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And her cities shall be in the midst And her arrogant strength shall cease
of the cities that are laid waste. in her;
8 Then they will know that I am the As for her, a cloud shall cover her,
LORD, And her daughters shall go into
When I have set a fire in Egypt captivity.
And all her helpers are destroyed. 19 Thus I will execute judgments on
9 On that day messengers shall go forth Egypt,
from Me in ships Then they shall know that I am the
To make the careless Ethiopians LORD.”’”
afraid, 20
And great anguish shall come upon And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in
them, the first month, on the seventh day of the
As on the day of Egypt; month, that the word of the LORD came to me,
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For indeed it is coming!” saying, “Son of man, I have broken the arm
of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and see, it has not
10 ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: been bandaged for healing, nor a splint put on
“I will also make a multitude of Egypt to to bind it, to make it strong enough to hold a
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cease sword. Therefore thus says the Lord GOD:
By the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of ‘Surely I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt,
Babylon. and will break his arms, both the strong one
He and his people with him, the most and the one that was broken; and I will make
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terrible of the nations, the sword fall out of his hand. I will scatter
Shall be brought to destroy the land; the Egyptians among the nations, and dis-
They shall draw their swords against perse them throughout the countries. I will
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Egypt, strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon
And fill the land with the slain. and put My sword in his hand; but I will break
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I will make the rivers dry, Pharaoh’s arms, and he will groan before him
And sell the land into the hand of the with the groanings of a mortally wounded
wicked; man. Thus I will strengthen the arms of the
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I will make the land waste, and all that king of Babylon, but the arms of Pharaoh shall
is in it, fall down; they shall know that I am the LORD,
By the hand of aliens. when I put My sword into the hand of the king
I, the LORD, have spoken.”
of Babylon and he stretches it out against the
13 ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: land of Egypt. I will scatter the Egyptians
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among the nations and disperse them through-
“I will also destroy the idols,
And cause the images to cease from out the countries. Then they shall know that I
Noph; am the LORD.’ ”
There shall no longer be princes from Psalm 129:5–8
the land of Egypt;
I will put fear in the land of Egypt. 5 Let all those who hate Zion
I will make Pathros desolate,
14 Be put to shame and turned back.
Set fire to Zoan, 6 Let them be as the grass on the
And execute judgments in No. housetops,
15 I will pour My fury on Sin, Which withers before it grows up,
the strength of Egypt; 7 With which the reaper does not fill
I will cut off the multitude of No, his hand,
And set a fire in Egypt; Nor he who binds sheaves, his arms.
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Sin shall have great pain, 8 Neither let those who pass by
No shall be split open, them say,
And Noph shall be in distress daily. “The blessing of the LORD be
The young men of Aven and Pi Beseth upon you;
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shall fall by the sword, We bless you in the name
And these cities shall go into of the LORD!”
captivity.
At Tehaphnehes the day shall
18 Proverbs 28:27
also be darkened, 27 He who gives to the poor will not lack,
When I break the yokes But he who hides his eyes will have
of Egypt there. many curses.
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