17 At the beginning of May in the 27th year since King Yoyakin (Jehoiachin) had been taken captive,[fn] Yahweh gave me a message: 18 “Humanity’s child, the Babylonian King Nebuchadnetstsar stationed his army to do hard work against the fortified island city of Tsor (Tyre). Every head was rubbed until it was made bald, and every shoulder was made raw. Yet he and his army received no payment from Tsor for the hard work that he carried out against it, 19 therefore the master Yahweh says this, ‘Listen, I’m giving Egypt to the Babylonian King Nebuchadnetstsar and he will take away its wealth, plunder its possessions, and carry off everything he finds there—that will be his army’s wages. 20 I’ve given him the land of Egypt as the wages for the work they did for me. That is the master Yahweh’s declaration.

21 On that day I’ll make a horn sprout up for the kingdom of Yisrael, and I’ll put you among them to speak out so they’ll know that I am Yahweh.’ ”