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The Prophecy
of Ezechiel 30
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
Son of man prophesy, and say: Thus saith the Lord God:
Howl ye, Woe, woe to the day:
For the day is near, yea the day of the Lord is near:
a cloudy day, it shall be the time of the nations.
And the sword shall come upon Egypt: and there shall
be dread in Ethiopia, when the wounded shall fall in
Egypt, and the multitude thereof shall be taken away,
and the foundations thereof shall be destroyed.
Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the rest of
the crowd, and Chub, and the children of the land of
the covenant, shall fall with them by the sword.
Thus saith the Lord God: They also that uphold Egypt
shall fall, and the pride of her empire shall be brought
down: from the tower of Syene shall they fall in it
by the sword, saith the Lord the God of hosts.
And they shall be desolate in the midst of the lands
that are desolate, and the cities thereof shall be in
the midst of the cities that are wasted.
And they shall know that I am the Lord: when I shall
have set a fire in Egypt, and all the helpers thereof
shall be destroyed.
In that day shall messengers go forth from my face in
ships to destroy the confidence of Ethiopia, and there
shall be dread among them in the day of Egypt: because
it shall certainly come.
Thus saith the Lord God : I will make the multitude
of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nabuchodonosor the
king of Babylon.
He and his people with him, the strongest of nations,
shall be brought to destroy the land: and they shall
draw their swords upon Egypt: and shall fill the land
with the slain.
And I will make the channels of the rivers dry, and
will deliver the land into the hand of the wicked: and
will lay waste the land and all that is therein by the
hands of strangers, I the Lord have spoken it.
Thus saith the Lord God: I will also destroy the idols,
and I will make an end of the idols of Memphis: and
there shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt:
and I will cause a terror in the land of Egypt.
And I will destroy the land of Phatures, and will make
a fire in Taphnis, and will execute judgments in Alexandria.
And I will pour out my indignation upon Pelusium the
strength of Egypt, and will cut off the multitude of
Alexandria.
And I will make a fire in Egypt: Pelusium shall be in
pain like a woman in labour, and Alexandria shall be
laid waste, and in Memphis there shall be daily distresses.
The young men of Heliopolis, and of Bubastus shall fall
by the sword, and they themselves shall go into captivity.
And in Taphnis the day shall be darkened, when I shall
break there the sceptres of Egypt, and the pride of
her power shall cease in her: a cloud shall cover her,
and her daughters shall be led into captivity.
And I will execute judgments in Egypt: and they shall
know that I am the Lord.
And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first
month, in the seventh day of the month, that the word
of the Lord came to me, saying:
Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharao king of
Egypt: and behold it is not bound up, to be healed,
to be tied up with clothes, and swathed with linen,
that it might recover strength, and hold the sword.
Therefore, thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I come against
Pharao king of Egypt, and I will break into pieces his
strong arm, which is already broken: and I will cause
the sword to fall out of his hand:
And I will disperse Egypt among the nations, and scatter
them through the countries.
And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon,
and will put my sword in his hand: and I will break
the arms of Pharao, and they shall groan bitterly being
slain before his face.
And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon,
and the arms of Pharao shall fall: and they shall know
that I am the Lord, when I shall have given my sword
into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall have
stretched it forth upon the land of Egypt.
And I will disperse Egypt among the nations, and will
scatter them through the countries, and they shall know
that I am the Lord. |
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