Ezekiel 30:1-32:32

¹Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

²“Son of man, prophesy and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says:

Wail, ‘Alas

for that day!’

³For the day is near,

the Day of the LORD is near.

It will be a day of clouds,

a time of doom for the nations.

⁴A sword will come against Egypt,

and there will be anguish in Cush

when the slain fall in Egypt,

its wealth is taken away,

and its foundations are torn down.

⁵Cush, Put, and Lud,

and all the various peoples,

as well as Libya and the men of the covenant land,

will fall with Egypt by the sword.

⁶For this is what the LORD says:

The allies of Egypt will fall,

and her proud strength will collapse.

From Migdol to Syene

they will fall by the sword within her,

⁷They will be desolate among desolate lands,

and their cities will lie among ruined cities.

⁸Then they will know that I am the LORD

when I set fire to Egypt

and all her helpers are shattered.

⁹On that day messengers will go out from Me in ships to frighten Cush out of complacency. Anguish will come upon them on the day of Egypt’s doom. For it is indeed coming.

¹⁰This is what the Lord GOD says:

I will put an end to the hordes of Egypt

by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.

¹¹He and his people with him,

the most ruthless of the nations,

will be brought in to destroy the land.

They will draw their swords against Egypt

and fill the land with the slain.

¹²I will make the streams dry up

and sell the land to the wicked.

By the hands of foreigners I will bring desolation

upon the land and everything in it.

¹³This is what the Lord GOD says:

I will destroy the idols

and put an end to the images in Memphis.

There will no longer be a prince in Egypt,

and I will instill fear in that land.

¹⁴I will lay waste Pathros,

set fire to Zoan,

and execute judgment on Thebes.

¹⁵I will pour out My wrath on Pelusium,

the stronghold of Egypt,

and cut off the crowds of Thebes.

¹⁶I will set fire to Egypt,

Pelusium will writhe in anguish,

Thebes will be split open,

and Memphis will face daily distress.

¹⁷The young men of On and Pi-beseth

will fall by the sword,

and those cities will go into captivity.

¹⁸The day will be darkened in Tahpanhes

when I break the yoke of Egypt

and her proud strength comes to an end.

A cloud will cover her,

and her daughters will go into captivity.

¹⁹So I will execute judgment on Egypt,

and they will know that I am the LORD.”

²⁰In the eleventh year, on the seventh day of the first month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

²¹“Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt. See, it has not been bound up for healing, or splinted for strength to hold the sword.

²²Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt. I will break his arms, both the strong one and the one already broken, and will make the sword fall from his hand.

²³I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands.

²⁴I will strengthen the arms of Babylon’s king and place My sword in his hand, but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, who will groan before him like a mortally wounded man.

²⁵I will strengthen the arms of Babylon’s king, but Pharaoh’s arms will fall limp. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I place My sword in the hand of Babylon’s king, and he wields it against the land of Egypt.

²⁶I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”

¹In the eleventh year, on the first day of the third month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

²“Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his multitude:

‘Who can be compared

to your greatness?

³Look at Assyria, a cedar in Lebanon,

with beautiful branches that shaded the forest.

It towered on high;

its top was among the clouds.

⁴The waters made it grow;

the deep springs made it tall,

directing their streams all around its base

and sending their channels to all the trees of the field.

⁵Therefore it towered higher

than all the trees of the field.

Its branches multiplied,

and its boughs grew long

as it spread them out

because of the abundant waters.

⁶All the birds of the air

nested in its branches,

and all the beasts of the field

gave birth beneath its boughs;

all the great nations

lived in its shade.

⁷It was beautiful in its greatness,

in the length of its limbs,

for its roots extended

to abundant waters.

⁸The cedars in the garden of God

could not rival it;

the cypresses could not compare with its branches,

nor the plane trees match its boughs.

No tree in the garden of God

could compare with its beauty.

⁹I made it beautiful with its many branches,

the envy of all the trees of Eden,

which were in the garden of God.’

¹⁰Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Since it became great in height and set its top among the clouds, and it grew proud on account of its height,

¹¹I delivered it into the hand of the ruler of the nations, for him to deal with it according to its wickedness. I have banished it.

¹²Foreigners, the most ruthless of the nations, cut it down and left it. Its branches have fallen on the mountains and in every valley; its boughs lay broken in all the earth’s ravines. And all the peoples of the earth left its shade and abandoned it.

¹³All the birds of the air nested on its fallen trunk, and all the beasts of the field lived among its boughs.

¹⁴This happened so that no other trees by the waters would become great in height and set their tops among the clouds, and no other well-watered trees would reach them in height. For they have all been consigned to death, to the depths of the earth, among the mortals who descend to the Pit.’

¹⁵This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘On the day it was brought down to Sheol, I caused mourning. I covered the deep because of it; I held back its rivers; its abundant waters were restrained. I made Lebanon mourn for it, and all the trees of the field fainted because of it.

