Ezekiel 30

¹The word of the Lord came to me: ²“Son 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 Ethiopia,

when the slain fall in Egypt,

and her wealth is carried away,

and her foundations are torn down.

⁵Ethiopia, 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.

⁶“Thus 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,

says the Lord God.

⁷And she shall be desolated in the midst of desolated countries

and her 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.

⁹“On that day swift messengers shall go forth from me to terrify the unsuspecting Ethiopians; and anguish shall come upon them on the day of Egypt’s doom; for, lo, it comes!

¹⁰“Thus says the Lord God:

I will put an end to the wealth of Egypt,

by the hand of Nebuchadrezʹzar king of Babylon.

¹¹He and his people with him, the most terrible of the 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 evil men;

I will bring desolation upon the land and everything in it,

by the hand of foreigners;

I, the Lord, have spoken.

¹³“Thus 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 in 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 Zoʹan,

and will execute acts of judgment upon Thebes.

¹⁵And I will pour my wrath upon 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 its walls broken down.

¹⁷The young men of On and of Pibeʹseth shall fall by the sword;

and the women shall go into captivity.

¹⁸At Tehaphʹnehes the day shall be dark,

when I break there the dominion of Egypt,

and her proud might shall come to an end;

she shall be covered by a cloud,

and her daughters shall go into captivity.

¹⁹Thus I will execute acts of judgment upon 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: ²¹“Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and lo, 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; and they shall know that I am the Lord. When I put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, he shall stretch 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.”