Ezekiel 29:1-32 In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, a word of the Lord came to me, saying,

Thomson⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, a 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 all Egypt; ³ and say, Thus saith the Lord, Behold I am against Pharao; that great dragon which walloweth in the midst of his rivers, and saith, "These rivers are mine and I made them." ⁴ And I will put grapples in thy jaws, and cause the fishes of thy river to stick close to thy fins; ⁵ and I will drag thee out of the river, and give thee and all the fishes of thy river a sudden cast. On the face of the plain thou shalt fall and shalt not be gathered nor composed. To the beasts of the earth and the birds of the air I have given thee for food. ⁶ And all the inhabitants of 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: even when every hand was clapping against them, and when they leaned on thee thou didst break and disjoint all their loin; ⁸ therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold I will bring a sword against thee and destroy out of thee man and beast. ⁹ And the land of Egypt shall be a destruction and a desolation; and they shall know that I am the Lord. Because thou saidst, "These rivers are mine; I made them;" ¹⁰ therefore behold I am against thee and against all thy rivers; and I will deliver up the land of Egypt to desolation and sword and destruction. From Magdolus and Syene even to the borders of Ethiopia, ¹¹ no foot of man shall pass across it, nor shall a foot of beast traverse it; and for forty years it shall not be inhabited. ¹² I will indeed make its land a desolation in the midst of a desolated land, and its cities, in the midst of desolated cities, forty years. And I will scatter Egypt among the nations, and disperse them through the countries. ¹³ Thus saith the Lord, After forty years, I will gather the Egyptians from the nations where they were scattered; ¹⁴ and I will bring back the Egyptian captives, and settle them in the land of Pathora; in the land from which they were taken. ¹⁵ And it shall be the basest of all governments; it shall no more be exalted against the nations. For I will make them few and of little account, that they may not be great among the nations. ¹⁶ And they shall no more be the confidence of the house of Israel, bringing iniquity into remembrance by their going after them; and they shall know that I am the Lord. ¹⁷ Again it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year on the first day of the first month, that a word of the Lord came to me, saying, ¹⁸ Son of man, Nabuchodonosar king of Babylon hath caused his army to undergo hard service at Tyre. Every head is bald and every shoulder peeled; and he and his army employed against Tyre, have received no wages; though they have undergone hard service against it. ¹⁹ Thus saith the Lord, Behold I will give to Nabuchodonosar king of Babylon the land of Egypt. And he shall make a prey of its prey, and a spoil of its spoil. And it shall be wages for his army. ²⁰ For his service which he hath performed against Tyre, 1 have given him the land of Egypt. Thus saith the Lord, Lord; ²¹ In that day there shall spring up a horn for the whole 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.