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Ezekiel, starting at chapter 28
{28:1} The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying, {28:2} Son of
man, tell the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because your
heart is lifted up, and you have said, I am a god, I sit in the seat
of God, in the midst of the seas; yet you are man, and not God, though
you did set your heart as the heart of God--{28:3} behold, you are
wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that is hidden from you; {28:4}
by your wisdom and by your understanding you have gotten you riches,
and have gotten gold and silver into your treasures; {28:5} by your
great wisdom [and] by your traffic have you increased your riches, and
your heart is lifted up because of your riches--{28:6} therefore thus
says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have set your heart as the heart of
God, {28:7} therefore, behold, I will bring strangers on you, the
terrible of the nations; and they shall draw their swords against the
beauty of your wisdom, and they shall defile your brightness. {28:8}
They shall bring you down to the pit; and you shall die the death of
those who are slain, in the heart of the seas. {28:9} Will you yet say
before him who kills you, I am God? but you are man, and not God, in
the hand of him who wounds you. {28:10} You shall die the death of the
uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, says the
Lord Yahweh. {28:11} Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
{28:12} Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and
tell him, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You seal up the sum, full of
wisdom, and perfect in beauty. {28:13} You were in Eden, the garden of
God; every precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, emerald,
chrysolite, onyx, jasper, [1>]sapphire[<1], turquoise, and beryl. Gold
work of tambourines and of pipes was in you. In the day that you were
created they were prepared. {28:14} You were the anointed cherub who
covers: and I set you, [so that] you were on the holy mountain of God;
you have walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
{28:15} You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were
created, until unrighteousness was found in you. {28:16} By the
abundance of your traffic they filled the midst of you with violence,
and you have sinned: therefore I have cast you as profane out of the
mountain of God; and I have destroyed you, covering cherub, from the
midst of the stones of fire. {28:17} Your heart was lifted up because
of your beauty; you have corrupted your wisdom by reason of your
brightness: I have cast you to the ground; I have laid you before
kings, that they may see you. {28:18} By the multitude of your
iniquities, in the unrighteousness of your traffic, you have profaned
your sanctuaries; therefore have I brought forth a fire from the midst
of you; it has devoured you, and I have turned you to ashes on the
earth in the sight of all those who see you. {28:19} All those who
know you among the peoples shall be astonished at you: you are become
a terror, and you shall nevermore have any being. {28:20} The word of
Yahweh came to me, saying, {28:21} Son of man, set your face toward
Sidon, and prophesy against it, {28:22} and say, Thus says the Lord
Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, Sidon; and I will be glorified in
the midst of you; and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall
have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her.
{28:23} For I will send pestilence into her, and blood into her
streets; and the wounded shall fall in the midst of her, with the
sword on her on every side; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
{28:24} There shall be no more a pricking brier to the house of
Israel, nor a hurting thorn of any that are around them, that did
despite to them; and they shall know that I am the Lord Yahweh.
{28:25} Thus says the Lord Yahweh: When I shall have gathered the
house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and
shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the nations, then shall
they dwell in their own land which I gave to my servant Jacob. {28:26}
They shall dwell securely therein; yes, they shall build houses, and
plant vineyards, and shall dwell securely, when I have executed
judgments on all those who do them despite all around them; and they
shall know that I am Yahweh their God.
