Ezekiel

29

¹In the tenth year, on the twelfth day of the tenth month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ²“Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt and prophesy against him and against all Egypt.[ † ]Ezekiel 28:21Isaiah 19:1Jeremiah 25:19Jeremiah 46:2-25Ezekiel 30:1-32:32Joel 3:19

³Speak to him and tell him that this is what the Lord God says: Behold, I am against you, O Pharaoh king of Egypt, O great monster who lies among his rivers, who says, ‘The Nile is mine; I made it myself.’

⁴But I will put hooks in your jaws

and cause the fish of your streams

to cling to your scales.

I will haul you up out of your rivers,

and all the fish of your streams

will cling to your scales.

⁵I will leave you in the desert,

you and all the fish of your streams.

You will fall on the open field

and will not be taken away

or gathered for burial.

I have given you as food

to the beasts of the earth

and the birds of the air.

⁶Then all the people of Egypt

will know that I am the Lord.

For you were only a staff of reeds

to the house of Israel.

⁷When Israel took hold of you with their hands,

you splintered, tearing all their shoulders;

when they leaned on you,

you broke, and their backs were wrenched.

⁸Therefore this is what the Lord God says: I will bring a sword against you and cut off from you man and beast.[ † ]Jeremiah 46:13Ezekiel 14:17Ezekiel 32:11-13

⁹The land of Egypt will become a desolate wasteland. Then they will know that I am the Lord. Because you said, ‘The Nile is mine; I made it,’[ † ]Ezekiel 30:7-8 ¹⁰therefore I am against you and against your rivers. I will turn the land of Egypt into a ruin, a desolate wasteland from Migdol to Syene, and as far as the border of Cush.[ † ]Ezekiel 30:12Ezekiel 30:6 ¹¹No foot of man or beast will pass through, and it will be uninhabited for forty years.[ † ]Jeremiah 43:11-12Jeremiah 46:19Ezekiel 32:13

¹²I will make the land of Egypt a desolation among desolate lands, and her cities will lie desolate for forty years among the ruined cities. And I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them throughout the countries.[ † ]Jeremiah 25:15-19Jeremiah 27:6-11Ezekiel 30:7-26Jeremiah 46:19Ezekiel 30:23-26

¹³For this is what the Lord God says: At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the nations to which they were scattered.[ † ]Isaiah 19:23Jeremiah 46:26 ¹⁴I will restore Egypt from captivity and bring them back to the land of Pathros, the land of their origin. There they will be a lowly kingdom.[ † ]Ezekiel 17:6-14

¹⁵Egypt will be the lowliest of kingdoms and will never again exalt itself above the nations. For I will diminish Egypt so that it will never again rule over the nations. ¹⁶Egypt will never again be an object of trust for the house of Israel, but will remind them of their iniquity in turning to the Egyptians. Then they will know that I am the Lord God.”[ † ]Isaiah 30:2-3Isaiah 36:4-6Lamentations 4:17Ezekiel 17:15Ezekiel 29:6

¹⁷In the twenty-seventh year, on the first day of the first month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ¹⁸“Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to labor strenuously against Tyre. Every head was made bald and every shoulder made raw. But he and his army received no wages from Tyre for the labor they expended on it.[ † ]Jeremiah 25:9Jeremiah 27:6Ezekiel 26:7-12Jeremiah 48:37Ezekiel 27:31

¹⁹Therefore this is what the Lord God says: I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who will carry off its wealth, seize its spoil, and remove its plunder. This will be the wages for his army.[ † ]Jeremiah 43:10-13Ezekiel 30:10 ²⁰I have given him the land of Egypt as the reward for his labor, because it was done for Me, declares the Lord God.[ † ]Isaiah 10:6-7Isaiah 45:1-3Jeremiah 25:9

²¹In that day I will cause a horn to sprout for the house of Israel, and I will open your mouth to speak among them. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”[ † ]1 Samuel 2:10Psalms 92:10Psalms 132:17Ezekiel 24:27Amos 3:7-8Luke 21:15