Ezekiel 29:16-18

Holman Christian Standard Bible

¹⁶ It will never again be an object of trust^(A) for the house of Israel, drawing attention to their sin of turning to the Egyptians. Then they will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.”

Babylon Receives Egypt as Compensation

¹⁷ In the twenty-seventh year in the first month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me: ¹⁸ “Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made his army labor strenuously against Tyre.^(B) Every head was made bald and every shoulder chafed, but he and his army received no compensation from Tyre for the labor he expended against it.