Moff EZE Chapter 29

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29 In the tenth year, on the twelfth day of the tenths month, this word from the Eternal came to me: 2 “Son of man, turn to the Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him and all Egypt; 3 proclaim this message from the Lord the Eternal:

‘I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt,

you mighty monster lying in your streams,

thinking the Nile is your own, your own making!

I will drive hooks into your jaws,

and make the fishes of the Nile stick to your scales,

and I will haul you up out of your Nile,

with your fishes sticking to your scales,

and fling you out into the desert,

you and all the fishes of your Nile,

dropping you on the fields,

never to be gathered up or buried;

to the wild beasts and birds

I leave you for food.

So shall all dwellers in Egypt learn

that I am the Eternal.

Since you have been a poor staff of reeds to Israel,

breaking when they seized you,

tearing all their hand,

breaking when they leant on you,

shaking them to pieces-- 8 therefore the Lord the Eternal proclaims, I will bring a sword upon you, destroying man and beast within you, 9 till the land of Egypt lies desolate and waste. It is to teach Egypt that I am the Eternal, since he thought the Nile was his own, his own making! 10 Therefore am I against you and your Nile; I will turn the land of Egypt into an utter waste of desolation, from Migdol to Syene, to the very frontier of Ethiopia; 11 no foot of man shall pass over it, no foot of beast shall pass over it; for forty years it shall not be inhabited; 12 I will make the land of Egypt one of the desolate lands, and her cities, among desolate cities, shall lie waste for forty years; I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them over foreign countries. 13 Then, after forty years--says the Lord the Eternal--I will gather the Egyptians from the nations where they have been scattered, 14 and restore the fortunes of Egypt; I will bring them back to the land of Pathros, the land of their origin. There they shall form a weak kingdom, 15 the weakest of all kingdoms, a kingdom that never again shall rise to rule the nations; I will diminish them, till they cannot hold sway again over the nations. 16 No more shall Israel rely on Egypt, turning to them and thus reminding me of their crime. It will teach them that I am the Lord the Eternal.’ ”

17 In the twenty-seventh year, on the first day of the first month, this word from the Eternal came to me: 18 “Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon forced his army to make a great effort against Tyre, till every soldier’s head was rubbed bald and every shoulder galled, by this great effort against Tyre. 19 Therefore the Lord the Eternal declares, I will let Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon have the land of Egypt; he shall carry off its teeming people, he shall plunder it, and take it as his prey, to pay his army; 20 I assign him the land of Egypt in payment for the service that he rendered me, says the Lord the Eternal.”

21 [[In those days I will make the community of Israel thrive and flourish, and I wall open your lips among them; so shall they learn that I am the Eternal.]]

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