28Then this message came to me from the Lord:H1697H3068H559 2“Son of man, give the prince of Tyre this message from the Sovereign Lord. “In your great pride you claim, ‘I am a god! I sit on a divine throne in the heart of the sea.’ But you are only a man and not a god, though you boast that you are a god.H1121H120H559H5057H6865H559H136H3069H3820H1361H559H410H3427H4186H430H3820H3220H120H410H5414H3820H3820H430 3You regard yourself as wiser than Daniel and think no secret is hidden from you.H2450H1840H5640H6004 4With your wisdom and understanding you have amassed great wealth—gold and silver for your treasuries.H2451H8394H6213H2428H6213H2091H3701H214 5Yes, your wisdom has made you very rich, and your riches have made you very proud.H7230H2451H7404H7235H2428H3824H1361H2428 6“Therefore, this is what the Sovereign Lord says. Because you think you are as wise as a god,H559H136H3069H5414H3820H3824H430 7I will now bring against you a foreign army, the terror of the nations. They will draw their swords against your marvelous wisdom and defile your splendor!H935H2114H6184H1471H7324H2719H3308H2451H2490H3314 8They will bring you down to the pit, and you will die in the heart of the sea, pierced with many wounds.H3381H7845H4191H4463H2491H3820H3220 9Will you then boast, ‘I am a god!’ to those who kill you? To them you will be no god but merely a man!H559H559H6440H2026H430H120H410H3027H2490 10You will die like an outcast at the hands of foreigners. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken!”H4191H4194H6189H3027H2114H1696H5002H136H3069 11Then this further message came to me from the Lord:H1697H3068H559 12“Son of man, sing this funeral song for the king of Tyre. Give him this message from the Sovereign Lord. “You were the model of perfection, full of wisdom and exquisite in beauty.H1121H120H5375H7015H4428H6865H559H559H136H3069H2856H8508H4392H2451H3632H3308 13You were in Eden, the garden of God. Your clothing was adorned with every precious stone—red carnelian, pale-green peridot, white moonstone, blue-green beryl, onyx, green jasper, blue lapis lazuli, turquoise, and emerald—all beautifully crafted for you and set in the finest gold. They were given to you on the day you were created.H5731H1588H430H3368H68H4540H124H6357H3095H8658H7718H3471H5601H5306H1304H2091H4399H8596H5345H3559H3117H1254 14I ordained and anointed you as the mighty angelic guardian. You had access to the holy mountain of God and walked among the stones of fire.H4473H3742H5526H5414H6944H2022H430H1980H8432H68H784 15“You were blameless in all you did from the day you were created until the day evil was found in you.H8549H1870H3117H1254H5766H4672 16Your rich commerce led you to violence, and you sinned. So I banished you in disgrace from the mountain of God. I expelled you, O mighty guardian, from your place among the stones of fire.H7230H7404H4390H8432H2555H2398H2490H2022H430H6H5526H3742H8432H68H784 17Your heart was filled with pride because of all your beauty. Your wisdom was corrupted by your love of splendor. So I threw you to the ground and exposed you to the curious gaze of kings.H3820H1361H3308H7843H2451H5921H3314H7993H776H5414H6440H4428H7200 18You defiled your sanctuaries with your many sins and your dishonest trade. So I brought fire out from within you, and it consumed you. I reduced you to ashes on the ground in the sight of all who were watching.H2490H4720H7230H5771H5766H7404H3318H784H8432H398H5414H665H776H5869H7200 19All who knew you are appalled at your fate. You have come to a terrible end, and you will exist no more.”H3045H5971H8074H1091H369H5704H5769 20Then another message came to me from the Lord:H1697H3068H559 21“Son of man, turn and face the city of Sidon and prophesy against it.H1121H120H7760H6440H6721H5012 22Give the people of Sidon this message from the Sovereign Lord. “I am your enemy, O Sidon, and I will reveal my glory by what I do to you. When I bring judgment against you and reveal my holiness among you, everyone watching will know that I am the Lord.H559H559H136H3069H6721H3513H8432H3045H3068H6213H8201H6942 23I will send a plague against you, and blood will be spilled in your streets. The attack will come from every direction, and your people will lie slaughtered within your walls. Then everyone will know that I am the Lord.H7971H1698H1818H2351H2491H5307H8432H2719H5439H3045H3068 24No longer will Israel’s scornful neighbors prick and tear at her like briers and thorns. For then they will know that I am the Sovereign Lord.H3992H5544H1004H3478H3510H6975H5439H7590H3045H136H3069 25“This is what the Sovereign Lord says: The people of Israel will again live in their own land, the land I gave my servant Jacob. For I will gather them from the distant lands where I have scattered them. I will reveal to the nations of the world my holiness among my people.H559H136H3069H6908H1004H3478H5971H6327H6942H5869H1471H3427H127H5414H5650H3290 26They will live safely in Israel and build homes and plant vineyards. And when I punish the neighboring nations that treated them with contempt, they will know that I am the Lord their God.”H3427H983H1129H1004H5193H3754H3427H983H6213H8201H7590H5439H3045H3068H430
