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For so says the Lord Jehovah: At the end of forty years, I will gather Egypt from the peoples there where they are scattered.

And it shall not be any more as confidence for the house of Israel, recalling the iniquity of their turning after them. And they shall know that I am the Lord Jehovah.

Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made his army to serve a great service against Tyre. Every head was made bald, and every shoulder was rubbed bare. Yet there was no hireto him or to his army from Tyre, for the servicethat he had served against it.

So the Lord Jehovah says this: Behold, I will give to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon the land of Egypt. And he shall lift up her host and plunder her plunder, and seize her prey. And it shall be hire for his army.

For his labor which he served against it, I have given him the land of Egypt, because they worked for Me, declares the Lord Jehovah.

Son of man, prophesy and say, So says the Lord Jehovah: Howl, Alas for the day!

For the day is near, even the day of Jehovah is near, a day of clouds; it shall be the time of the nations.

In that day messengers shall go out from before Me in ships, to terrify the confident Ethiopia, and anguish shall be on them as on the day of Egypt. For behold it is coming.

And he was fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches. For his root was to many waters.

so I have given him into the mighty hand of the nations. Dealing He shall deal with him; I have expelled him for his evil.

in order that all the trees by the waters may not be exalted in their height, and do not give their top among the thick boughs, and do not stand up in their mighty exaltation, all drinkingwaters. For all of them are given to death tothe earth's lowest parts, in the midst of the sons of men, with those going down into the Pit.

And I will make many people appalled at you, and their kings will be horribly afraid at you, when I make My sword fly before their faces. And they shall quake at every moment, each man for his own life, in the day of your fall.

For so says the Lord Jehovah: The sword of the king of Babylon shall come on you.

In the midst of the slain they have put a bed for her, with all her multitude. Her graves are all around him, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword. Though their terror was given in the land of the living, yet they have bornetheir shame with those going down to the Pit; he is put among the slain.

For I had put his terror in the land of the living, but he will be laid among the uncircumcised, with those slain by the sword, Pharaoh and all his multitude, declares Jehovah.

Son of man, speak to the sons of your people and say to them: When I bring the sword on it, on a land, and take one man from the people of the land, their borders, and set him for a watchman to them,

Say to them, As I live, declares the Lord Jehovah, I do not have delight in the death of the wicked, except in the wicked turning from his way, and so to live. Turn! Turn from yourevil ways! For why will you die, O house ofIsrael?

Though I say to the righteous, Living he shall live, yet he trusts in his own righteousness and commits iniquity, all his righteousness shall not be remembered; but he shall die for his iniquity which he has done.

Son of man, those living in the ruins are speaking, these in the land of Israel, saying, Abraham was one, and he possessed the land; but we are many, the land is given to us for a possession.

For I shall make the land desolate and a waste, and the pride of her strength shall cease. And the heights of Israel shall be a waste that none will go through.