Ezekiel

¹ The word of Yahweh came again to me saying,

³ Even the day of Yahweh is near; It will be a day of clouds, A time of doom for the nations.

⁴ And anguish will be in Ethiopia; When the slain fall in Egypt, They take away her multitude, And her foundations are pulled down.

⁵ Ethiopia, Put, Lud, all Arabia, Libya, and the people of the land that is in covenant will fall with them by the sword.”

⁶ And the pride of her strength will come down; From Migdol to Syene They will fall within her by the sword,” Declares Lord Yahweh.

⁷ In the midst of the desolated lands; And her cities will be In the midst of the cities laid waste.

⁸ When I set a fire in Egypt And all her helpers are broken.

⁹ On that day messengers will go forth from Me in ships to frighten secure Ethiopia; and anguish will be on them as on the day of Egypt; for behold, it is coming!”

¹⁰ By the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.

¹¹ The most ruthless of the nations, Will be brought in to make the land a ruin; And they will draw their swords against Egypt And fill the land with the slain.

¹² And sell the land into the hands of evil men. And I will make the land desolate, As well as its fullness, By the hand of strangers; I, Yahweh, have spoken.”

¹³ And make the images cease from Memphis. And there will no longer be a prince in the land of Egypt; And I will put fear in the land of Egypt.

¹⁴ Set a fire in Zoan, And execute judgments on Thebes.

¹⁵ The strong defense of Egypt; I will also cut off the multitude of Thebes.

¹⁶ Sin will writhe in anguish; Thebes will be breached, And Memphis will have distresses daily.

¹⁷ Will fall by the sword, And the women will go into captivity.

¹⁸ When I break there the bars of the yoke of Egypt. Then the pride of her strength will cease in her; A cloud will cover her, And her daughters will go into captivity.

¹⁹ And they will know that I am Yahweh.”’”

²⁰ In the eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me saying,

²¹ “Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and behold, it has not been bound up to be given healing or wrapped with a bandage, that it may be strong to seize the sword.

²² Therefore thus says Lord Yahweh, ‘Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt and will break his arms, both the strong and the broken; and I will make the sword fall from his hand.

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

²⁴ For I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon and put My sword in his hand; and I will break the arms of Pharaoh so that he will groan before him with the groanings of a wounded man.

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

²⁶ When I scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the lands, then they will know that I am Yahweh.’”