20 At the beginning of May in the eleventh year since King Yoyakin (Jehoiachin) had been taken captive,[fn] Yahweh gave me a message: 21 “Humanity’s child, I’ve broken the Egyptian king Far-oh’s arm. Listen, it hasn’t been put in a splint, or set to heal with a bandage, so that it’ll become strong enough again to hold a sword. 22 Therefore the master Yahweh says this, ‘Listen, I’m against the Egyptian king Far-oh and I’ll break both his strong arm and the previously broken one, and I’ll make the sword fall from his grip. 23 Then I’ll scatter Egypt among the other nations and disperse their people among the lands. 24 I’ll strengthen the Babylonian king’s arms and place my sword in his hand so that I can destroy Far-oh’s arms. He’ll groan in front of the Babylonian king with the groans of a dying man. 25 I’ll strengthen the arms of the Babylonian king, while Far-oh’s arms will fall. Then they’ll know that I am Yahweh, when I put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon and he uses it against Egypt. 26 I’ll scatter Egypt among the other nations and disperse their people through the lands. Then they’ll know that I am Yahweh.”