Ezek 30
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The word of YHWH came again to me, saying,
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Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord YHWH: Wail you, Alas for the day!
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For the day is near, even the day of YHWH is near; it shall be a day of clouds, a
time of the nations.
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And a sword shall come upon Egypt, and anguish shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain
shall fall in Egypt; and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall
be broken down.
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Ethiopia, and Put, and Lud, and all the mingled people, and Cub, and the children
of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword.
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Thus says YHWH: They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power
shall come down: from the tower of Seveneh shall they fall in it by the sword, says
the Lord YHWH.
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And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate; and her
cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted.
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And they shall know at I am YHWH, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and all her helpers
are destroyed.
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In that day shall messengers go forth from before me in ships to make the careless
Ethiopians afraid; and there shall be anguish upon them, as in the day of Egypt; for,
behold, it comes.
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Thus says the Lord YHWH: I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease, by the
hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon.
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He and his people with him, the 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.
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And I will make the rivers dry, and will sell the land into the hand of evil men;
and I will make the land desolate, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers:
I, YHWH, have spoken it.
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Thus says the Lord YHWH: I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause the images
to cease from Memphis; and there shall be no more a prince from the land of Egypt:
and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.
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And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set a fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments
upon No.
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And I will pour my anger upon Sin, the stronghold of Egypt; and I will cut off the
multitude of No.
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And I will set a fire in Egypt: Sin shall be in great anguish, and No shall be broken
up; and Memphis [shall have] adversaries in the day-time.
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The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword; and these [cities]
shall go into captivity.
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At Tehaphnehes also the day shall withdraw itself, when I shall break there the yokes
of Egypt, and the pride of her power shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall
cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity.
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Thus will I execute judgments upon Egypt; and they shall know that I am YHWH.
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And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first [month], in the seventh [day]
of the month, that the word of YHWH came to me, saying,
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Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, behold, it has not
been bound up, to apply [healing] medicines, to put a bandage to bind it, that it
be strong to hold the sword.
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Therefore thus says the Lord YHWH: Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and
will break his arms, the strong [arm], and that which was broken; and I will cause
the sword to fall out of his hand.
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And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through
the countries.
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And 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 shall groan before him with the groanings
of a deadly wounded man.
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And I will hold up the arms of the king of Babylon; and the arms of Pharaoh shall
fall down; and they shall know that I am YHWH, when I shall put my sword into the
hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out upon the land of Egypt.
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And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them through the
countries; and they shall know that I am YHWH.