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That day is near!
    Yes, the Lord’s day for judging is near.
It will be a cloudy day,
    the time for judging the nations.
A sword will come against Egypt!
    People in Ethiopia will shake with fear, when Egypt falls.
The army of Babylon will take the Egyptians as prisoners.
    Egypt’s foundations will be torn down.

“‘Many people made peace agreements with Egypt. But all those people from Ethiopia, Put, Lud, all Arabia, Libya, and the people of Israel[a] will be destroyed!

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 30:5 people of Israel Literally, “sons of the agreement.” This might mean “all the people who made peace agreements with Egypt,” or it might mean “Israel, the people who made the agreement with God.”

For the day is near,(A)
    the day of the Lord(B) is near—
a day of clouds,
    a time of doom for the nations.
A sword will come against Egypt,(C)
    and anguish will come upon Cush.[a](D)
When the slain fall in Egypt,
    her wealth will be carried away
    and her foundations torn down.(E)

Cush and Libya,(F) Lydia and all Arabia,(G) Kub and the people(H) of the covenant land will fall by the sword along with Egypt.(I)

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 30:4 That is, the upper Nile region; also in verses 5 and 9