1 The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying, 2 Son of man,
prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Wail, Alas for the day!
3 For the day is near, even the day of Yahweh is near; it shall be a day
of clouds, a time of the nations. 4 A sword shall come on Egypt, and
anguish shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt; and they
shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down.
5 Ethiopia, and Put, and Lud, and all the mixed people, and Cub, and the
children of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword.
6 Thus says Yahweh: They also who uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride
of her power shall come down: from the tower of Seveneh shall they fall in it
by the sword, says the Lord Yahweh. 7 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. 8 They shall know that I am Yahweh, when I
have set a fire in Egypt, and all her helpers are destroyed. 9 In that day
shall messengers go forth from before me in ships to make the careless
Ethiopians afraid; and there shall be anguish on them, as in the day of
Egypt; for, behold, it comes. 10 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also
make the multitude of Egypt to cease, by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon. 11 He and his people with him, the 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 I will make the rivers dry,
and will sell the land into the hand of evil men; and I will make the land
desolate, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I, Yahweh, have
spoken it. 13 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also destroy the idols,
and I will cause the images to cease from Memphis; and there shall be no more
a prince from the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.
14 I will make Pathros desolate, and will set a fire in Zoan, and will
execute judgments on No. 15 I will pour my wrath on Sin, the stronghold of
Egypt; and I will cut off the multitude of No. 16 I will set a fire in
Egypt: Sin shall be in great anguish, and No shall be broken up; and Memphis
shall have adversaries in the day-time. 17 The young men of Aven
and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword; and these cities shall go
into captivity. 18 At Tehaphnehes also the day shall withdraw itself, when
I shall break there the yokes of Egypt, and the pride of her power shall
cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go
into captivity. 19 Thus will I execute judgments on Egypt; and they shall
know that I am Yahweh. 20 It happened in the eleventh year, in the first
month, in the seventh day of the month, that the word of
Yahweh 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 apply
healing medicines, to put a bandage to bind it, that it be strong to
hold the sword. 22 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am
against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong
arm, and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall
out of his hand. 23 I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and
will disperse them through the countries. 24 I will strengthen the arms of
the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand: but I will break the arms
of Pharaoh, and he shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly
wounded man. 25 I will hold up the arms of the king of Babylon; and the
arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I
shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch
it out on the land of Egypt. 26 I will scatter the Egyptians among the
nations, and disperse them through the countries; and they shall know that I
am Yahweh.
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