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Chapter 29 |
| 1 | In the tenth
year, in the tenth month, in the twelfth day of the month, the word of the LORD
came unto me, saying, |
| 2 | Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king
of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against all Egypt: |
| 3 | Speak, and
say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt,
the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My
river is mine own, and I have made it for myself. |
| 4 | But I will put
hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy
scales, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the
fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales. |
| 5 | And I will
leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers:
thou shalt fall upon the open fields; thou shalt not be brought together, nor
gathered: I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the field and to the
fowls of the heaven. |
| 6 | And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know
that I am the LORD, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of
Israel. |
| 7 |
When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and
rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and
madest all their loins to be at a stand. |
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8 | Therefore thus saith the
Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and cut off man and beast out
of thee. |
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| And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; and
they shall know that I am the LORD: because he hath said, The river is mine,
and I have made it. |
| 10 | Behold, therefore I am against thee, and
against thy rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and
desolate, from the tower of Syene even unto 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. |
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12 | And I will make the
land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her
cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and
I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through
the countries. |
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13 | Yet thus saith the Lord GOD; At the end of forty
years will I gather the Egyptians from the people whither they were
scattered: |
| 14
| And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will
cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their
habitation; and they shall be there a base kingdom. |
| 15 | It shall be
the basest of the kingdoms; neither shall it exalt itself any more above the
nations: for 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, which bringeth their iniquity to remembrance, when they shall look
after them: but they shall know that I am the Lord GOD. |
| 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 the LORD came unto me, saying, |
| 18 | Son of
man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service
against Tyrus: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled: yet had
he no wages, nor his army, for Tyrus, for the service that he had served
against it: |
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19 | Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will
give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take
her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages
for his army. |
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20 | I have given him the land of Egypt for his labour
wherewith he served against it, because they wrought for me, saith the Lord
GOD. |
| 21 |
In that day will I cause the horn of the house of Israel to
bud forth, and I will give thee the opening of the mouth in the midst of them;
and they shall know that I am the LORD. |
