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Ezekiel 29
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Prophecy against Egypt

29On the twelfth day of the tenth month of the tenth year of our exile, the LORD spoke to me.H6224H8141H6224H8147H6240H2320H1697H3068H559
2"Mortal man," he said, "denounce the king of Egypt. Tell him how he and all the land of Egypt will be punished.H1121H120H7760H6440H6547H4428H4714H5012H4714
3Say that this is what the Sovereign LORD is telling the king of Egypt: I am your enemy, you monster crocodile, lying in the river. You say that the Nile is yours and that you made it.H1696H559H559H136H3069H6547H4428H4714H1419H8577H7257H8432H2975H559H2975H6213
4I am going to put a hook through your jaw and make the fish in your river stick fast to you. Then I will pull you up out of the Nile, with all the fish sticking to you.H5414H2397H2397H3895H1710H2975H1692H7193H5927H8432H2975H1710H2975H1692H7193
5I will throw you and all those fish into the desert. Your body will fall on the ground and be left unburied. I will give it to the birds and animals for food.H5203H4057H1710H2975H5307H6440H7704H622H6908H5414H402H2416H776H5775H8064
6Then all the people of Egypt will know that I am the LORD." The LORD says, "The Israelites relied on you Egyptians for support, but you were no better than a weak stick.H3427H4714H3045H3068H4938H7070H1004H3478
7When they leaned on you, you broke, pierced their armpits, and made them wrench their backs.H8610H3709H7533H1234H3802H8172H7665H4975H5976
8Now then, I, the Sovereign LORD, am telling you that I will have troops attack you with swords, and they will kill your people and your animals.H559H136H3069H935H2719H3772H120H929
9Egypt will become an empty wasteland. Then you will know that I am the LORD. "Because you said that the Nile is yours and you made it,H776H4714H8077H2723H3045H3068H559H2975H6213
10I am your enemy and the enemy of your Nile. I will make all of Egypt an empty wasteland, from the city of Migdol in the north to the city of Aswan in the south, all the way to the Ethiopian border.H2975H5414H776H4714H2721H2723H8077H4024H5482H1366H3568
11No human being or animal will walk through it. For forty years nothing will live there.H7272H120H5674H7272H929H5674H3427H705H8141
12I will make Egypt the most desolate country in the world. For forty years the cities of Egypt will lie in ruins, ruins worse than those of any other city. I will make the Egyptians refugees. They will flee to every country and live among other peoples."H5414H776H4714H8077H8432H776H8074H5892H8432H5892H2717H8077H705H8141H6327H4714H1471H2219H776
13The Sovereign LORD says, "After forty years I will bring the Egyptians back from the nations where I have scattered them,H559H136H3069H7093H705H8141H6908H4714H5971H6327
14and I will let them live in southern Egypt, their original home. There they will be a weak kingdom,H7725H7622H4714H7725H776H6624H776H4351H8217H4467
15the weakest kingdom of all, and they will never again rule other nations. I will make them so unimportant that they will not be able to bend any other nation to their will.H8217H4467H5375H1471H4591H7287H1471
16Israel will never again depend on them for help. Egypt's fate will remind Israel how wrong it was to rely on them. Then Israel will know that I am the Sovereign LORD."H4009H1004H3478H2142H5771H2142H6437H310H3045H136H3069

King Nebuchadnezzar Will Conquer Egypt

17On the first day of the first month of the twenty-seventh year of our exile, the LORD spoke to me.H7651H6242H8141H7223H259H2320H1697H3068H559
18"Mortal man," he said, "King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia launched an attack on Tyre. He made his soldiers carry such heavy loads that their heads were rubbed bald and their shoulders were worn raw, but neither the king nor his army got anything for all their trouble.H1121H120H5019H4428H894H5647H2428H5647H1419H5656H6865H7218H7139H3802H4803H7939H2428H6865H5656H5647
19So now this is what I, the Sovereign LORD, am saying: I am giving the land of Egypt to King Nebuchadnezzar. He will loot and plunder it and carry off all the wealth of Egypt as his army's pay.H559H136H3069H5414H776H4714H5019H4428H894H5375H1995H7997H7998H962H957H7939H2428
20I am giving him Egypt in payment for his services, because his army was working for me. I, the Sovereign LORD, have spoken.H5414H776H4714H6468H5647H6213H5002H136H3069
21"When that happens, I will make the people of Israel strong and let you, Ezekiel, speak out where everyone can hear you, so that they will know that I am the LORD."H3117H6779H7161H1004H3478H6779H5414H6610H6310H8432H3045H3068


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