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5 I will leave you in the wilderness, labor which they expended on it. Therefore
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You and all the fish of your rivers; thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Surely I will give the
You shall fall on the open field; land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of
You shall not be picked up or gathered. Babylon; he shall take away her wealth, carry
I have given you as food off her spoil, and remove her pillage; and that
To the beasts of the field will be the wages for his army. I have given
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And to the birds of the heavens. him the land of Egypt for his labor, because
they worked for Me,’ says the Lord GOD.
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‘In that day I will cause the horn of the
Shall know that I am the LORD, house of Israel to spring forth, and I will open
Because they have been a staff of reed your mouth to speak in their midst. Then they
to the house of Israel.
7 When they took hold of you with shall know that I am the LORD.’ ”
the hand,
You broke and tore all their shoulders;
When they leaned on you,
You broke and made all their backs
quiver.” 29:21 I will cause the horn…to spring forth.
God caused Israel’s power to return and
8 ‘Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: “Surely restored her authority as the power in an ani-
I will bring a sword upon you and cut off from mal’s horn (1 Sam. 2:1). Though other nations
you man and beast. And the land of Egypt subdued her, her latter end in messianic times
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shall become desolate and waste; then they will will be blessed. I will open your mouth. Most
know that I am the LORD, because he said, ‘The likely this refers to the day when Ezekiel’s writ-
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River is mine, and I have made it.’ Indeed, ings would be understood by looking back at
therefore, I am against you and against your their fulfillment. His muteness had already
rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utter- ceased in 586/585 B.C. when Jerusalem fell
ly waste and desolate, from Migdol to Syene, (33:21,22).
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as far as the border of Ethiopia. Neither foot
of man shall pass through it nor foot of beast
pass through it, and it shall be uninhabited The word of the LORD came to me
forty years. I will make the land of Egypt des- 30 again, saying, “Son of man, prophesy
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olate in the midst of the countries that are des- and say, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD:
olate; and among the cities that are laid waste, “Wail, ‘Woe to the day!’
her cities shall be desolate forty years; and I 3 For the day is near,
will scatter the Egyptians among the nations Even the day of the LORD is near;
and disperse them throughout the countries.”
13 ‘Yet, thus says the Lord GOD: “At the end of It will be a day of clouds, the time
of the Gentiles.
forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the 4 The sword shall come upon Egypt,
peoples among whom they were scattered. I
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will bring back the captives of Egypt and cause And great anguish shall be
in Ethiopia,
them to return to the land of Pathros, to the When the slain fall in Egypt,
land of their origin, and there they shall be a And they take away her wealth,
lowly kingdom. It shall be the lowliest of king- And her foundations are broken down.
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doms; it shall never again exalt itself above the
nations, for I will diminish them so that they 5 “Ethiopia, Libya, Lydia, all the mingled people,
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will not rule over the nations anymore. No Chub, and the men of the lands who are allied,
longer shall it be the confidence of the house shall fall with them by the sword.”
of Israel, but will remind them of their iniquity 6 ‘Thus says the LORD:
when they turned to follow them. Then they “Those who uphold Egypt shall fall,
shall know that I am the Lord GOD.”’”
17 And it came to pass in the twenty-seventh And the pride of her power shall come
down.
year, in the first month, on the first day of the From Migdol to Syene
month, that the word of the LORD came to me, Those within her shall fall by the
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saying, “Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of sword,”
Babylon caused his army to labor strenuously Says the Lord GOD.
against Tyre; every head was made bald, and
every shoulder rubbed raw; yet neither he nor 7 “They shall be desolate in the midst
his army received wages from Tyre, for the of the desolate countries,
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