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In the ^(C1)tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

"Son of man, set your face against ^(C1)Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him and against all ^(C2)Egypt.

"Speak and say, 'This is what the Lord ^(F1)GOD says: "Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, The great ^(F2)(C1)monster that lies in the midst of his ^(F3)canals, That ^(C2)has said, 'My Nile is mine, and I myself have made it.'

-"I will put ^(C1)hooks in your jaws And make the fish of your ^(F1)canals cling to your scales. And I will bring you up out of the midst of your ^(F1)canals, And all the fish of your ^(F1)canals will cling to your scales.

-"I will ^(C1)abandon you to the wilderness, you and all the fish of your ^(F1)canals; You will fall on the ^(F2)open field; you will not be brought together or ^(F3)(C2)gathered. I have given you for ^(C3)food to the animals of the earth and to the birds of the sky.

-"Then all the inhabitants of Egypt will know that I am the LORD, Because they have been only a ^(C1)staff made of reed to the house of Israel.

-"When they took hold of you with the hand, You ^(C1)broke and tore all their ^(F1)hands; And when they leaned on you, You broke and made all their hips ^(F2)shake."

'Therefore the Lord GOD says this: "Behold, I am going to ^(C1)bring upon you a sword, and I will cut off from you human and animal life.

"The ^(C1)land of Egypt will become a desolation and place of ruins. Then they will know that I am the LORD. "Because ^(F1)you ^(C2)said, 'The Nile is mine, and I have made it,'

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therefore, behold, I am ^(C1)against you and against your ^(F1)canals, and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from Migdol to Syene and as far as the border of ^(F2)Cush.

"A human foot will ^(C1)not pass through it, nor will the foot of an animal pass through it, and it will not be inhabited for forty years.

"So I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the ^(C1)midst of deserted lands. And her cities, in the midst of cities that are laid waste, will be desolate for forty years; and I will ^(C2)scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the lands."

'For this is what the Lord GOD says: "At the end of forty years I will ^(C1)gather the Egyptians from the peoples ^(F1)among whom they were scattered.

"And I will restore the fortunes of Egypt and bring them back to the land of ^(C1)Pathros, to the land of their origin, and there they will be a lowly kingdom.

"It will be the ^(C1)lowest of the kingdoms, and it will not raise itself above the nations again. And I will make them small so that they will not ^(C2)rule over the nations.

"And it will no longer be a kingdom on which ^(C1)the house of Israel relies, ^(F1)(C2)bringing to mind the guilt of their having turned ^(F2)to Egypt. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD."'"

Now in the ^(C1)twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

"Son of man, ^(C1)Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made his army labor ^(F1)hard against Tyre; every head ^(F2)had a ^(C2)bald spot and every shoulder was rubbed raw. But he and his army acquired no wages from Tyre for the labor that he had ^(F3)performed against it."

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: "Behold, I am going to ^(C1)give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. And he will carry off her ^(C2)wealth and capture her spoils and seize her plunder; and it will be wages for his army.

"I have given him the land of Egypt for his labor which he ^(F1)(C1)performed, because they acted for Me," declares the Lord GOD.

"On that day I will make a ^(C1)horn sprout for the house of Israel, and I will ^(F1)(C2)open your mouth among them. Then they will know that I am the LORD."

The word of the LORD came again to me, saying,

"Son of man, prophesy and say, 'This is what the Lord ^(F1)GOD says: "^(C1)Wail, 'Woe for the day!'

-"For the day is near, Indeed, ^(C1)the day of the LORD is near; It will be a day of ^(C2)clouds, A time of doom for the nations.

-"A sword will come upon Egypt, And there will be trembling in ^(F1)Cush; When the slain fall in Egypt, They will ^(C1)take away her ^(F2)wealth, And her foundations will be torn down.

"^(F1)Cush, Put, Lud, all ^(F2)(C1)Arabia, ^(F3)Libya and the ^(F4)people of the land ^(F5)that is in league will fall with them by the sword."

'This is what the LORD says: "Indeed, those who support ^(C1)Egypt will fall And the pride of her power will come down; From Migdol to Syene They will fall within her by the sword," Declares the Lord GOD.

"They will be desolate In the ^(C1)midst of the desolated lands; And her cities will be In the midst of the devastated cities.

-"And they will ^(C1)know that I am the LORD, When I set a ^(C2)fire in Egypt And all her helpers are broken.

"On that day ^(C1)messengers will go out from Me in ships to frighten ^(C2)carefree ^(F1)Cush; and ^(C3)trembling will come on them as on the day of Egypt; for behold, it is coming!"

'This is what the Lord GOD says: "^(C1)I will also make the ^(F1)hordes of Egypt cease By the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.

-"He and his people with him, ^(C1)The most ruthless of the nations, Will be brought in to destroy the land; And they will draw their swords against Egypt And fill the land with the slain.

-"Moreover, I will make the ^(C1)Nile canals dry And ^(C2)sell the land into the hands of evil men. And I will make the land desolate And ^(F1)all that is in it, By the hand of strangers; I the LORD have spoken."

