Ezekiel 30:16
Good News Translation
I will set fire to Egypt, and Pelusium will be in agony. The walls of Thebes will be broken down, and the city will be flooded.

New Revised Standard Version
I will set fire to Egypt; Pelusium shall be in great agony; Thebes shall be breached, and Memphis face adversaries by day.

Contemporary English Version
I will set fire to your nation of Egypt! The city of Pelusium will be in anguish. Thebes will fall, and the people of Memphis will live in constant fear.

New American Bible
I will set fire to Egypt; Pelusium will writhe in anguish, Thebes will be breached, and Memphis besieged in daylight.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will make a fire in Egypt: Pelusium shall be in pain like a woman in labour, and Alexandria shall be laid waste, and in Memphis there shall be daily distresses.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And I will make a fire in Egypt: Pelusium shall be in pain like a woman in labour, and Alexandria shall be laid waste, and in Memphis there shall be daily distresses.

Ezekiel 30:8,9 And they shall know that I am the Lord: when I shall have set a fire in Egypt, and all the helpers thereof shall be destroyed. . . .

Ezekiel 28:18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thy iniquities, and by the iniquity of thy traffic: therefore I will bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, to devour thee, and I will make thee as ashes upon the earth in the sight of all that see thee.

Context
A Lament for Egypt
15And I will pour out my indignation upon Pelusium the strength of Egypt, and will cut off the multitude of Alexandria. 16And I will make a fire in Egypt: Pelusium shall be in pain like a woman in labour, and Alexandria shall be laid waste, and in Memphis there shall be daily distresses.17The young men of Heliopolis, and of Bubastus shall fall by the sword, and they themselves shall go into captivity.…
Cross References
Jeremiah 44:1
The word that came to Jeremiah, concerning all the Jews that dwelt in the land of Egypt, dwelling in Magdal, and in Taphnis, and in Memphis, and in the land of Phatures, saying:

Ezekiel 30:8
And they shall know that I am the Lord: when I shall have set a fire in Egypt, and all the helpers thereof shall be destroyed.

Ezekiel 30:13
Thus saith the Lord God: I will also destroy the idols, and I will make an end of the idols of Memphis: and there shall: be no more a prince of the land of Egypt and I will cause a terror in the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 30:14
And I will destroy the land of Phatures, and will make a fire in Taphnis, and will execute judgments in Alexandria.

Ezekiel 30:15
And I will pour out my indignation upon Pelusium the strength of Egypt, and will cut off the multitude of Alexandria.

Ezekiel 30:17
The young men of Heliopolis, and of Bubastus shall fall by the sword, and they themselves shall go into captivity.

Ezekiel 39:6
And I will send a fire on Magog, and on them that dwell confidently in the islands: and they shall know that I am the Lord.

Hosea 9:6
For behold they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them together, Memphis shall bury them: nettles shall inherit their beloved silver, the bur shall be in their tabernacles.

Ezekiel 30:15
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