Book of Ezekiel, Chapter 29
Ezekiel 29 RSV - Revised Standard VersionChapter 29 of Ezekiel—Revised Standard Version (RSV)
- ¶ In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me:
- “Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him and against all Egypt;
- speak, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD:
¶ “Behold, I am against you,
Pharaoh king of Egypt,
the great dragon that lies
in the midst of his streams,
that says, ‘My Nile is my own;
I made it.’[a] - I will put hooks in your jaws,
and make the fish of your streams stick to your scales;
and I will draw you up out of the midst of your streams,
with all the fish of your streams
which stick to your scales. - And I will cast you forth into the wilderness,
you and all the fish of your streams;
you shall fall upon the open field,
and not be gathered and buried.
To the beasts of the earth and to the birds of the air
I have given you as food. - ¶ “Then all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the LORD. Because you[b] have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel;
- when they grasped you with the hand, you broke, and tore all their shoulders; and when they leaned upon you, you broke, and made all their loins to shake;[c]
- therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will bring a sword upon you, and will cut off from you man and beast;
- and the land of Egypt shall be a desolation and a waste. Then they will know that I am the LORD.
¶ “Because you[d] said, ‘The Nile is mine, and I made it,’ - therefore, behold, I am against you, and against your streams, and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from Migdol to Syene, as far as the border of Ethiopia.
- No foot of man shall pass through it, and no foot of beast shall pass through it; it shall be uninhabited forty years.
- And I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of desolated countries; and her cities shall be a desolation forty years among cities that are laid waste. I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them through the countries.
- ¶ “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;
- and I will restore the fortunes of Egypt, and bring them back to the land of Pathros, the land of their origin; and there they shall be a lowly kingdom.
- It shall be the most lowly of the kingdoms, and never again exalt itself above the nations; and I will make them so small that they will never again rule over the nations.
- And it shall never again be the reliance of the house of Israel, recalling their iniquity, when they turn to them for aid. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD.”
- ¶ In the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me:
- “Son of man, Nebuchadrez′zar king of Babylon made his army labor hard against Tyre; every head was made bald and every shoulder was rubbed bare; yet neither he nor his army got anything from Tyre to pay for the labor that he had performed against it.
- Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadrez′zar king of Babylon; and he shall carry off its wealth[e] and despoil it and plunder it; and it shall be the wages for his army.
- I have given him the land of Egypt as his recompense for which he labored, because they worked for me, says the Lord GOD.
- ¶ “On that day I will cause a horn to spring forth to the house of Israel, and I will open your lips among them. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”
FOOTNOTES
- ^ Syr Compare Gk: Heb I have made myself
- ^ Gk Syr Vg: Heb they
- ^ Syr: Heb stand
- ^ Gk Syr Vg: Heb he
- ^ Or multitude
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