Chapter
Ezekiel 30

Book of Ezekiel - Chapter 30

Ezekiel 30:1

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

Ezekiel 30:2

Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord the LORD: Wail, Alas for the day!

Ezekiel 30:3

For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near; it shall be a day of clouds, a time of the nations.

Ezekiel 30:4

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.

Ezekiel 30:5

Ethiopia, and Put, and Lud, and all the mixed people, and Cub, and the children of the land that is allied with them, shall fall with them by the sword.

Ezekiel 30:6

Thus says the LORD: 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 the LORD.

Ezekiel 30:7

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.

Ezekiel 30:8

They shall know that I am the LORD, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and all her helpers are destroyed.

Ezekiel 30:9

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.

Ezekiel 30:10

Thus says the Lord the LORD: I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease, by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.

Ezekiel 30:11

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.

Ezekiel 30:12

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, the LORD, have spoken it.

Ezekiel 30:13

Thus says the Lord the LORD: 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.

Ezekiel 30:14

I will make Pathros desolate, and will set a fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments on No.

Ezekiel 30:15

I will pour my wrath on Sin, the stronghold of Egypt; and I will cut off the multitude of No.

Ezekiel 30:16

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 daytime.

Ezekiel 30:17

The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword; and these [cities] shall go into captivity.

Ezekiel 30:18

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.

Ezekiel 30:19

Thus will I execute judgments on Egypt; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

Ezekiel 30:20

It happened in the eleventh year, in the first [month], in the seventh [day] of the month, that the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Ezekiel 30:21

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.

Ezekiel 30:22

Therefore thus says the Lord the LORD: 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.

Ezekiel 30:23

I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.

Ezekiel 30:24

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.

Ezekiel 30:25

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 the LORD, 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.

Ezekiel 30:26

I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them through the countries; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

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