Egypt and Her Allies Will Fall

1The word of the Lord came again to me, saying,

2Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus says the Lord God; Howl you^p, Woe worth the day!   Adonai^p.f. Jehovah^s.f.; wail; dread

3For the day is near, even the day of the Lord is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen.

4And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great pain 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.

5Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the mingled people, and Chub, and the men of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword.

6Thus says 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, says the Lord God.

7And 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.   empty, barren

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.

9In that day shall messengers go forth from Me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid, and great pain shall come upon them, as in the day of Egypt: for, lo, it comes.

10Thus says the Lord God; I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon.

11He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought to destroy the land: and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.

12And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the Lord have spoken it.

13Thus says the Lord God; I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause their images to cease out of Noph; and there shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.   idols

14And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments in No.   Thebes

15And I will pour My fury upon Sin, the strength of Egypt; and I will cut off the multitude of No.   Pelusium; destroy

16And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall have great pain, and No shall be rent asunder, and Noph shall have distresses daily.   torn apart

17The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword: and these cities shall go into captivity.

18At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened, when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of her strength shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity.   pride

19Thus will I execute judgments in Egypt: and they shall know that I am the Lord.