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speak, and say, Thus says the Lord God : "Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lies in the midst of his streams, that says, ‘My Nile is my own; I made it for myself.'

Therefore thus says the Lord God : Behold, I will bring a sword upon you, and will cut off from you man and beast,

"For thus says the Lord God : At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples among whom they were scattered,

And it shall never again be the reliance of the house of Israel, recalling their iniquity, when they turn to them for aid. Then they will know that I am the Lord God ."

Therefore thus says the Lord God : Behold, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and he shall carry off its wealth and despoil it and plunder it; and it shall be the wages for his army.

I have given him the land of Egypt as his payment for which he labored, because they worked for me, declares the Lord God .

"Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord God : "Wail, ‘Alas for the day!'

"Thus says the Lord : Those who support Egypt shall fall, and her proud might shall come down; from Migdol to Syene they shall fall within her by the sword, declares the Lord God .

"Thus says the Lord God : "I will put an end to the wealth of Egypt, by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.

"Thus says the Lord God : "I will destroy the idols and put an end to the images in Memphis; there shall no longer be a prince from the land of Egypt; so I will put fear in the land of Egypt.

Therefore thus says the Lord God : Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt and will break his arms, both the strong arm and the one that was broken, and I will make the sword fall from his hand.

The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it, nor the fir trees equal its boughs; neither were the plane trees like its branches; no tree in the garden of God was its equal in beauty.

I made it beautiful in the mass of its branches, and all the trees of Eden envied it, that were in the garden of God.

"Therefore thus says the Lord God : Because it towered high and set its top among the clouds, and its heart was proud of its height,

"Thus says the Lord God : On the day the cedar went down to Sheol I caused mourning; I closed the deep over it, and restrained its rivers, and many waters were stopped. I clothed Lebanon in gloom for it, and all the trees of the field fainted because of it.

"Whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? You shall be brought down with the trees of Eden to the world below. You shall lie among the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword. "This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, declares the Lord God ."

Thus says the Lord God : I will throw my net over you with a host of many peoples, and they will haul you up in my dragnet.

All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over you, and put darkness on your land, declares the Lord God .

"For thus says the Lord God : The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon you.

Then I will make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to run like oil, declares the Lord God .