17 At the beginning of May in the 27th year since King Yehoyakin had been taken captive,[fn] Yahweh gave me a message: 18 “Son of humanity, the Babylonian King Nevukadnetsar (Nebuchadnezzar) 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 Mitsrayim (Egypt) to the Babylonian King Nevukadnetsar and he’ll 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 Mitsrayim as the wages for the work they did for me. That’s the master Yahweh’s declaration.

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