Ezekiel 30
1 And the word of the Lord came to me,
saying, 2 Son of man, prophesy, and
say, Thus saith the Lord; Woe, woe worth the day!
3 For the day of the Lord is nigh, a
day of cloud; it shall be the end of the nations.
4 And a sword shall come upon the
Egyptians, and there shall be tumult in Ethiopia, and in Egypt
men shall fall down slain together, and her
foundations shall fall. 5 Persians,
and Cretans, and Lydians, and Libyans, and all the mixed multitude, and they
of the children of my covenant, shall fall by the sword therein.
6 And the supports of Egypt shall
fall; and the pride of her strength shall come down from Magdol to Syene: they
shall fall by the sword in it, saith the Lord.
7 And it shall be made desolate in the
midst of desolate countries, and their cities shall be
desolate in the midst of the desolate cities:
8 and they shall know that I am the
Lord, when I shall send fire upon Egypt, and when all
that help her shall be broken. 9 In
that day shall messengers go forth hasting to destroy Ethiopia utterly, and
there shall be tumult among them in the day of Egypt: for, behold, it comes.
10 Thus saith the Lord God; I will
also destroy the multitude of the Egyptians by the hand of Nabuchodonosor king
of Babylon, 11 his
hand and his people's;
they are plagues sent forth from the nations to
destroy the land: and they all shall unsheath their swords against Egypt, and
the land shall be filled with slain.
12 And I will make their rivers
desolate, and will destroy the land and the fulness of it by the hands of
strangers: I the Lord have spoken.
13 For thus saith the Lord God; I
will also destroy the nobles from Memphis, and the princes of Memphis out of
the land of Egypt; and they shall be no more.
14 And I will destroy the land of
Phathore, and will send fire upon Tanis, and will execute vengeance on
Diospolis. 15 And I will pour out my
wrath upon Sais the strength of Egypt, and will destroy the multitude of
Memphis. 16 And I will send fire upon
Egypt; and Syene shall be sorely troubled; and there shall be a breaking in
Diospolis, and waters shall be poured out.
17 The youths of Heliopolis and
Bubastum shall fall by the sword, and the women shall go into captivity.
18 And the day shall be darkened in
Taphnæ, when I have broken there the sceptres of Egypt: and the pride of her
strength shall perish there: and a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters
shall be taken prisoners. 19 And I
will execute judgment on Egypt; and they shall know that I am the Lord.
20 And it came to pass in the
eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh
day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me,
saying, 21 Son of man, I have broken
the arms of Pharao, king of Egypt; and, behold, it has not been bound up to be
healed, to have a plaster put upon it, or to be
strengthened to lay hold of the sword.
22 Therefore thus saith the Lord God;
Behold, I am against Pharao king of Egypt, and I will break his strong and
outstretched arms, and will smite down his sword out of his hand.
23 And I will disperse the Egyptians
among the nations, and will utterly scatter them among the countries.
24 And I will strengthen the arms of
the king of Babylon, and put my sword into his hand: and he shall bring it
upon Egypt, and shall take her plunder and seize her spoils.
25 Yea, I will strengthen the arms of
the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharao shall fail: and they shall know
that I am the Lord, when I have put my sword into the hands of the king of
Babylon, and he shall stretch it out over the land of Egypt.
26 And I will disperse the Egyptians
among the nations, and utterly scatter them among the countries; and they all
shall know that I am the Lord.