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¹ In the tenth year, in the tenth [month], in the twelfth [day] of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,² Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against all Egypt;³ speak, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Look, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the crocodile that lies in the midst of his rivers, that has said, My river is my own, and I have made it for myself.⁴ And I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will cause the fish of your rivers to stick to your scales; and I will bring you up out of the midst of your rivers, with all the fish of your rivers which stick to your scales.⁵ And I will cast you forth into the wilderness, you and all the fish of your rivers: you shall fall on the open field; you shall not be brought together nor gathered; I have given you for food to the beasts of the earth and to the birds of the heavens.⁶ And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am Yahweh, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.⁷ When they took hold of you by your hand, you broke, and rent all their shoulders; and when they leaned on you, you broke, and made all their loins to be at a stand.

⁸ Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Look, I will bring a sword on you, and will cut off from you man and beast.⁹ And the land of Egypt shall be a desolation and a waste; and they shall know that I am Yahweh. Because he has said, The river is mine, and I have made it;¹⁰ therefore, look, I am against you, and against your rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from the tower of Seveneh even to the border of Ethiopia.¹¹ No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.¹² And I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of the countries that are desolate; and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be a desolation forty years; and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.¹³ For thus says the Lord Yahweh: At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples where they were scattered;¹⁴ and I will bring back the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their birth; and they shall be there a base kingdom.¹⁵ It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither shall it anymore lift itself up above the nations: and I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations.¹⁶ And it shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel, bringing iniquity to remembrance, when they turn to look after them: and they shall know that I am the Lord Yahweh.

¹⁷ And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the first [month], in the first [day] of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,¹⁸ Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was worn; yet he had no wages, nor his army, from Tyre, for the service that he had served against it.¹⁹ Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Look, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall carry off her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army.²⁰ I have given him the land of Egypt as his recompense for which he served, because they wrought for me, says the Lord Yahweh.²¹ In that day I will cause a horn to bud forth to the house of Israel, and I will give you the opening of the mouth in the midst of them; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.