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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1In the tenth year, in the tenth month on the twelfth day, the word of the LORD came to me: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt and prophesy against him and against all Egypt. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Speak 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 belongs to me; I made it for myself." |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4But 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. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5I 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 sky. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Then all who live in Egypt will know that I am the LORD. "'You have been a staff of reed for the people of Israel. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7When 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. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8"'Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will bring a sword against you and kill both man and beast. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Egypt will become a desolate wasteland. Then they will know that I am the LORD. "'Because you said, "The Nile is mine; I made it," |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10therefore 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. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11The foot of neither man nor beast will pass through it; no one will live there for forty years. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12I 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. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14I will bring them back from captivity and return them to Upper Egypt, the land of their ancestry. There they will be a lowly kingdom. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15It 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. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Egypt 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.'" |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17In the twenty-seventh year, in the first month on the first day, the word of the LORD came to me: |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Therefore 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. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20I have given him Egypt as a reward for his efforts because he and his army did it for me, declares the Sovereign LORD. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21"On that day I will make a horn grow for the Israelites, and I will open your mouth among them. Then they will know that I am the LORD." |
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