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tered, and shalbe sanctified in them in the sight for fourtie yeeres: and I wil scatter the Egyp-
of the heathen, then shall they dwel in the land, tians among the nations, and wil disperse them
that I haue giuen to my seruant Iaakob. 26 And through the countreis. 13 Yet thus saieth the Lord
they shall dwell safely therein, and shall builde God, At the end of fourtie yeeres will I gather
houses, and plant vineyards: yea, they shall dwell the Egyptians from the people, where they were
safely, when I haue executed iudgements vpon al scattered, 14 And I wil bring againe the captiuitie
round about them that despise them, and they of Egypt, and will cause them to returne into the
shall knowe that I am the Lord their God. land of Pathros, into the lande of their habitation,
and they shalbe there a small kingdome. 15 It
shall be the smallest of the kingdomes, neither
29 shall it exalt it selfe any more aboue the nations:

1 In the tenth yeere, and in the tenth moneth for I will diminish them, that they shall no more
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in the twelfth day of the moneth, the word of rule the nations. And it shall be no more
the confidence of the house of Israel, to bring
the Lord came vnto me, saying, Sonne of man, their iniquitie to remembrance by looking after
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set thy face against Pharaoh the King of Egypt, them, so shall they knowe, that I am the Lord
and prophecie against him, and against all Egypt. God. 17 In the seuen and twentieth yeere also
3 Speake, and say, Thus sayth the Lord God, in the first moneth, and in the first day of the
Beholde, I come against thee, Pharaoh King of moneth, came the word of the Lord vnto me,
Egypt, the great dragon, that lieth in the middes saying, 18 Sonne of man, Nebuchad-nezzar King
of his riuers, which hath saide, The riuer is mine, of Babel caused his armie to serue a great seruice
and I haue made it for my selfe. 4 But I will put against Tyrus: euery head was made balde, and
hookes in thy chawes, and I will cause the fish euery shoulder was made bare: yet had he no
of thy riuers to sticke vnto thy scales, and I will wages, nor his armie for Tyrus, for the seruice
drawe thee out of the middes of thy riuers, and that he serued against it. 19 Therefore thus sayth
all the fishe of thy riuers shall sticke vnto thy the Lord God, Beholde, I will giue the land of
scales. 5 And I will leaue thee in the wildernes, Egypt vnto Nebuchad-nezzar the King of Babel,
both thee and al the fish of thy riuers: thou shalt and he shall take her multitude, and spoyle her
fal vpon ye open field: thou shalt not be brought spoyle, and take her pray, and it shall be the
together, nor gathered: for I haue giue thee for wages for his armie. 20 I haue giuen him the land
meat to the beasts of the field, and to the foules
of heauen. And al the inhabitants of Egypt shall of Egypt for his labour, that he serued against
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know that I am the Lord, because they haue ben a it, because they wrought for me, sayth the Lord
staffe of reede to the house of Israel. When they God. 21 In that day will I cause the horne of the
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tooke holde of thee with their hand, thou diddest house of Israel to growe, and I will giue thee an
breake, and rent all their shoulder: and when open mouth in the middes of them, and they shall
they leaned vpon thee, thou brakest and madest knowe that I am the Lord.
all their loynes to stand vpright. 8 Therefore
thus sayeth the Lord God, Beholde, I will bring a 30
sworde vpon thee, and destroy man and beast out 1 The worde of the Lord came againe vnto me,
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of thee, And the land of Egypt shalbe desolate, saying, Sonne of man, prophesie, and say, Thus
and waste, and they shall know that I am ye Lord: sayth the Lord God, Howle and cry, Wo be vnto
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because he hath said, The riuer is mine, and I this day. For the day is neere, and the day of the
haue made it, 10 Behold, therefore I come vpon Lord is at hand, a cloudie day, and it shall be the
thee, and vpon thy riuers, and I will make the time of the heathen. And the sword shall come
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land of Egypt vtterly waste and desolate from the vpon Egypt, and feare shall be in Ethiopia, when
towre of Seueneh, euen vnto the borders of the the slaine shall fall in Egypt, when they shall take
blacke Mores. 11 No foote of man shall passe by it, away her multitude, and when her foundations
nor foote of beast shall passe by it, neither shall shall be broken downe. Ethiopia and Phut, and
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it be inhabited fourtie yeeres. 12 And I wil make Lud, and all the common people, and Cub, and
the land of Egypt desolate in the middes of the the men of the land, that is in league, shall fall
countries, that are desolate, and her cities shall with them by the sword. 6 Thus sayth the Lord,
be desolate among the cities that are desolate, They also that mainteine Egypt, shall fall, and