29In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day, GOD's Message came to me:H6224H8141H6224H8147H6240H2320H1697H3068H559 2"Son of man, confront Pharaoh king of Egypt. Preach against him and all the Egyptians.H1121H120H7760H6440H6547H4428H4714H5012H4714 3Tell him, 'GOD, the Master, says: "'Watch yourself, Pharaoh, king of Egypt. I'm dead set against you, You lumbering old dragon, lolling and flaccid in the Nile, Saying, "It's my Nile. I made it. It's mine."H1696H559H559H136H3069H6547H4428H4714H1419H8577H7257H8432H2975H559H2975H6213 4I'll set hooks in your jaw; I'll make the fish of the Nile stick to your scales. I'll pull you out of the Nile, with all the fish stuck to your scales.H5414H2397H2397H3895H1710H2975H1692H7193H5927H8432H2975H1710H2975H1692H7193 5Then I'll drag you out into the desert, you and all the Nile fish sticking to your scales. You'll lie there in the open, rotting in the sun, meat to the wild animals and carrion birds.H5203H4057H1710H2975H5307H6440H7704H622H6908H5414H402H2416H776H5775H8064 6Everybody living in Egypt will realize that I am GOD. "'Because you've been a flimsy reed crutch to IsraelH3427H4714H3045H3068H4938H7070H1004H3478 7so that when they gripped you, you splintered and cut their hand, and when they leaned on you, you broke and sent them sprawling—H8610H3709H7533H1234H3802H8172H7665H4975H5976 8Message of GOD, the Master—I'll bring war against you, do away with people and animals alike,H559H136H3069H935H2719H3772H120H929 9and turn the country into an empty desert so they'll realize that I am GOD. "'Because you said, "It's my Nile. I made it. It's all mine,"H776H4714H8077H2723H3045H3068H559H2975H6213 10therefore I am against you and your rivers. I'll reduce Egypt to an empty, desolate wasteland all the way from Migdol in the north to Syene and the border of Ethiopia in the south.H2975H5414H776H4714H2721H2723H8077H4024H5482H1366H3568 11Not a human will be seen in it, nor will an animal move through it. It'll be just empty desert, empty for forty years.H7272H120H5674H7272H929H5674H3427H705H8141 12"'I'll make Egypt the most desolate of all desolations. For forty years I'll make her cities the most wasted of all wasted cities. I'll scatter Egyptians to the four winds, send them off every which way into exile.H5414H776H4714H8077H8432H776H8074H5892H8432H5892H2717H8077H705H8141H6327H4714H1471H2219H776 13"'But,' says GOD, the Master, 'that's not the end of it. After the forty years, I'll gather up the Egyptians from all the places where they've been scattered.H559H136H3069H7093H705H8141H6908H4714H5971H6327 14I'll put things back together again for Egypt. I'll bring her back to Pathros where she got her start long ago. There she'll start over again from scratch.H7725H7622H4714H7725H776H6624H776H4351H8217H4467 15She'll take her place at the bottom of the ladder and there she'll stay, never to climb that ladder again, never to be a world power again.H8217H4467H5375H1471H4591H7287H1471 16Never again will Israel be tempted to rely on Egypt. All she'll be to Israel is a reminder of old sin. Then Egypt will realize that I am GOD, the Master.'"H4009H1004H3478H2142H5771H2142H6437H310H3045H136H3069 17In the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, GOD's Message came to me:H7651H6242H8141H7223H259H2320H1697H3068H559 18"Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, has worn out his army against Tyre. They've worked their fingers to the bone and have nothing to show for it.H1121H120H5019H4428H894H5647H2428H5647H1419H5656H6865H7218H7139H3802H4803H7939H2428H6865H5656H5647 19"Therefore, GOD, the Master, says, 'I'm giving Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. He'll haul away its wealth, pick the place clean. He'll pay his army with Egyptian plunder.H559H136H3069H5414H776H4714H5019H4428H894H5375H1995H7997H7998H962H957H7939H2428 20He's been working for me all these years without pay. This is his pay: Egypt. Decree of GOD, the Master.H5414H776H4714H6468H5647H6213H5002H136H3069 21"'And then I'll stir up fresh hope in Israel—the dawn of deliverance!—and I'll give you, Ezekiel, bold and confident words to speak. And they'll realize that I am GOD.'"H3117H6779H7161H1004H3478H6779H5414H6610H6310H8432H3045H3068
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