Ezekiel 30:7
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New International Version (©2011)
"'They will be desolate among desolate lands, and their cities will lie among ruined cities.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Egypt will be desolate, surrounded by desolate nations, and its cities will be in ruins, surrounded by other ruined cities.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And they shall be desolated in the midst of desolated countries, and their cities shall be in the midst of cities that are laid waste.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"They will be desolate In the midst of the desolated lands; And her cities will be In the midst of the devastated cities.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
They will be desolate among desolate lands, and their cities will lie among ruined cities.

International Standard Version (©2012)
They'll remain desolate among desolate lands, their cities will be named among those that are ruined.

NET Bible (©2006)
They will be desolate among desolate lands, and their cities will be among ruined cities.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
" 'Egypt will become the most desolate country in the world, and Egypt's cities will lie in ruins. They will be ruined more than other cities.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
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.

American King James Version
And they shall be desolate in the middle of the countries that are desolate, and her cities shall be in the middle of the cities that are wasted.

American Standard Version
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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they shall be desolate in the midst of the lands that are desolate, and the cities thereof shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted.

Darby Bible Translation
And they shall be desolated in the midst of the countries that are desolated, and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted.

English Revised Version
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.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

World English Bible
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.

Young's Literal Translation
And they have been desolated in the midst of desolate lands, And its cities are in the midst of wasted cities.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

30:1-19 The prophecy of the destruction of Egypt is very full. Those who take their lot with God's enemies, shall be with them in punishment. The king of Babylon and his army shall be instruments of this destruction. God often makes one wicked man a scourge to another. No place in the land of Egypt shall escape the fury of the Chaldeans. The Lord is known by the judgments he executes. Yet these are only present effects of the Divine displeasure, not worthy of our fear, compared with the wrath to come, from which Jesus delivers his people.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate,.... Or among them, shall be ranked with them, and be as desolate as they are; as Judea and other countries, ravaged by the same enemy:

and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted; undergo the same fate as they have done, as Jerusalem and others. The cities of Egypt were very numerous; Diodorus Siculus (n) says, that in ancient times Egypt had cities and villages of note, more than 18,000. Herodotus (o) writes, that it was said, that under King Amasis there were 20,000 cities in it; and the first mentioned writer (p) says, under Ptolemy Lagus they were reckoned more than 30,000; and, according to Theocritus (q), under Ptolemy Philadelphus they were 33,339.

(n) Bibl. l. 1. p. 19. (o) Euterpe, sive l. 2. c. 177. (p) Bibl. l. 1. p. 19. (q) Idyll. 17. v. 82.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

7. in the midst of … countries … desolate—Egypt shall fare no better than they (Eze 29:10).

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A Lament for Egypt
…6Thus said the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, said the Lord GOD. 7And they shall be desolate in the middle of the countries that are desolate, and her cities shall be in the middle of the cities that are wasted. 8And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and when all her helpers shall be destroyed. …

Jeremiah 25:18 Jerusalem and the towns of Judah, its kings and officials, to make them a ruin and an object of horror and scorn, a curse --as they are today;
Ezekiel 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,"
Ezekiel 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.