Ezekiel 30

Egypt and Her Allies Will Fall

30The word of the Lord came to me again, saying, ²“Son of man, prophesy and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God:

^a“Wail, ‘Woe to the day!’

³For ^bthe day is near,

Even the day of the Lord is near;

It will be a day of clouds, the time of the Gentiles.

⁴The sword shall come upon Egypt,

And great anguish shall be in ¹Ethiopia,

When the slain fall in Egypt,

And they ^ctake away her wealth,

And ^dher foundations are broken down.

⁵“Ethiopia, ²Libya, ³Lydia, ^eall the mingled people, Chub, and the men of the lands who are allied, shall fall with them by the sword.”

⁶‘Thus says the Lord:

“Those who uphold Egypt shall fall,

And the pride of her power shall come down.

^fFrom ⁴Migdol to Syene

Those within her shall fall by the sword,”

Says the Lord God.

⁷“They ^gshall be desolate in the midst of the desolate countries,

And her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are laid waste.

⁸Then they will know that I am the Lord,

When I have set a fire in Egypt

And all her helpers are destroyed.

⁹On that day ^hmessengers shall go forth from Me in ships

To make the ⁵careless Ethiopians afraid,

And great anguish shall come upon them,

As on the day of Egypt;

For indeed it is coming!”

¹⁰‘Thus says the Lord God:

ⁱ“I will also make a multitude of Egypt to cease

By the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.

¹¹He and his people with him, ^jthe 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.

^12kI will make the rivers dry,

And ^lsell 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.”

¹³‘Thus says the Lord God:

“I will also ^mdestroy the idols,

And cause the images to cease from ⁶Noph;

ⁿThere shall no longer be princes from the land of Egypt;

^oI will put fear in the land of Egypt.

¹⁴I will make ^pPathros desolate,

Set fire to ^qZoan,

^rAnd execute judgments in ⁷No.

¹⁵I will pour My fury on ⁸Sin, the strength of Egypt;

^sI will cut off the multitude of ⁹No,

¹⁶And ^tset a fire in Egypt;

Sin shall have great pain,

No shall be split open,

And Noph shall be in distress daily.

¹⁷The young men of ¹Aven and Pi Beseth shall fall by the sword,

And these cities shall go into captivity.

^18uAt ²Tehaphnehes the day shall also be ³darkened,

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.

¹⁹Thus I will ^vexecute judgments on Egypt,

Then they shall know that I am the Lord.” ’ ”

Proclamation Against Pharaoh

²⁰And 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, ²¹“Son of man, I have ^wbroken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and see, ^xit has not been bandaged for healing, nor a ⁴splint put on to bind it, to make it strong enough to hold a sword. ²²Therefore thus says the Lord God: ‘Surely I am ^yagainst Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will ^zbreak his arms, both the strong one and the one that was broken; and I will make the sword fall out of his hand. ^23aI will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them throughout the countries. ²⁴I 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. ²⁵Thus I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, but the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; ^bthey 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. ^26cI will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them throughout the countries. Then they shall know that I am the Lord.’ ”