Ezekiel 30:20–26

Pharaoh’s Arms Are Broken

²⁰In the eleventh year, in the first month on the seventh day, the word of the Lord came to me:^{u 21}“Son of man, I have broken the arm^v of Pharaoh^w king of Egypt. It has not been bound up to be healed^x or put in a splint so that it may become strong enough to hold a sword. ²²Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt.^y I will break both his arms, the good arm as well as the broken one, and make the sword fall from his hand.^{z 23}I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them through the countries.^{a 24}I will strengthen^b the arms of the king of Babylon and put my sword^c in his hand, but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan^d before him like a mortally wounded man. ²⁵I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, but the arms of Pharaoh will fall limp. Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I put my sword^e into the hand of the king of Babylon and he brandishes it against Egypt.^{f 26}I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them through the countries. Then they will know that I am the Lord.^g”