Ezekiel 30

¹The word of the Lord came to me:

²Son of man , prophesy , and say , Thus says the Lord God: Wail , Alas for the day !

³For the day is near , the day of the Lord is near ; it will be a day of clouds , a time of doom for the nations .

⁴A sword shall come upon Egypt , and anguish shall be in Cush , when the slain fall in Egypt , and her wealth is carried away , and her foundations are torn down .

⁵Cush , and Put , and Lud , and all Arabia , and Libya , and the people of the land that is in league , shall fall with them by the sword .

⁶Thus says the Lord: Those who support Egypt shall fall , and her proud might shall come down ; from Migdol to Syene they shall fall within her by the sword , declares the Lord God.

⁷And they shall be desolated in the midst of desolated countries , and their cities shall be in the midst of cities that are laid waste .

⁸Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I have set fire to Egypt , and all her helpers are broken .

⁹On that day messengers shall go out from me in ships to terrify the unsuspecting people of Cush , and anguish shall come upon them on the day of Egypt’s doom; for , behold , it comes !

¹⁰Thus says the Lord God: I will put an end to the wealth of Egypt , by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon .

¹¹He and his people with him, the most ruthless of nations , shall be brought in to destroy the land , and they shall draw their swords against Egypt and fill the land with the slain .

¹²And I will dry up the Nile and will sell the land into the hand of evildoers ; I will bring desolation upon the land and everything in it , by the hand of foreigners ; I am the Lord; I have spoken .

¹³Thus says the Lord God: I will destroy the idols and put an end to the images in Memphis ; there shall no longer be a prince from the land of Egypt ; so I will put fear in the land of Egypt .

¹⁴I will make Pathros a desolation and will set fire to Zoan and will execute judgments on Thebes .

¹⁵And I will pour out my wrath on Pelusium , the stronghold of Egypt , and cut off the multitude of Thebes .

¹⁶And I will set fire to Egypt ; Pelusium shall be in great agony ; Thebes shall be breached , and Memphis shall face enemies by day .

¹⁷The young men of On and of Pi-beseth shall fall by the sword , and the women shall go into captivity .

¹⁸At Tehaphnehes the day shall be dark , when I break there the yoke bars of Egypt , and her proud might shall come to an end in her ; she shall be covered by a cloud , and her daughters shall go into captivity .

¹⁹Thus I will execute judgments on Egypt . Then they will know that I am the Lord.

²⁰In the eleventh year , in the first month, on the seventh day of the month , the word of the Lord came to me:

²¹Son of man , I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt , and behold , it has not been bound up , to heal it by binding it with a bandage , so that it may become strong to wield the sword .

²²Therefore thus says the Lord God: Behold , I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt and will break his arms , both the strong arm and the one that was broken , and I will make the sword fall from his hand .

²³I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them through the countries .

²⁴And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon and put my sword in his hand , but I will break the arms of Pharaoh , and he will groan before him like a man mortally wounded .

²⁵I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon , but the arms of Pharaoh shall fall . Then they shall know that I am the Lord, when I put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon and he stretches it out against the land of Egypt .

²⁶And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them throughout the countries . Then they will know that I am the Lord.