Ezekiel 29
1 In the twelfth year, in the tenth
month, on the first 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 prophesy against him, and
against the whole of Egypt: 3 and say,
Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I am against Pharao, the great dragon that lies
in the midst of his rivers, that says, The rivers are mine, and I made them.
4 And I will put hooks in thy jaws,
and I will cause the fish of thy river to stick to thy sides, and I will bring
thee up out of the midst of thy river:
5 and I will quickly cast down thee
and all the fish of thy river: thou shalt fall on the face of the plain, and
shalt by no means be gathered, and shalt not be brought together: I have given
thee for food to the wild beasts of the earth and to the fowls of the sky.
6 And all the dwellers in Egypt shall
know that I am the Lord, because thou hast been a staff of reed to the house
of Israel. 7 When they took hold of
thee with their hand, thou didst break: and when every hand was clapped
against them, and when they leaned on thee, thou wast utterly broken, and
didst crush the loins of them all.
8 Therefore thus saith the Lord;
Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and will cut
off from thee man and beast; 9 and the
land of Egypt shall be ruined and desert; and they shall know that I am the
Lord; because thou sayest, The rivers are mine, and I made them.
10 Therefore, behold, I am against
thee, and against all thy rivers, and I will give up the land of Egypt to
desolation, and the sword, and destruction, from Magdol and Syene even to the
borders of the Ethiopians. 11 No foot
of man shall pass through it, and no foot of beast shall pass through it, and
it shall not be inhabited for forty years.
12 And I will cause her land to be
utterly destroyed in the midst of a land that is desolate, and her cities
shall be desolate forty years in the midst of cities
that are desolate: and I will disperse Egypt among the nations, and will
utterly scatter them into the countries.
13 Thus saith the Lord; After forty
years I will gather the Egyptians from the nations among whom they have been
scattered; 14 and I will turn the
captivity of the Egyptians, and will cause them to dwell in the land of
Phathore, in the land whence they were taken;
15 and it shall be a base kingdom
beyond all other kingdoms; it shall not any more be
exalted over the nations; and I will make them few in number, that they may
not be great among the nations.
16 And they shall no more be to the
house of Israel a confidence bringing iniquity to remembrance, when they
follow after them; and they shall know that I am the Lord.
17 And it came to pass in the
twenty-seventh year, on the first day of the first
month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
18 Son of man, Nabuchodonosor king of
Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre; every head was
bald, and every shoulder peeled; yet there was no reward to him or to his army
serving against Tyre, nor for the service wherewith
they served against it.
19 Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I
will give to Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon the land
of Egypt, and he shall take the plunder thereof, and seize the spoils thereof;
and it shall be a reward for his army.
20 In return for his service
wherewith he served against Tyre, I have given him the land of Egypt; thus
saith the Lord God:
21 In that day shall a horn spring
forth for all 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.