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cause they wrought for Me, saith the Lord God.

²¹In that day will I cause a horn to shoot up unto the house of Israel, and I will give thee the opening of the mouth in the midst of them; and they shall know that I am the Lord.'

30And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying: ²'Son of man, prophesy, and say: Thus saith the Lord God:

Wail ye: Woe worth the day!

³For the day is near,

Even the day of the Lord is near,

A day of clouds, it shall be the time of the nations.

⁴And a sword shall come upon Egypt,

And convulsion shall be in Ethiopia,

When the slain shall fall in Egypt;

And they shall take away her abundance,

And her foundation shall be broken down.

⁵Ethiopia, and Put, and Lud, and all the mingled people, and Cub, and the children of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword.

⁶Thus saith the Lord:

They also that uphold Egypt shall fall,

And the pride of her power shall come down;

From Migdol to Syene shall they fall in it by the sword,

Saith the Lord God.

⁷And 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.

⁸And they shall know that I am the Lord,

When I have set a fire in Egypt,

And all her helpers are destroyed.

⁹In that day shall messengers go forth from before Me in ships

To make the confident Ethiopians afraid;

And there shall come convulsion upon them in the day of Egypt;

For, lo, it cometh.

 

¹⁰Thus saith the Lord God:

I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease,

By the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon.

¹¹He 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.

¹²And I will make the rivers dry,

And will give the land over into the hand of evil men;

And I will make the land desolate,

And all that is therein, by the hand of strangers;

I the Lord have spoken it.

 

¹³Thus saith the Lord God:

I will also destroy the idols,

And I will cause the things of nought to cease from Noph;

And there shall be no more a prince out of the land of Egypt;

And I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.

¹⁴And I will make Pathros desolate,

And will set a fire in Zoan,

And will execute judgments in No.

¹⁵And I will pour My fury upon Sin, the stronghold of Egypt;

And I will cut off the multitude of No.

¹⁶And I will set a fire in Egypt;

Sin shall be in great convulsion,

And No shall be rent asunder;

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