Ezekiel 30:7

Easy-to-Read Version

Egypt will join the other countries that were destroyed. Its cities will be among those that are in ruins.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
They will be desolateamong desolate lands,and their cities will lieamong ruined cities.

Hebrew Names Version
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.

King James Version
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.

English Standard Version
And they shall be desolated in the midst of desolated countries, and their cities shall be in the midst of cities that are laid waste.

New American Standard Bible
"They will be desolate In the midst of the desolated lands; And her cities will be In the midst of the devastated cities.

New Century Version
They will be the most deserted lands. Egypt's cities will be the worst of cities that lie in ruins.

Amplified Bible
"And they will be desolate In the midst of countries that are desolated; And her cities will be Among cities that are devastated [by plunder and slavery].

World English Bible
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.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And they shall be desolate in the middes of the countries that are desolate, and her cities shall be in the middes of the cities that are wasted.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"They will be desolate In the midst of the desolated lands; And her cities will be In the midst of the devastated cities.

Legacy Standard Bible
"They will be desolateIn the midst of the desolated lands;And her cities will beIn the midst of the cities laid waste.

Berean Standard Bible
They will be desolate among desolate lands, and their cities will lie among ruined cities.

Contemporary English Version
Your nation of Egypt will be the most deserted place on earth, and its cities will lie in complete ruin.

Complete Jewish Bible
"They will be desolate even when compared with other desolate countries, likewise her cities in comparison with other ruined cities.

Darby Translation
And they shall be desolated in the midst of the countries that are desolated, and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted.

George Lamsa Translation
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 lie waste.

Good News Translation
The land will be the most desolate in the world, and its cities will be left totally in ruins.

Lexham English Bible
"And they will be desolate in the midst of desolate countries, and its cities will be in the midst of ruined cities.

Literal Translation
And they will be ruined amidst the lands being wasted. And her cities shall be in the midst of the desolated cities.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
amonge other desolate countrees they shal be made desolate, & amoge other waist cities they shalbe waisted.

American Standard Version
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.

Bible in Basic English
And she will be made waste among the countries which have been made waste, and her towns will be among the towns which are unpeopled.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
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.

King James Version (1611)
And they shall bee desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities shalbe in the midst of the cities that are wasted.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Among other desolate countreys they shalbe made desolate, among other waste cities they shalbe wasted.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And it shall be made desolate in the midst of desolate countries, and their cities shall be desolate in the midst of desolate cities:

English Revised Version
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.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thei schulen be distried in the myddis of londis maad desolat, and the citees therof schulen be in the myddis of citees forsakun.

Update Bible Version
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.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

New English Translation
They will be desolate among desolate lands, and their cities will be among ruined cities.

New King James Version
"They shall be desolate in the midst of the desolate countries, And her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are laid waste.

New Living Translation
Egypt will be desolate, surrounded by desolate nations, and its cities will be in ruins, surrounded by other ruined cities.

New Life Bible
"They will be a waste among the lands that are laid waste. And her cities will be among the destroyed cities.

New Revised Standard
They shall be desolated among other desolated countries, and their cities shall lie among cities laid waste.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So shall they be made desolate in the midst of lands that are desolate,- And :his cities - in the midst of cities that are laid waste, shall be found.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they shall be desolate in the midst of the lands that are desolate, and the cities thereof shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted.

Revised Standard Version
And she shall be desolated in the midst of desolated countries and her cities shall be in the midst of cities that are laid waste.

Young's Literal Translation
And they have been desolated in the midst of desolate lands, And its cities are in the midst of wasted cities.

Contextual Overview

¹ The word of the Lord came to me again. He said, ² "Son of man, speak for me. Say, ‘This is what the Lord God says: "‘Cry and say, "A terrible day is coming." ³ That day is near! Yes, the Lord 's day for judging is near. It will be a cloudy day, the time for judging the nations. ⁴ A sword will come against Egypt! People in Ethiopia will shake with fear, when Egypt falls. The army of Babylon will take the Egyptians as prisoners. Egypt's foundations will be torn down. ⁵ "‘Many people made peace agreements with Egypt. But all those people from Ethiopia, Put, Lud, all Arabia, Libya, and the people of Israel will be destroyed! ⁶ "‘This is what the Lord says: Those who support Egypt will fall! The pride in her power will end. The people in Egypt will be killed in battle, all the way from Migdol to Aswan. This is what the Lord God said! ⁷ Egypt will join the other countries that were destroyed. Its cities will be among those that are in ruins. ⁸ I will start a fire in Egypt, and all her helpers will be destroyed. Then they will know that I am the Lord ! ⁹ "‘At that time I will send out messengers. They will go in ships to carry the bad news to Ethiopia. Ethiopia now feels safe, but the people of Ethiopia will shake with fear when Egypt is punished. That time is coming!'" ¹⁰ This is what the Lord God says: "I will use the king of Babylon. I will use Nebuchadnezzar to destroy the people of Egypt.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Ezekiel 29:12, Ezekiel 32:18-32, Jeremiah 25:18-26, Jeremiah 46:1 - Jeremiah 51:64

Reciprocal: Ezekiel 29:9 - the land Ezekiel 33:28 - and the pomp

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate,.... Or among them, shall be ranked with them, and be as desolate as they are; as Judea and other countries, ravaged by the same enemy:

and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted; undergo the same fate as they have done, as Jerusalem and others. The cities of Egypt were very numerous; Diodorus Siculus n says, that in ancient times Egypt had cities and villages of note, more than 18,000. Herodotus o writes, that it was said, that under King Amasis there were 20,000 cities in it; and the first mentioned writer p says, under Ptolemy Lagus they were reckoned more than 30,000; and, according to Theocritus q, under Ptolemy Philadelphus they were 33,339.

n Bibl. l. 1. p. 19. o Euterpe, sive l. 2. c. 177. p Bibl. l. 1. p. 19. q Idyll. 17. v. 82.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 30:7. Shall be desolate — All these countries shall be desolated, and the places named shall be chief in these desolations.