﻿Ezekiel.
Chapter 29.
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, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster lying among his rivers, who has said, “My Nile is mine, and I made myself.” 
I will put hooks in your jaws and make the fish of your rivers cling to your scales. I will bring you up from your rivers, with all the fish of your rivers clinging to your scales. 
I will abandon you in the wilderness, you and all the fish of your rivers. You will fall in the open field and will not be gathered or collected. I have given you as food to the beasts of the earth and the birds of the heavens. 
All the inhabitants of Egypt will know that I am the LORD, because they have been a reed staff for the house of Israel. 
When they grasped you in the hand, you splintered and tore all their shoulders. When they leaned on you, you broke and made them all straighten their backs. 
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I will bring a sword against you and cut off people and animals from you. 
The land of Egypt will become a desolation and a waste, and they will know that I am the LORD. Because he said, “The Nile is mine, and I made it,” 
therefore I am against you and your rivers. I will make the land of Egypt utterly ruined and desolate, from Migdol to Syene, as far as the border of Cush. 
No human foot will pass through it, and no animal foot will pass through it. It will not be inhabited for forty years. 
I will make the land of Egypt a desolation among desolate lands, and its cities will be desolate among ruined cities for forty years. I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the countries. 
For this is what the Lord GOD says: At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples among whom they were scattered. 
I will restore the fortunes of Egypt and bring them back to the land of Pathros, to the land of their origin. There they will be a lowly kingdom. 
It will be the lowliest of kingdoms and will no longer exalt itself over the nations. I will diminish them so that they will no longer rule over the nations. 
It will no longer be a source of confidence for the house of Israel, bringing iniquity to remembrance when they turn to them. 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, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made his army labor hard against Tyre. Every head was made bald, and every shoulder rubbed raw. Yet neither he nor his army received wages from Tyre for the labor he performed against her. 
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I am giving the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. He will carry off its wealth, take its spoil, and seize its plunder. It will be the wages for his army. 
As payment for the labor he performed against her, I have given him the land of Egypt, because they worked for me, declares the Lord GOD. 
On that day I will make a horn sprout for the house of Israel, and I will enable you to open your mouth among them. Then they will know that I am the LORD.” 
