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| 29:1 |
In the tenth year, in the tenth month on the twelfth day, the word of the LORD came to me:
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| 29:2 |
"Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt and prophesy against him and against all Egypt.
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| 29:3 |
Speak to him and say: `This is what the Sovereign LORD says: " `I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, you great monster lying among your streams. You say, "The Nile is mine; I made it for myself."
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| 29:4 |
But I will put hooks in your jaws and make the fish of your streams stick to your scales. I will pull you out from among your streams, with all the fish sticking to your scales.
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| 29:5 |
I will leave you in the desert, you and all the fish of your streams. You will fall on the open field and not be gathered or picked up. I will give you as food to the beasts of the earth and the birds of the air.
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| 29:6 |
Then all who live in Egypt will know that I am the LORD. " `You have been a staff of reed for the house of Israel.
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| 29:7 |
When they grasped you with their hands, you splintered and you tore open their shoulders; when they leaned on you, you broke and their backs were wrenched.
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| 29:8 |
"`Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will bring a sword against you and kill your men and their animals.
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| 29:9 |
Egypt will become a desolate wasteland. Then they will know that I am the LORD. " `Because you said, "The Nile is mine; I made it,"
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| 29:10 |
therefore I am against you and against your streams, and I will make the land of Egypt a ruin and a desolate waste from Migdol to Aswan, as far as the border of Cush.
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| 29:11 |
No foot of man or animal will pass through it; no one will live there for forty years.
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| 29:12 |
I will make the land of Egypt desolate among devastated lands, and her cities will lie desolate forty years among ruined cities. And I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them through the countries.
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| 29:13 |
"`Yet this is what the Sovereign LORD says: At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the nations where they were scattered.
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| 29:14 |
I will bring them back from captivity and return them to Upper Egypt, the land of their ancestry. There they will be a lowly kingdom.
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| 29:15 |
It will be the lowliest of kingdoms and will never again exalt itself above the other nations. I will make it so weak that it will never again rule over the nations.
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| 29:16 |
Egypt will no longer be a source of confidence for the people of Israel but will be a reminder of their sin in turning to her for help. Then they will know that I am the Sovereign LORD.' "
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| 29:17 |
In the twenty-seventh year, in the first month on the first day, the word of the LORD came to me:
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| 29:18 |
"Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon drove his army in a hard campaign against Tyre; every head was rubbed bare and every shoulder made raw. Yet he and his army got no reward from the campaign he led against Tyre.
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| 29:19 |
Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am going to give Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will carry off its wealth. He will loot and plunder the land as pay for his army.
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| 29:20 |
I have given him Egypt as a reward for his efforts because he and his army did it for me, declares the Sovereign LORD.
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| 29:21 |
"On that day I will make a horn grow for the house of Israel, and I will open your mouth among them. Then they will know that I am the LORD."
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