| 1 | The word of the Lord came again to me, saying, |
| 2 | Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus says the Lord God: Wail, Alas for 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 doom] for the nations. |
| 4 | And a sword shall come upon Egypt, and anguish
and
great sorrow shall be in Ethiopia (Cush), when the slain fall in Egypt and they [of Babylon] carry away her great mass of people
and
of things and her foundations are broken down. |
| 5 | Ethiopia (Cush) and Put, Lud and all the mingled people [foreigners living in Egypt], Cub (Lub, Libya) and the children of the land of the covenant [the Jews who had taken refuge in Egypt] shall fall with [the Egyptians] by the sword. |
| 6 | Thus says the Lord: They also who uphold
or
lean upon
and
are supported by Egypt shall fall, and the pride of her power shall come down; from Migdol [in the north] to Syene [in the south] they shall fall within her by the sword, says the Lord God. |
| 7 | And they shall be desolated in the midst of countries that are desolated, and her cities shall be in the midst of cities that are wasted [by plunder and subjection]. |
| 8 | And they shall know (understand and realize) that I am the Lord [the Sovereign Ruler, Who calls forth loyalty and obedient service], when I have set a fire in Egypt and all her helpers are broken
and
destroyed. |
| 9 | In that day shall [swift] messengers go forth from Me in ships to terrify the careless
and
unsuspecting Ethiopians, and there shall be anguish
and
great sorrow upon them as in the day of Egypt’s [doom], for behold, [their day] comes! |
| 10 | Thus says the Lord God: I will also make the tumult
and
the wealth
and
the large population of Egypt to cease by the hand of
[a]Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon. |
| 11 | He and his people with him, the [most] 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 [artificial] streams [of the Nile delta] dry and will sell the land into the hand of evil men, and I will make the land desolate, and all that is in it, by the hand of strangers. I the Lord [the Sovereign Ruler, Who calls forth loyalty and obedient service] have spoken it. |
| 13 | Thus says the Lord God: I will also destroy the idols and I will put an end to the images in Noph
or
Memphis, and there shall be no longer a prince of the land of Egypt. And I will put fear in the land of Egypt. |
| 14 | And I will make Pathros desolate and will set fire to Zoan and will execute judgments
and
punishments upon No
or
Thebes. |
| 15 | And I will pour My wrath upon Pelusium, the stronghold of Egypt, and I will cut off the tumult, the prosperity
and
the population of No
or
Thebes. |
| 16 | And I will set fire to Egypt; Pelusium shall have great anguish and No
or
Thebes shall be torn open and Noph
or
Memphis shall have adversaries in the daytime
and
all the day long. |
| 17 | The young men of Aven
or
On and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword, and the [women and children] shall go into captivity. |
| 18 | At Tehaphnehes also the day shall withdraw itself
and
be dark when I break there the yokes
and
dominion of Egypt, and the pride of her power shall come to an end. As for her, a cloud [of calamities] shall cover her and her daughters shall go into captivity. |
| 19 | Thus will I execute judgments
and
punishments upon Egypt. Then shall they know (understand and realize) that I am the Lord [the Sovereign Ruler, Who calls forth loyalty and obedient service]. |
| 20 | And in the eleventh year [after King Jehoiachin was taken to Babylon], in the first month, on the seventh day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, |
| 21 | Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and behold, it has not been bound up to heal it by binding it with a bandage, to make it strong to hold
and
wield the sword. |
| 22 | Therefore thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt and will break his arms, both the strong one and the one which was broken, and I will cause the sword to fall from his hand. |
| 23 | And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and will disperse them throughout 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 will groan before [Nebuchadrezzar] with the groanings of a mortally wounded man. |
| 25 | But I will strengthen
and
hold up the arms of the king of Babylon and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down, and they [of Egypt] shall know (understand and realize) that I am the Lord [the Sovereign Ruler, Who calls forth loyalty and obedient service], when I 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 through the countries, and they shall know (understand and realize) that I am the Lord [the Sovereign Ruler, Who calls forth loyalty and obedient service]. |
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