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chapter 29
1
In the
tenth year, the tenth month, the eleventh day of the month, the word of the
Lord came to me, saying:
2 Son of man, set thy face against Pharao king of
Egypt: and thou shalt prophesy of him, and of all Egypt:
3 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.
4 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.
5 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.
6 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.
7 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.
8 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will
bring the sword upon thee: and cut off man and beast out of thee.
9 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
10 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.
11 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.
12 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.
13 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.
14 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:
15 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.
16 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.
17 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:
18 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
19 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.
20 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.
21 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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