ¹⁵When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and ^ythe country shall be ^†destitute of that whereof it was full, when I shall smite all them that dwell therein, then ^zshall they know that I …