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Judgment of Egypt

¹ In the ^(C1)tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth of the month, the word of the LORD came to me saying,² "Son of man, set your face against ^(C1)Pharaoh king of Egypt and prophesy against him and against all ^(C2)Egypt.³ "Speak and say, 'Thus says the Lord ^(F1)GOD,

"Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt,
The great ^(F2)(C1)monster that lies in the midst of his ^(F3)rivers,
That ^(C2)has said, 'My Nile is mine, and I myself have made it.'

⁴ "I will put ^(C1)hooks in your jaws
And make the fish of your ^(F1)rivers cling to your scales.
And I will bring you up out of the midst of your ^(F1)rivers,
And all the fish of your ^(F1)rivers will cling to your scales.

⁵ "I will ^(C1)abandon you to the wilderness, you and all the fish of your ^(F1)rivers;
You will fall on the ^(F2)open field; you will not be brought together or ^(F3)(C2)gathered.
I have given you for ^(C3)food to the beasts of the earth and to the birds of the sky.

⁶ "Then all the inhabitants of Egypt will know that I am the LORD,
Because they have been only a ^(C1)staff made of reed to the house of Israel.

⁷ "When they took hold of you with the hand,
You ^(C1)broke and tore all their ^(F1)hands;
And when they leaned on you,
You broke and made all their loins ^(F2)quake."

⁸ 'Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I will ^(C1)bring upon you a sword and I will cut off from you man and beast.

⁹ "The ^(C1)land of Egypt will become a desolation and waste. Then they will know that I am the LORD. Because ^(F1)you ^(C2)said, 'The Nile is mine, and I have made it,'¹⁰ therefore, behold, I am ^(C1)against you and against your ^(F1)rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from Migdol to Syene and even to the border of ^(F2)Ethiopia.¹¹ "A man's foot will ^(C1)not pass through it, and the foot of a beast will not pass through it, and it will not be inhabited for forty years.¹² "So I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the ^(C1)midst of desolated lands. And her cities, in the midst of cities that are laid waste, will be desolate forty years; and I will ^(C2)scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the lands."

¹³ 'For thus says the Lord GOD, "At the end of forty years I will ^(C1)gather the Egyptians from the peoples ^(F1)among whom they were scattered.¹⁴ "I will turn the fortunes of Egypt and make them return to the land of ^(C1)Pathros, to the land of their origin, and there they will be a lowly kingdom.¹⁵ "It will be the ^(C1)lowest of the kingdoms, and it will never again lift itself up above the nations. And I will make them so small that they will not ^(C2)rule over the nations.¹⁶ "And it will never again be the ^(C1)confidence of the house of Israel, ^(F1)(C2)bringing to mind the iniquity of their having turned ^(F2)to Egypt. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD."'"

¹⁷ Now in the ^(C1)twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first of the month, the word of the LORD came to me saying,¹⁸ "Son of man, ^(C1)Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made his army labor ^(F1)hard against Tyre; every head was made ^(C2)bald and every shoulder was rubbed bare. But he and his army had no wages from Tyre for the labor that he had ^(F2)performed against it."¹⁹ Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I ^(C1)will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. And he will carry off her ^(F1)(C2)wealth and capture her spoil and seize her plunder; and it will be wages for his army.²⁰ "I have given him the land of Egypt for his labor which he ^(F1)(C1)performed, because they acted for Me," declares the Lord GOD.

²¹ "On that day I will make a ^(C1)horn sprout for the house of Israel, and I will ^(F1)(C2)open your mouth in their midst. Then they will know that I am the LORD."