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Ezekiel 29 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Judgment of Egypt

29 In the ^(A)tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ²“Son of man, set your face against ^(B)Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him and against all ^(C)Egypt. ³Speak and say, ‘This is what the Lord ^[a]God says:

“Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt,
The great ^[b]^(D)monster that lies in the midst of his ^[c]canals,
That ^(E)has said, ‘My Nile is mine, and I myself have made it.’
⁴I will put ^(F)hooks in your jaws
And make the fish of your ^[d]canals cling to your scales.
And I will bring you up out of the midst of your ^[e]canals,
And all the fish of your ^[f]canals will cling to your scales.
⁵I will ^(G)abandon you to the wilderness, you and all the fish of your ^[g]canals;
You will fall on the ^[h]open field; you will not be brought together or ^[i]^(H)gathered.
I have given you for ^(I)food to the animals of the earth and to the birds of the sky.
⁶Then all the inhabitants of Egypt will know that I am the Lord,
Because they have been only a ^(J)staff made of reed to the house of Israel.
⁷When they took hold of you with the hand,
You ^(K)broke and tore all their ^[j]hands;
And when they leaned on you,
You broke and made all their hips ^[k]shake.”

⁸‘Therefore the Lord God says this: “Behold, I am going to ^(L)bring upon you a sword, and I will cut off from you human and animal life. ⁹The ^(M)land of Egypt will become a desolation and place of ruins. Then they will know that I am the Lord.

“Because ^[l]you ^(N)said, ‘The Nile is mine, and I have made it,’ ¹⁰therefore, behold, I am ^(O)against you and against your ^[m]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 ^[n]Cush. ¹¹A human foot will ^(P)not pass through it, nor will the foot of an animal pass through it, and it will not be inhabited for forty years. ¹²So I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the ^(Q)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 ^(R)scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the lands.”

¹³‘For this is what the Lord God says: “At the end of forty years I will ^(S)gather the Egyptians from the peoples ^[o]among whom they were scattered. ¹⁴And I will restore the fortunes of Egypt and bring them back to the land of ^(T)Pathros, to the land of their origin, and there they will be a lowly kingdom. ¹⁵It will be the ^(U)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 ^(V)rule over the nations. ¹⁶And it will no longer be a kingdom on which ^(W)the house of Israel relies, ^[p]^(X)bringing to mind the guilt of their having turned ^[q]to Egypt. Then they will know that I am the Lord God.”’”

¹⁷Now in the ^(Y)twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ¹⁸“Son of man, ^(Z)Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made his army labor ^[r]hard against Tyre; every head ^[s]had a ^(AA)bald spot and every shoulder was rubbed raw. But he and his army acquired no wages from Tyre for the labor that he had ^[t]performed against it.” ¹⁹Therefore this is what the Lord God says: “Behold, I am going to ^(AB)give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. And he will carry off her ^(AC)wealth and capture her spoils and seize her plunder; and it will be wages for his army. ²⁰I have given him the land of Egypt for his labor which he ^[u]^(AD)performed, because they acted for Me,” declares the Lord God.

²¹“On that day I will make a ^(AE)horn sprout for the house of Israel, and I will ^[v]^(AF)open your mouth among them. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”

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