Ezekiel 30

¹ Yahweh’s word came again to me, saying,

² “Son of man, prophesy, and say, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Wail, ‘Alas for the day!’

³ For the day is near, even Yahweh’s day is near. It will be a day of clouds, a time of the nations.

⁴ A sword shall come on Egypt, and anguish shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt. They shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down.

⁵ Ethiopia, Put, and Lud, and all the mixed people, and Cub, and the children of the land that is allied with them, shall fall with them by the sword.

⁶ “‘Thus says Yahweh: “They also who uphold Egypt shall fall. The pride of her power shall come down. From the tower of Seveneh they shall fall in her by the sword,” says the Lord Yahweh.

⁷ “They shall be desolate in the middle of the countries that are desolate. Her cities shall be among the cities that are laid waste.

⁸ They shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and all her helpers are destroyed.

⁹ In that day shall messengers go out from before me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid. There shall be anguish on them, as in the day of Egypt; for behold, it comes.”

¹⁰ “‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease, by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.

¹¹ He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought in to destroy the land. They shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.

¹² I will make the rivers dry, and will sell the land into the hand of evil men. I will make the land desolate, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers. I, Yahweh, have spoken it.”

¹³ “‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause the images to cease from Memphis. There shall be no more a prince from the land of Egypt. I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.

¹⁴ I will make Pathros desolate, and will set a fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments on No.

¹⁵ I will pour my wrath on Sin, the stronghold of Egypt. I will cut off the multitude of No.

¹⁶ I will set a fire in Egypt. Sin shall be in great anguish. No shall be broken up. Memphis shall have adversaries in the daytime.

¹⁷ The young men of Aven and of Pi-beseth shall fall by the sword. These cities shall go into captivity.

¹⁸ At Tehaphnehes also the day shall withdraw itself, when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt. The pride of her power shall cease in her. As for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity.

¹⁹ Thus will I execute judgments on Egypt. Then they shall know that I am Yahweh.’”

²⁰ It happened in the eleventh year, in the first month, in the seventh day of the month, that Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

²¹ “Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Behold, it has not been bound up, to apply medicines, to put a bandage to bind it, that it become strong to hold the sword.

²² Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong arm, and that which was broken. I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.

²³ I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.

²⁴ I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand. But I will break Pharaoh’s arms, and he shall groan before him with the groaning of a deadly wounded man.

²⁵ I will hold up the arms of the king of Babylon, but the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down. They shall know that I am Yahweh, when I put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he stretches it out on the land of Egypt.

²⁶ I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them through the countries. Then they shall know that I am Yahweh.”