Eze 29 | NASB1995 | STEP | In the tenth year , in the tenth month , on the twelfth of the month , the word of the Lord came to me saying ,

Ezekiel 29

Judgment of Egypt

1 In the ^atenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth of the month, the word of the Lord came to me saying, 2 “Son of man, set your face against ^bPharaoh king of Egypt and prophesy against him and against all ^cEgypt. 3 “Speak and say, ‘Thus says the Lord ^{▼▼ Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord , and so throughout the ch}God, “Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt,
The great ^{▼▼ Lit tannim
,} ^fmonster that lies in the midst of his ^{▼▼ Or Nile}rivers,
That ^hhas said, ‘My Nile is mine, and I myself have made it.’
4 “I will put ⁱhooks in your jaws
And make the fish of your ^{▼▼ Or Nile}rivers cling to your scales.
And I will bring you up out of the midst of your ^{▼▼ Or Nile}rivers,
And all the fish of your ^{▼▼ Or Nile}rivers will cling to your scales.
5 “I will ^mabandon you to the wilderness, you and all the fish of your ^{▼▼ Or Nile}rivers;
You will fall on the ^{▼▼ Lit faces of the field}open field; you will not be brought together or ^{▼▼ Or with several mss and Targum, buried
,} ^qgathered.
I have given you for ^rfood 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 ^sstaff made of reed to the house of Israel.
7 “When they took hold of you with the hand,
You ^tbroke and tore all their ^{▼▼ So with some ancient versions; M.T. shoulders}hands;
And when they leaned on you,
You broke and made all their loins ^{▼▼ Lit stand}quake.”

8 ‘Therefore thus says the Lord God, “Behold, I will ^wbring upon you a sword and I will cut off from you man and beast. 9 “The ^xland of Egypt will become a desolation and waste. Then they will know that I am the Lord.

Because ^{▼▼ Lit he}you ^zsaid, ‘The Nile is mine, and I have made it,’ 10 therefore, behold, I am ^aaagainst you and against your ^{▼▼ Or Nile}rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from Migdol to Syene and even to the border of ^{▼▼ Lit Cush}Ethiopia. 11 “A man’s foot will ^adnot 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 ^aemidst of desolated lands. And her cities, in the midst of cities that are laid waste, will be desolate forty years; and I will ^afscatter 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 ^aggather the Egyptians from the peoples ^{▼▼ Lit where}among whom they were scattered. 14 “I will turn the fortunes of Egypt and make them return to the land of ^aiPathros, to the land of their origin, and there they will be a lowly kingdom. 15 “It will be the ^ajlowest 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 ^akrule over the nations. 16 “And it will never again be the ^alconfidence of the house of Israel, ^{▼▼ Lit causing to remember
,} ^anbringing to mind the iniquity of their having turned ^{▼▼ Lit after them}to Egypt. Then they will know that I am the Lord God.”’”

17 Now in the ^aptwenty-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, ^aqNebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made his army labor ^{▼▼ Lit a great labor}hard against Tyre; every head was made ^asbald and every shoulder was rubbed bare. But he and his army had no wages from Tyre for the labor that he had ^{▼▼ Lit labored}performed against it.” 19 Therefore thus says the Lord God, “Behold, I ^auwill give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. And he will carry off her ^{▼▼ Or multitude
,} ^awwealth 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 ^{▼▼ Lit labored
,} ^ayperformed, because they acted for Me,” declares the Lord God.

21 “On that day I will make a ^azhorn sprout for the house of Israel, and I will ^{▼▼ Lit give you an opening of the mouth
,} ^bbopen your mouth in their midst. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”