29On January 7, during the tenth year of King Jehoiachin’s captivity, this message came to me from the Lord:H6224H8141H6224H8147H6240H2320H1697H3068H559 2“Son of man, turn and face Egypt and prophesy against Pharaoh the king and all the people of Egypt.H1121H120H7760H6440H6547H4428H4714H5012H4714 3Give them this message from the Sovereign Lord. “I am your enemy, O Pharaoh, king of Egypt—you great monster, lurking in the streams of the Nile. For you have said, ‘The Nile River is mine; I made it for myself.’H1696H559H559H136H3069H6547H4428H4714H1419H8577H7257H8432H2975H559H2975H6213 4I will put hooks in your jaws and drag you out on the land with fish sticking to your scales.H5414H2397H2397H3895H1710H2975H1692H7193H5927H8432H2975H1710H2975H1692H7193 5I will leave you and all your fish stranded in the wilderness to die. You will lie unburied on the open ground, for I have given you as food to the wild animals and birds.H5203H4057H1710H2975H5307H6440H7704H622H6908H5414H402H2416H776H5775H8064 6All the people of Egypt will know that I am the Lord, for to Israel you were just a staff made of reeds.H3427H4714H3045H3068H4938H7070H1004H3478 7When Israel leaned on you, you splintered and broke and stabbed her in the armpit. When she put her weight on you, you gave way, and her back was thrown out of joint.H8610H3709H7533H1234H3802H8172H7665H4975H5976 8“Therefore, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will bring an army against you, O Egypt, and destroy both people and animals.H559H136H3069H935H2719H3772H120H929 9The land of Egypt will become a desolate wasteland, and the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord. “Because you said, ‘The Nile River is mine; I made it,’H776H4714H8077H2723H3045H3068H559H2975H6213 10I am now the enemy of both you and your river. I will make the land of Egypt a totally desolate wasteland, from Migdol to Aswan, as far south as the border of Ethiopia.H2975H5414H776H4714H2721H2723H8077H4024H5482H1366H3568 11For forty years not a soul will pass that way, neither people nor animals. It will be completely uninhabited.H7272H120H5674H7272H929H5674H3427H705H8141 12I will make Egypt desolate, and it will be surrounded by other desolate nations. Its cities will be empty and desolate for forty years, surrounded by other ruined cities. I will scatter the Egyptians to distant lands.H5414H776H4714H8077H8432H776H8074H5892H8432H5892H2717H8077H705H8141H6327H4714H1471H2219H776 13“But this is what the Sovereign Lord also says: At the end of the forty years I will bring the Egyptians home again from the nations to which they have been scattered.H559H136H3069H7093H705H8141H6908H4714H5971H6327 14I will restore the prosperity of Egypt and bring its people back to the land of Pathros in southern Egypt from which they came. But Egypt will remain an unimportant, minor kingdom.H7725H7622H4714H7725H776H6624H776H4351H8217H4467 15It will be the lowliest of all the nations, never again great enough to rise above its neighbors.H8217H4467H5375H1471H4591H7287H1471 16“Then Israel will no longer be tempted to trust in Egypt for help. Egypt’s shattered condition will remind Israel of how sinful she was to trust Egypt in earlier days. Then Israel will know that I am the Sovereign Lord.”H4009H1004H3478H2142H5771H2142H6437H310H3045H136H3069 17On April 26, the first day of the new year, during the twenty-seventh year of King Jehoiachin’s captivity, this message came to me from the Lord:H7651H6242H8141H7223H259H2320H1697H3068H559 18“Son of man, the army of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon fought so hard against Tyre that the warriors’ heads were rubbed bare and their shoulders were raw and blistered. Yet Nebuchadnezzar and his army won no plunder to compensate them for all their work.H1121H120H5019H4428H894H5647H2428H5647H1419H5656H6865H7218H7139H3802H4803H7939H2428H6865H5656H5647 19Therefore, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon. He will carry off its wealth, plundering everything it has so he can pay his army.H559H136H3069H5414H776H4714H5019H4428H894H5375H1995H7997H7998H962H957H7939H2428 20Yes, I have given him the land of Egypt as a reward for his work, says the Sovereign Lord, because he was working for me when he destroyed Tyre.H5414H776H4714H6468H5647H6213H5002H136H3069 21“And the day will come when I will cause the ancient glory of Israel to revive, and then, Ezekiel, your words will be respected. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”H3117H6779H7161H1004H3478H6779H5414H6610H6310H8432H3045H3068
