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¹ The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying,² Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Wail, Alas for the day!³ For the day is near, even the day of Yahweh is near; it shall be a day of clouds, a time of the nations.⁴ And a sword shall come on Egypt, and anguish shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt; and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down.⁵ Ethiopia, and Put, and Lud, and all the mingled people, and Cub, and the sons of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword.⁶ Thus says Yahweh: They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Seveneh they shall fall in it by the sword, says the Lord Yahweh.⁷ And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate; and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted.⁸ And they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and all her helpers are destroyed.⁹ In that day messengers shall go forth from before me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid; and there shall be anguish on them, as in the day of Egypt; for, look, it comes.¹⁰ Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease, by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon.¹¹ He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought in to destroy the land; and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.¹² And I will make the rivers dry, and will sell the land into the hand of evil men; and I will make the land desolate, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I, Yahweh, have spoken it.¹³ Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause the images to cease from Memphis; and there shall be no more a prince from the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.¹⁴ And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set a fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments on No.¹⁵ And I will pour my wrath on Sin, the stronghold of Egypt; and I will cut off the multitude of No.¹⁶ And I will set a fire in Egypt: Sin shall be in great anguish, and No shall be broken up; and Memphis [shall have] anguish daily.¹⁷ The young men of On and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword; and these [cities] shall go into captivity.¹⁸ At Tehaphnehes also the day shall withdraw itself, when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt, and the pride of her power shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity.¹⁹ Thus I will execute judgments on Egypt; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.

²⁰ And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first [month], in the seventh [day] of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,²¹ Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, look, it has not been bound up, to apply [healing] medicines, to put a bandage to bind it, that it is strong to hold the sword.²² Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Look, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong [arm], and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.²³ And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.²⁴ And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand: but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded man.²⁵ And I will hold up the arms of the king of Babylon; and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out on the land of Egypt.²⁶ And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them through the countries; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.