Ezekiel 29
29:1In the tenth year, in the tenth month, day one of the month, the word of the lord came to me saying,
29:2O son of man, firmly fix your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against entire Egypt!
29:3Speak and say! Thus says Adonai the lord; Behold, I am against you, O Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon, the one lying in wait in the midst of his rivers. The one saying, The rivers are mine, and I made them.
29:4And I will put snares into your jaws, and I will cleave the fishes of your river to your wings. And I will lead you from out of the midst of your river, and all the fishes of the river I will cleave to your scales.
29:5And I will throw you down quickly, and all the fishes of your river. Upon the face of the plain you shall fall, and no way shall you be brought together; and no way shall you be screened. To the wild beasts of the earth, and to the winged creatures of the heaven I have given you for a thing to be devoured.
29:6And all the ones dwelling Egypt shall know that I am the lord, because you became a rod of reed to the house of Israel.
29:7When they took hold of you with their hand, then you were fractured; and when every hand prevailed against them. And when they rested upon you, you were broken, and you broke the loin of all of them.
29:8On account of this, thus says Adonai the lord; Behold, I bring upon you the broadsword; and I will destroy men from you, and beasts.
29:9And the land of Egypt will be for destruction and desolation. And they shall know that I am the lord, because of your saying, The rivers are mine and I made them.
29:10On account of this, behold, I am against you, and against all your rivers. And I will give the land of Egypt unto desolation, broadsword, and destruction, from Migdol and Syene even unto the borders of the Ethiopians.
29:11In no way shall there go through by it the foot of a man; and the foot of a beast in no way shall go through it, and it shall not be inhabited forty years.
29:12And I will appoint her land for destruction in the midst of a land being made desolated, and her cities shall be in the midst of cities being made desolated for extinction forty years. And I will scatter Egypt among the nations, and I will winnow them among the places.
29:13Thus says Adonai the lord; After forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the nations of which they were dispersed there.
29:14And I will return the captivity of the Egyptians, and I will settle them in the land of Phathros, in the land from where they were taken; and it will be a humble rule there,
29:15more than all the rules, it shall be least to not be raised up high any more over the nations. And I will make them very few, so as for them to not be many among the nations.
29:16And no longer will they be any more for a hope to the house of Israel, calling to mind lawlessness in their following after them. And they shall know that I am Adonai the lord.
29:17And it came to pass in the seventh and twentieth year, day one of the first month, came the word of the lord to me, saying,
29:18O son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon reduced to slavery his force for a great service against Tyre. Every head was bald and every shoulder loose of hair. And a wage did not exist to him, and his force was against Tyre, for the service of which they served against it.
29:19On account of this, thus says Adonai the lord; Behold, I give to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon the land of Egypt; and he shall despoil her spoils, and he shall plunder her plunder; and it will be the wage for his force.
29:20In return for his ministration of which he served against Tyre, I have given to him the land of Egypt, because of as much as he worked to me, says Adonai the lord.
29:21In that day there shall rise up a horn to all the house of Israel, and I will give to you a mouth being opened in the midst of them; and they shall know that I am the lord.