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Chapter 30 |
| 1 | The word of
the LORD came again unto me, saying, |
| 2 | Son of man, prophesy and say,
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Howl ye, Woe worth the day! |
| 3 | For the day is
near, even the day of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of
the heathen. |
| 4
| And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great pain 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 Libya, and Lydia, and all the mingled people, and Chub, and the men of the
land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword. |
| 6 | Thus saith
the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power
shall come down: from the tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword,
saith the Lord GOD. |
| 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 the LORD, when
I have set a fire in Egypt, and when all her helpers shall be destroyed.
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| 9 | In that day shall messengers go forth from me in ships to make the
careless Ethiopians afraid, and great pain shall come upon them, as in the day
of Egypt: for, lo, it cometh. |
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10 | Thus saith the Lord GOD; 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 to destroy the land: and they shall draw their swords against
Egypt, and fill the land with the slain. |
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12 | And I will make the rivers
dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked: and I will make the land
waste, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the LORD have
spoken it. |
| 13
| Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also destroy the idols,
and I will cause their images to cease out of Noph; and there shall be no more
a prince of 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 fire in
Zoan, and will execute judgments in No. |
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15 | And I will pour my fury
upon Sin, the strength of Egypt; and I will cut off the multitude of No.
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| 16 | And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall have great pain, and No shall be
rent asunder, and Noph shall have distresses daily. |
| 17 | The young
men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword: and these cities shall go
into captivity. |
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18 | At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened, when
I shall break there the yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of her strength shall
cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go
into captivity. |
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19 | Thus will I execute judgments in Egypt: and they
shall know that I am the LORD. |
| 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 the LORD came unto me, saying, |
| 21 | Son of man, I have broken the
arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed,
to put a roller to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword. |
| 22 |
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt,
and will break his arms, the strong, and that which was broken; and I will
cause the sword to fall out of his hand. |
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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 Pharaoh's arms, and he shall
groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded man. |
| 25 | But
I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh
shall fall down; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall put my
sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out upon
the land of Egypt. |
| 26 | And I will scatter the Egyptians among the
nations, and disperse them among the countries; and they shall know that I am
the LORD. |
