2 |Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt and prophesy against him and against all Egypt.
3 |Speak and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, |Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, The great monster that lies in the midst of his rivers, That has said, 'My Nile is mine, and I myself have made [it].'
4 |I will put hooks in your jaws And make the fish of your rivers cling to your scales. And I will bring you up out of the midst of your rivers, And all the fish of your rivers will cling to your scales.
5 |I will abandon you to the wilderness, you and all the fish of your rivers; You will fall on the open field; you will not be brought together or gathered. I have given you for food to the beasts of the earth and to the birds of the sky.
6 |Then all the inhabitants of Egypt will know that I am the LORD, Because they have been [only] a staff [made] of reed to the house of Israel.
7 |When they took hold of you with the hand, You broke and tore all their hands; And when they leaned on you, You broke and made all their loins quake.|
8 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, |Behold, I will bring upon you a sword and I will cut off from you man and beast.
9 |The land of Egypt will become a desolation and waste. Then they will know that I am the LORD. Because you said, 'The Nile is mine, and I have made [it],'
10 therefore, behold, I am against you and against your rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from Migdol [to] Syene and even to the border of Ethiopia.
11 |A man's foot will not pass through it, and the foot of a beast will not pass through it, and it will not be inhabited for forty years.
12 |So I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of desolated lands. And her cities, in the midst of cities that are laid waste, will be desolate forty years; and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the lands.|
13 For thus says the Lord GOD, |At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples among whom they were scattered.
14 |I will turn the fortunes of Egypt and make them return to the land of Pathros, to the land of their origin, and there they will be a lowly kingdom.
15 |It will be the lowest of the kingdoms, and it will never again lift itself up above the nations. And I will make them so small that they will not rule over the nations.
16 |And it will never again be the confidence of the house of Israel, bringing to mind the iniquity of their having turned to Egypt. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD.|'|
17 Now in the twenty-seventh year, in the first [month], on the first of the month, the word of the LORD came to me saying,
18 |Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made his army labor hard against Tyre; every head was made bald and every shoulder was rubbed bare. But he and his army had no wages from Tyre for the labor that he had performed against it.|
19 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, |Behold, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. And he will carry off her wealth and capture her spoil and seize her plunder; and it will be wages for his army.
20 |I have given him the land of Egypt [for] his labor which he performed, because they acted for Me,| declares the Lord GOD.
21 |On that day I will make a horn sprout for the house of Israel, and I will open your mouth in their midst. Then they will know that I am the LORD.|
