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The traders of Sheba and Raamah were trading with you, with the finest of every spice and with every precious stone and gold; they exchanged all these for your merchandise.

The ships of Tarshish were carrying for you your wares, and you were filled, and you became very heavy in the heart of the seas.

They will shave themselves bald for your sake, and they will dress themselves in sackcloth, and they will weep over you with a bitterness of soul and with bitter wailing.

By your wisdom and by your understanding you have gained for yourself wealth, and you have amassed gold and silver in your treasuries.

You will die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers, for I myself have spoken!" declares the Lord Yahweh.

Your heart was proud because of your beauty; you ruined your wisdom because of your splendor. I threw you on the ground before kings; I have exposed you for viewing.

And there will not be any longer a painful thorn and a sharp thornbush for the house of Israel from anywhere around them from those who are despising them, and they will know that I am the Lord Yahweh."'"

Speak, and you must say, ‘thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Look! I am against you, Pharaoh, king of Egypt, the great sea monster, the one lying down in the midst of his Nile streams, who says to me, "It is my Nile, and I made it for myself."

And all of the inhabitants of Egypt will know that I am Yahweh, because of their being a staff of reed for the house of Israel.

A foot of a human will not pass over it, and a foot of an animal will not pass over it, and so it will not be inhabited for forty years.

And I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of desolated countries, and its cities to be in the midst of ruined cities. They will be a desolation for forty years, and I will scatter Egypt among the nations, and I will disperse them among the countries."

For thus says the Lord Yahweh: "At the end of forty years I will gather Egypt from the peoples among whom they were scattered.

And it will not be again for the house of Israel an object of trust, bringing to remembrance their guilt when they turned back to them, and they will know that I am the Lord Yahweh."

"Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, he made his army labor hard against Tyre. Every head was rubbed bare, and every shoulder was rubbed raw, but a wage was not paid for him and for his army from Tyre for the labor that he did against it."

Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Look! I am giving to Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon the land of Egypt, and he will carry its wealth away, and he will plunder its plunder, and he will loot its loot, and it will be a wage for his army.

As his wages that he worked for, I will give to him the land of Egypt, because they worked for me," declares the Lord Yahweh.

"On that day I will cause power to grow up for the house of Israel, and for you I will give an opening of your mouth in the midst of them, and they will know that I am Yahweh."

"Son of man, prophesy, and you must say, ‘thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Wail, alas! For the day!

For a day is near; indeed, a day is near for Yahweh. A day of cloud, a time of the nations it will be.

On that day messengers will go down from before me in the ships to terrify unsuspecting Cush, and anguish will be in them on the day of Egypt; for look, it is coming!"