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break, and rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all
their loins to be at a stand.
8
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and cut off man
and beast out of thee.
9
And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; and they shall know that
I
am
the L
ORD
: because he hath said, The river
is
mine, and I have made
it.
10
Behold, therefore I
am
against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste
and
desolate,
from the tower of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia.
11
No foot of man shall pass through it,
nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.
12
And I will make
the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries
that are
desolate, and her cities among the
cities
that are
laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the
nations, and will disperse them through the countries.
13
Yet thus saith the Lord GOD; At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the
people whither they were scattered:
14
And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will cause
them to return
into
the land of Pathros, into the land of their habitation; and they shall be there a
base kingdom.
15
It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither shall it exalt itself any more above
the nations: for I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations.
16
And it shall
be no more the confidence of the house of Israel, which bringeth
their
iniquity to remembrance,
when they shall look after them: but 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
day
of the
month, the word of the L
ORD
came unto me, saying,
18
Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon
caused his army to serve a great service against Tyrus: every head
was
made bald, and every shoulder
was
peeled: yet had he no wages, nor his army, for Tyrus, for the service that he had served against
it:
19
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar
king of Babylon; and he shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall
be the wages for his army.
20
I have given him the land of Egypt
for
his labour wherewith he served
against it, because they wrought for me, saith the Lord GOD.
21
In that day will I cause the horn of the house of Israel to bud forth, and I will give thee the
opening of the mouth in the midst of them; and they shall know that I
am
the L
ORD
.
CHAPTER 30
The word of the L
ORD
came again unto me, saying,
2
Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the
Lord GOD; Howl ye, Woe worth the day
3
For the day
is
near, even the day of the L
ORD
is
near, a
cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen.
4
And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great
pain shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they shall take away her multitude,
and her foundations shall be broken down.
5
Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the mingled
people, and Chub, and the men of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword.
6
Thus saith the L
ORD
; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come
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