¹⁶I made the nations quake at the sound of its downfall, when I cast it down to Sheol with those who descend to the Pit. Then all the trees of Eden, the choicest and best of Lebanon, all the well-watered trees, were consoled in the earth below.

¹⁷They too descended with it to Sheol, to those slain by the sword. As its allies they had lived in its shade among the nations.

¹⁸Who then is like you in glory and greatness among the trees of Eden? You also will be brought down to the depths of the earth to be with the trees of Eden. You will lie among the uncircumcised, with those slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, declares the Lord GOD.’”

¹In the twelfth year, on the first day of the twelfth month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

²“Son of man, take up a lament for Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him:

‘You are like a lion among the nations;

you are like a monster in the seas.

You thrash about in your rivers,

churning up the waters with your feet

and muddying the streams.’

³This is what the Lord GOD says:

‘I will spread My net over you

with a company of many peoples,

and they will draw you up in My net.

⁴I will abandon you on the land

and hurl you into the open field.

I will cause all the birds of the air

to settle upon you,

and all the beasts of the earth

to eat their fill of you.

⁵I will put your flesh on the mountains

and fill the valleys with your remains.

⁶I will drench the land

with the flow of your blood,

all the way to the mountains —

the ravines will be filled.

⁷When I extinguish you,

I will cover the heavens

and darken their stars.

I will cover the sun with a cloud,

and the moon will not give its light.

⁸All the shining lights in the heavens

I will darken over you,

and I will bring darkness

upon your land,’

⁹‘I will trouble the hearts of many peoples,

when I bring about your destruction among the nations,

in countries you do not know.

¹⁰I will cause many peoples

to be appalled over you,

and their kings will shudder in horror because of you

when I brandish My sword before them.

On the day of your downfall

each of them will tremble

every moment for his life.’

¹¹For this is what the Lord GOD says:

‘The sword of the king of Babylon

will come against you!

¹²I will make your hordes fall

by the swords of the mighty,

the most ruthless of all nations.

They will ravage the pride of Egypt

and all her multitudes will be destroyed.

¹³I will slaughter all her cattle

beside the abundant waters.

No human foot will muddy them again,

and no cattle hooves will disturb them.

¹⁴Then I will let her waters settle

and will make her rivers flow like oil,’

¹⁵‘When I make the land of Egypt a desolation

and empty it of all that filled it,

when I strike down all who live there,

then they will know that I am the LORD.’

¹⁶This is the lament they will chant for her; the daughters of the nations will chant it. Over Egypt and all her multitudes they will chant it, declares the Lord GOD.”

¹⁷In the twelfth year, on the fifteenth day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

¹⁸“Son of man, wail for the multitudes of Egypt, and consign her and the daughters of the mighty nations to the depths of the earth with those who descend to the Pit:

¹⁹Whom do you surpass in beauty?

Go down and be placed with the uncircumcised!

²⁰They will fall among those slain by the sword.

The sword is appointed!

Let them drag her away

along with all her multitudes.

²¹Mighty chiefs will speak from the midst of Sheol

about Egypt and her allies:

‘They have come down and lie with the uncircumcised,

with those slain by the sword.’

²²Assyria is there with her whole company;

her graves are all around her.

All of them are slain,

fallen by the sword.

²³Her graves are set in the depths of the Pit,

and her company is all around her grave.

All of them are slain,

fallen by the sword —

those who once spread terror

in the land of the living.

²⁴Elam is there

with all her multitudes around her grave.

All of them are slain,

fallen by the sword —

those who went down uncircumcised

to the earth below,

who once spread their terror

in the land of the living.

They bear their disgrace

with those who descend to the Pit.

²⁵Among the slain they prepare

a resting place for Elam

with all her hordes,

with her graves all around her.

All of them are uncircumcised,

slain by the sword,

although their terror was once spread

in the land of the living.

They bear their disgrace

with those who descend to the Pit.

They are placed among the slain.

²⁶Meshech and Tubal are there

with all their multitudes,

with their graves all around them.

All of them are uncircumcised,

slain by the sword,

because they spread their terror

in the land of the living.

²⁷They do not lie down

with the fallen warriors of old,

who went down to Sheol

with their weapons of war,

whose swords were placed under their heads,

whose shields rested on their bones,

although the terror of the mighty

was once in the land of the living.

²⁸But you too will be shattered

and lie down among the uncircumcised,

with those slain by the sword.

²⁹Edom is there,

and all her kings and princes,

who despite their might

are laid among those slain by the sword.

They lie down with the uncircumcised,

with those who descend to the Pit.

³⁰All the leaders of the north

and all the Sidonians are there;

they went down in disgrace with the slain,

despite the terror of their might.

They lie uncircumcised

with those slain by the sword

and bear their shame

with those who descend to the Pit.

³¹Pharaoh will see them

and be comforted over all his multitude —

Pharaoh and all his army,

slain by the sword,

³²For I will spread My terror

in the land of the living,

so that Pharaoh and all his multitude

will be laid to rest among the uncircumcised,

with those slain by the sword,

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