Ezekiel 30:1-26
30 And the word of Jehovah continued to occur to me, saying:
2 “Son of man, prophesy, and you must say,+ ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah has said: “Howl, YOU people, ‘Alas for the day!’+
3 for a day is near, yes, a day belonging to Jehovah is near.+ A day of clouds,+ an appointed time of nations it will prove to be.+
4 And a sword will certainly come into Egypt,+ and severe pains must occur in E·thi·oʹpi·a* when one falls slain in Egypt and they actually take its wealth and its foundations are actually torn down.+
5 E·thi·oʹpi·a+ and Put+ and Lud and all the mixed company*+ and Chub and the sons of the land of the covenant—with them they will fall by the very sword.”’+
6 “This is what Jehovah has said, ‘The supporters of Egypt must also fall, and the pride of its strength must come down.’+
“‘From Migʹdol+ to Sy·eʹne*+ they will fall in it even by the sword,’ is the utterance of the Sovereign Lord Jehovah.
7 ‘They must also be made desolate in the midst of desolated lands, and its own cities will come to be right in the midst of devastated cities.+
8 And they will have to know that I am Jehovah when I set a fire in Egypt and all its helpers are actually broken.+
9 In that day messengers will go forth from before me in the ships,* in order to drive self-confident E·thi·oʹpi·a into trembling.+ And severe pains must occur among them in the day of Egypt, for, look! it must come.’+
10 “This is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah has said, ‘I will also cause the crowd of Egypt to cease by the hand of Neb·u·chad·rezʹzar the king of Babylon.+
11 He and his people with him, the tyrants of [the] nations,+ are being brought in to reduce the land to ruin. And they must draw their swords against Egypt and fill the land with the slain.+
12 And I will make the Nile canals+ dry ground and will sell the land into the hand of bad men,+ and I will cause the land and its fullness to be desolated by the hand of strangers.+ I myself, Jehovah, have spoken.’+
13 “This is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah has said, ‘I will also destroy the dungy idols+ and cause the valueless gods to cease out of Noph,*+ and there will no more prove to be a chieftain out of the land of Egypt; and I shall certainly put fear in the land of Egypt.+
14 And I will bring Pathʹros+ to desolation and set a fire in Zoʹan+ and execute acts of judgment in No.*+
15 And I will pour out my rage+ upon Sin,* the fortress of Egypt, and cut off the crowd of No.+
16 And I will set a fire in Egypt. Sin will without fail be in severe pains, and No itself will come to be for capture by breaches; and as regards Noph—there will be adversaries during the daytime!
17 As for the young men of On*+ and Pi·beʹseth, by the sword they will fall, and into captivity the [cities] themselves will go.
18 And in Te·haphʹne·hes+ the day will actually grow dark, when I break there the yoke bars of Egypt.+ And in her the pride of her strength will actually be made to cease.+ As for her, clouds themselves will cover her,+ and into captivity her own dependent towns* will go.+
19 And I will execute acts of judgment in Egypt;+ and they will have to know that I am Jehovah.’”
20 And it occurred further that in the eleventh year, in the first [month], on the seventh [day] of the month, the word of Jehovah occurred to me, saying:
21 “Son of man, the arm of Pharʹaoh the king of Egypt I shall certainly break,+ and, look! it will not be bound up at all in order to give [it] healing by putting a bandage on for binding it up,+ for it to become strong to take hold of the sword.”
22 “Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah has said, ‘Here I am against Pharʹaoh the king of Egypt,+ and I will break his arms,+ the strong one and the broken one,+ and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.+
23 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the lands.+
24 And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon+ and give my sword into his hand,+ and I will break the arms of Pharʹaoh, and as a deadly wounded one he will certainly do a great deal of groaning before him.+
25 And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the very arms of Pharʹaoh will fall; and they will have to know that I am Jehovah when I give my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon and he actually extends it out against the land of Egypt.+
26 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations+ and disperse them among the lands; and they will have to know that I am Jehovah.’”
Footnotes
^ “Ethiopia,” LXXVg; MTSy, “Cush.”
^ “Mixed company,” MLXX; Sy, “Arabians.”
^ Or, “Aswān.” Heb., Sewe·nehʹ.
^ “In the ships,” M; Lat., in tri·eʹri·bus, “in triremes”; LXXSy, “hastening.”
^ “Noph,” M; LXXSyVg, “Memphis.”
^ “No,” MSy; TVg, “Alexandria.”
^ “Sin,” MTSy; Vg, “Pelusium.”
^ Lit., “Aven,” M; LXXVg, “Heliopolis.”
^ Lit., “her daughters.”