'This is what the Lord GOD says: "I will also ^(C1)destroy the idols And make the ^(F1)images cease from ^(F2)(C2)Memphis. And there will no longer be a prince in the land of Egypt; And I will put fear in the land of Egypt.

-"I will make ^(C1)Pathros desolate, Set a fire in ^(C2)Zoan And execute judgments on ^(F1)(C3)Thebes.

-"I will pour out My wrath on ^(F1)Sin, The stronghold of Egypt; I will also eliminate the hordes of ^(F2)Thebes.

-"I will set a fire in Egypt; ^(F1)Sin will writhe in anguish, ^(F2)Thebes will be breached And ^(F3)Memphis will have ^(F4)distresses daily.

-"The young men of ^(F1)(C1)On and of Pi-beseth Will fall by the sword, And ^(F2)the women will go into captivity.

-"In ^(C1)Tehaphnehes the day will ^(F1)be ^(C2)dark When I ^(C3)break there the yoke bars of Egypt. Then the pride of her power will cease in her; A cloud will cover her, And her daughters will go into captivity.

-"So I will ^(C1)execute judgments on Egypt, And they will know that I am the LORD."'"

In the ^(C1)eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

"Son of man, I have ^(C1)broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, behold, it has not been ^(C2)bound up ^(F1)for healing ^(F2)or wrapped with a bandage, so that it may be strong to wield the sword.

"Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: 'Behold, I am ^(C1)against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and I will break his arms, both the strong and the ^(C2)broken; and I will make the sword ^(C3)fall from his hand.

'And I will ^(C1)scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the lands.

'For I will ^(C1)strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon and put ^(C2)My sword in his hand; and I will break the arms of Pharaoh, so that he will groan before him with the groans of a wounded man.

'So I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, but the arms of Pharaoh will fail. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I put My sword into the hand of the king of Babylon and he ^(C1)reaches out with it against the land of Egypt.

'When I scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the lands, then they will know that I am the LORD.'"

In the ^(C1)eleventh year, in the third month, on the first of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

"Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his ^(C1)hordes, 'Whom are you like in your greatness?

-'Behold, Assyria was a ^(C1)cedar in Lebanon With beautiful branches and forest shade, And ^(F1)(C2)very high, And its top was among the ^(F2)clouds.

-'The ^(C1)waters made it grow, the ^(F1)deep made it high. With its rivers it continually ^(F2)extended all around its planting place, And sent out its channels to all the trees of the field.

-'Therefore ^(C1)its height was loftier than all the trees of the field And its boughs became many and its branches long Because of ^(C2)many waters ^(F1)as it spread them out.

-'All the ^(C1)birds of the sky nested in its twigs, And under its branches all the animals of the field gave birth, And all great nations lived under its shade.

-'So it was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches; For its ^(F1)roots extended to many waters.

-'The ^(C1)cedars in ^(C2)God's garden ^(F1)could not match it; The junipers ^(F1)could not compare with its branches, And the plane trees ^(F2)could not match its branches. No tree in ^(C2)God's garden ^(F1)could compare with it in its beauty.

-'I made it beautiful with the multitude of its branches, And all the trees of ^(C1)Eden, which were in the ^(C1)garden of God, were jealous of it.

'Therefore this is what the Lord ^(F1)GOD says: "Because ^(F2)it is tall in stature and has put its top among the ^(F3)clouds, and its ^(C1)heart is haughty in its loftiness,

I will hand it over to a ^(F1)(C1)ruler of the nations; he will thoroughly deal with it. In accordance with its wickedness I have ^(C2)driven it out.

"^(C1)Foreign ^(C2)tyrants of the nations have cut it down and left it; on the ^(C3)mountains and in all the valleys its branches have fallen, and its branches have been broken in all the ravines of the land. And all the peoples of the earth have ^(C4)gone down from its shade and left it.

"All the ^(C1)birds of the sky will nest on its fallen trunk, and all the animals of the field will ^(F1)rest on its fallen branches,

so that all the trees by the waters will not be exalted in their stature, nor put their tops among the ^(F1)clouds, nor will any of their ^(F2)well-watered mighty ones stand straight in their height. For they have all been turned over to death, to the ^(C1)earth beneath, among ^(F3)mankind, ^(F4)with those who go down to the pit."

'This is what the Lord GOD says: "On the day when it went down to Sheol I ^(C1)caused mourning; I closed the ^(F1)deep over it and held back its rivers. And its many waters were stopped up, and I made Lebanon mourn for it, and all the trees of the field wilted away on account of it.

"I made the nations ^(C1)quake from the sound of its fall when I made it ^(C2)go down to Sheol with those who go down to the pit; and all the ^(F1)well-watered trees of Eden, the choicest and best of ^(C3)Lebanon, were ^(C4)comforted in the earth beneath.

"They also ^(C1)went down with it to Sheol to those who were ^(C2)slain by the sword; and those who were its ^(F1)strength lived ^(C3)in its shade among the nations.

"To which among the trees of Eden are you so alike in glory and greatness? Yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the earth beneath; you will lie in the midst of the ^(C1)uncircumcised with those who were killed by the sword. ^(C2)This is Pharaoh and all his hordes!"' declares the Lord GOD."