2 “Son of man, prophesy and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God:

a“Wail, ‘Woe to the day!’

3 For bthe day is near,

Even the day of the Lord is near;

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

4 The 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.

8 Then they will know that I am the Lord,

When I have set a fire in Egypt

And all her helpers are destroyed.

9 On 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.

11 He 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.

12 kI 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.”