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| 29:1 |
In the tenth year, in the tenth [month], on the twelfth of the month, the word of the LORD came to me saying,
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| 29:2 |
"Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and prophesy against him and against all Egypt.
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| 29:3 |
"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.'
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| 29:4 |
"And I shall put hooks in your jaws, And I shall make the fish of your rivers cling to your scales. And I shall bring you up out of the midst of your rivers, And all the fish of your rivers will cling to your scales.
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| 29:5 |
"And I shall 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.
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| 29:6 |
"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.
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| 29:7 |
"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."
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| 29:8 |
'Therefore, thus says the Lord God, "Behold, I shall bring upon you a sword, and I shall cut off from you man and beast.
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| 29:9 |
"And 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],'
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| 29:10 |
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.
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| 29:11 |
"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.
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| 29:12 |
"So I shall 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 shall scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the lands."
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| 29:13 |
'For thus says the Lord God, "At the end of forty years I shall gather the Egyptians from the peoples among whom they were scattered.
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| 29:14 |
"And I shall turn the fortunes of Egypt and shall make them return to the land of Pathros, to the land of their origin; and there they will be a lowly kingdom.
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| 29:15 |
"It will be the lowest of the kingdoms; and it will never again lift itself up above the nations. And I shall make them so small that they will not rule over the nations.
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| 29:16 |
"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."'"
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| 29:17 |
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,
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| 29:18 |
"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."
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| 29:19 |
Therefore, thus says the Lord God, "Behold, I shall 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.
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| 29:20 |
"I have given him the land of Egypt [for] his labor which he performed, because they acted for Me," declares the Lord God.
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| 29:21 |
"On that day I shall make a horn sprout for the house of Israel, and I shall open your mouth in their midst. Then they will know that I am the LORD."
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