30This is another message that came to me from the Lord:H1697H3068H559 2“Son of man, prophesy and give this message from the Sovereign Lord. “Weep and wail for that day,H1121H120H5012H559H559H136H3069H3213H1929H3117 3for the terrible day is almost here—the day of the Lord! It is a day of clouds and gloom, a day of despair for the nations.H3117H7138H3117H3068H7138H6051H3117H6256H1471 4A sword will come against Egypt, and those who are slaughtered will cover the ground. Its wealth will be carried away and its foundations destroyed. The land of Ethiopia will be ravished.H2719H935H4714H2479H3568H2491H5307H4714H3947H1995H3247H2040 5Ethiopia, Libya, Lydia, all Arabia, and all their other allies will be destroyed in that war.H3568H6316H3865H6153H3552H1121H776H1285H5307H2719 6“For this is what the Lord says. All of Egypt’s allies will fall, and the pride of her power will end. From Migdol to Aswan they will be slaughtered by the sword, says the Sovereign Lord.H559H3068H5564H4714H5307H1347H5797H3381H4024H5482H5307H2719H5002H136H3069 7Egypt will be desolate, surrounded by desolate nations, and its cities will be in ruins, surrounded by other ruined cities.H8074H8432H776H8074H5892H8432H5892H2717 8And the people of Egypt will know that I am the Lord when I have set Egypt on fire and destroyed all their allies.H3045H3068H5414H784H4714H5826H7665 9At that time I will send swift messengers in ships to terrify the complacent Ethiopians. Great panic will come upon them on that day of Egypt’s certain destruction. Watch for it! It is sure to come!H3117H4397H3318H6440H6716H983H3568H2729H2479H3117H4714H935 10“For this is what the Sovereign Lord says. By the power of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, I will destroy the hordes of Egypt.H559H136H3069H1995H4714H7673H3027H5019H4428H894 11He and his armies—the most ruthless of all—will be sent to demolish the land. They will make war against Egypt until slaughtered Egyptians cover the ground.H5971H6184H1471H935H7843H776H7324H2719H4714H4390H776H2491 12I will dry up the Nile River and sell the land to wicked men. I will destroy the land of Egypt and everything in it by the hands of foreigners. I, the Lord, have spoken!H5414H2975H2724H4376H776H3027H7451H776H8074H4393H3027H2114H3068H1696 13“This is what the Sovereign Lord says. I will smash the idols of Egypt and the images at Memphis. There will be no rulers left in Egypt; terror will sweep the land.H559H136H3069H6H1544H457H7673H5297H5387H776H4714H5414H3374H776H4714 14I will destroy southern Egypt, set fire to Zoan, and bring judgment against Thebes.H6624H8074H5414H784H6814H6213H8201H4996 15I will pour out my fury on Pelusium, the strongest fortress of Egypt, and I will stamp out the hordes of Thebes.H8210H2534H5512H4581H4714H3772H1995H4996 16Yes, I will set fire to all Egypt! Pelusium will be racked with pain; Thebes will be torn apart; Memphis will live in constant terror.H5414H784H4714H5512H2342H2342H4996H1234H5297H6862H3119 17The young men of Heliopolis and Bubastis will die in battle, and the women will be taken away as slaves.H970H206H6364H5307H2719H3212H7628 18When I come to break the proud strength of Egypt, it will be a dark day for Tahpanhes, too. A dark cloud will cover Tahpanhes, and its daughters will be led away as captives.H8471H3117H2821H2820H7665H4133H4714H1347H5797H7673H1931H6051H3680H1323H3212H7628 19And so I will greatly punish Egypt, and they will know that I am the Lord.”H6213H8201H4714H3045H3068 20On April 29, during the eleventh year of King Jehoiachin’s captivity, this message came to me from the Lord:H259H6240H8141H7223H7651H2320H1697H3068H559 21“Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. His arm has not been put in a cast so that it may heal. Neither has it been bound up with a splint to make it strong enough to hold a sword.H1121H120H7665H2220H6547H4428H4714H2280H7499H5414H7760H2848H2280H2388H8610H2719 22Therefore, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am the enemy of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt! I will break both of his arms—the good arm along with the broken one—and I will make his sword clatter to the ground.H559H136H3069H6547H4428H4714H7665H2220H2389H7665H2719H5307H3027 23I will scatter the Egyptians to many lands throughout the world.H6327H4714H1471H2219H776 24I will strengthen the arms of Babylon’s king and put my sword in his hand. But I will break the arms of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and he will lie there mortally wounded, groaning in pain.H2388H2220H4428H894H5414H2719H3027H7665H6547H2220H5008H6440H5009H2491 25I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, while the arms of Pharaoh fall useless to his sides. And when I put my sword in the hand of Babylon’s king and he brings it against the land of Egypt, Egypt will know that I am the Lord.H2388H2220H4428H894H2220H6547H5307H3045H3068H5414H2719H3027H4428H894H5186H776H4714 26I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, dispersing them throughout the earth. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”H6327H4714H1471H2219H776H3045H3068
Dublin, OH
at the hands of foreigners. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken!”H4191