{29:1} In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of
the month, the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {29:2} "Son of man,
set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him
and against all Egypt. {29:3} Speak and say, 'Thus says the Lord
Yahweh: "Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great
monster that lies in the midst of his rivers, that has said, 'My river
is my own, and I have made it for myself.' {29:4} I will put hooks in
your jaws, and I will make the fish of your rivers stick to your
scales; and I will bring you up out of the midst of your rivers, with
all the fish of your rivers which stick to your scales. {29:5} I'll
cast you forth into the wilderness, you and all the fish of your
rivers. You'll fall on the open field. You won't be brought together,
nor gathered. I have given you for food to the animals of the earth
and to the birds of the sky. {29:6} All the inhabitants of Egypt will
know that I am Yahweh, because they have been a staff of reed to the
house of Israel. {29:7} When they took hold of you by your hand, you
broke, and tore all their shoulders; and when they leaned on you, you
broke, and paralyzed all of their thighs." {29:8} Therefore thus says
the Lord Yahweh: "Behold, I will bring a sword on you, and will cut
off from you man and animal. {29:9} The land of Egypt shall be a
desolation and a waste; and they shall know that I am Yahweh. Because
he has said, 'The river is mine, and I have made it;' {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 the
tower of Seveneh even to the border of Ethiopia. {29:11} No foot of
man shall pass through it, nor foot of animal shall pass through it,
neither shall it be inhabited forty years. {29:12} I will make the
land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of the countries that are
desolate; and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be
a desolation forty years; and I will scatter the Egyptians among the
nations, and will disperse them through the countries." {29:13} For
thus says the Lord Yahweh: "At the end of forty years will I gather
the Egyptians from the peoples where they were scattered; {29:14} and
I will bring back the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to
return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their birth; and
they shall be there a base kingdom. {29:15} It shall be the base of
the kingdoms; neither shall it any more lift itself up above the
nations: and I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over
the nations. {29:16} It shall be no more the confidence of the house
of Israel, bringing iniquity to memory, when they turn to look after
them: and they shall know that I am the Lord Yahweh."'" {29:17} It
came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the first [month], in
the first [day] of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
{29:18} Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to
serve a great service against Tyre: every head was made bald, and
every shoulder was worn; yet had he no wages, nor his army, from Tyre,
for the service that he had served against it. {29:19} Therefore thus
says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will give the land of Egypt to
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and he shall carry off her multitude,
and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for
his army. {29:20} I have given him the land of Egypt as his recompense
for which he served, because they worked for me, says the Lord Yahweh.
{29:21} In that day will I cause a horn to bud forth to the house of
Israel, and I will give you the opening of the mouth in the midst of
them; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
{30:1} The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying, {30:2} Son of
man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Wail, Alas for the
day! {30:3} For the day is near, even the day of Yahweh is near; it
shall be a day of clouds, a time of the nations. {30:4} A sword shall
come on Egypt, and anguish 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. {30:5} Ethiopia, and Put, and Lud,
and all the mixed people, and Cub, and the children of the land that
is in league, shall fall with them by the sword. {30:6} Thus says
Yahweh: They also who uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her
power shall come down: from the tower of Seveneh shall they fall in it
by the sword, says the Lord Yahweh. {30:7} 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. {30:8} They shall know
that I am Yahweh, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and all her helpers
are destroyed. {30:9} In that day shall messengers go forth from
before me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid; and there
shall be anguish on them, as in the day of Egypt; for, behold, it
comes. {30:10} Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also make the
multitude of Egypt to cease, by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon. {30:11} He and his people with him, the terrible of the
nations, shall be brought in to destroy the land; and they shall draw
their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain. {30:12}
I will make the rivers dry, and will sell the land into the hand of
evil men; and I will make the land desolate, and all that is therein,
by the hand of strangers: I, Yahweh, have spoken it. {30:13} Thus says
the Lord Yahweh: I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause the
images to cease from Memphis; and there shall be no more a prince from
the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt. {30:14}
I will make Pathros desolate, and will set a fire in Zoan, and will
execute judgments on No. {30:15} I will pour my wrath on Sin, the
stronghold of Egypt; and I will cut off the multitude of No. {30:16} I
will set a fire in Egypt: Sin shall be in great anguish, and No shall
be broken up; and Memphis [shall have] adversaries in the daytime.
{30:17} The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword;
and these [cities] shall go into captivity. {30:18} At Tehaphnehes
also the day shall withdraw itself, when I shall break there the yokes
of Egypt, and the pride of her power shall cease in her: as for her, a
cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity.
{30:19} Thus will I execute judgments on Egypt; and they shall know
that I am Yahweh. {30:20} It happened in the eleventh year, in the
first [month], in the seventh [day] of the month, that the word of
Yahweh came to me, saying, {30:21} Son of man, I have broken the arm
of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and behold, it has not been bound up, to
apply [healing] medicines, to put a bandage to bind it, that it be
strong to hold the sword. {30:22} Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh:
Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms,
the strong [arm], and that which was broken; and I will cause the
sword to fall out of his hand. {30:23} I will scatter the Egyptians
among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.
{30:24} I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my
sword in his hand: but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he shall
groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded man. {30:25} I
will hold up the arms of the king of Babylon; and the arms of Pharaoh
shall fall down; and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall
put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall
stretch it out on the land of Egypt. {30:26} I will scatter the
Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them through the countries;
and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
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Footnotes:
[1] {28:13} or, lapis lazuli
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