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The Prophecy
of Ezechiel 29
In the tenth year, the tenth month, the eleventh day
of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
Son of man, set thy face against Pharao king of Egypt:
and thou shalt prophesy of him, and of all Egypt:
Speak, and say: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I come
against thee, Pharao king of Egypt, thou great dragon
that liest in the midst of thy rivers, and sayest: The
river is mine, and I made myself.
But I will put a bridle in thy jaws: and I will cause
the fish of thy rivers to stick to thy scales: and I
will draw thee out of the midst of thy rivers, and all
thy fish shall stick to thy scales.
And I will cast thee forth into the desert, and all
the fish of thy river: thou shalt fall upon the face
of the earth, thou shalt not be taken up, nor gathered
together: I have given thee for meat to the beasts of
the earth, and to the fowls of the air.
And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am
the Lord: because thou hast been a staff of a reed to
the house of Israel.
When they took hold of thee with the hand thou didst
break, and rent all their shoulder: and when they leaned
upon thee, thou brokest, and weakenest all their loins.
Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will bring
the sword upon thee: and cut off man and beast out of
thee.
And the land of Egypt shall become a desert, and a wilderness:
and they shall know that I am the Lord: because thou
hast said: The river is mine, and I made
Therefore, behold I come against thee, and thy rivers:
and I will make the land of Egypt utterly desolate,
and wasted by the sword, from the tower of Syene, even
to the borders of Ethiopia.
The foot of man shall not pass through it, neither shall
the foot of beasts go through it: nor shall it be inhabited
during forty years.
And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst
of the lands that are desolate, and the cities thereof
in the midst of the cities that are destroyed, and they
shall be desolate for forty gears: and I will scatter
the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them
through the countries.
For thus saith the Lord God: At the end of forty years
I will gather the Egyptians from the people among whom
they had been scattered.
And I will bring hack the captivity of Egypt, and will
place them in the land of Phatures, in the land of their
nativity, and they shall be there a low kingdom:
It shall be the lowest among other kingdoms, and it
shall no more be exalted over the nations, and I will
diminish them that they shall rule no more over the
nations.
And they shall be no more a confidence to the house
of Israel, teaching iniquity, that they may flee, and
follow them: and they shall know that I am the Lord
God.
And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year,
in the first month, in the first of the month: that
the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
Son of man, Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon hath made
his army to undergo hard service against Tyre: every
head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled: and
there hath been no reward given him, nor his army for
Tyre, for the service that he rendered me against
Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will set
Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon in the land of Egypt:
and he shall take her multitude, and take the booty
thereof for a prey, and rifle the spoils thereof: and
it shall be wages for his army.
And for the service that he hath done me against it:
I have given him the land of Egypt, because he hath
laboured for me, saith the Lord God.
In that day a horn shall bud forth to the house of Israel,
and I will give thee an open mouth in the midst of them:
and they shall know that I am the Lord. |
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