Jeremiah 46:14
New American Standard Bible 1995
14 “Declare in Egypt and proclaim in (A)Migdol,
Proclaim also in Memphis and (B)Tahpanhes;
Say, ‘Take your stand and get yourself ready,
For the (C)sword has devoured those around you.’
Ezekiel 29-32
New American Standard Bible 1995
Judgment of Egypt
29 In the (A)tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth of the month, the word of the Lord came to me saying, 2 “Son of man, set your face against (B)Pharaoh king of Egypt and prophesy against him and against all (C)Egypt. 3 Speak and say, ‘Thus says the Lord [a]God,
“Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt,
The great [b](D)monster that lies in the midst of his [c]rivers,
That (E)has said, ‘My Nile is mine, and I myself have made it.’
4 “I will put (F)hooks in your jaws
And make the fish of your [d]rivers cling to your scales.
And I will bring you up out of the midst of your [e]rivers,
And all the fish of your [f]rivers will cling to your scales.
5 “I will (G)abandon you to the wilderness, you and all the fish of your [g]rivers;
You will fall on the [h]open field; you will not be brought together or [i](H)gathered.
I have given you for (I)food to the beasts of the earth and to the birds of the sky.
6 “Then all the inhabitants of Egypt will know that I am the Lord,
Because they have been only a (J)staff made of reed to the house of Israel.
7 “When they took hold of you with the hand,
You (K)broke and tore all their [j]hands;
And when they leaned on you,
You broke and made all their loins [k]quake.”
8 ‘Therefore thus says the Lord God, “Behold, I will (L)bring upon you a sword and I will cut off from you man and beast. 9 The (M)land of Egypt will become a desolation and waste. Then they will know that I am the Lord.
Because [l]you (N)said, ‘The Nile is mine, and I have made it,’ 10 therefore, behold, I am (O)against you and against your [m]rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from Migdol to Syene and even to the border of [n]Ethiopia. 11 A man’s foot will (P)not pass through it, and the foot of a beast will not pass through it, and it will not be inhabited for forty years. 12 So I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the (Q)midst of desolated lands. And her cities, in the midst of cities that are laid waste, will be desolate forty years; and I will (R)scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the lands.”
13 ‘For thus says the Lord God, “At the end of forty years I will (S)gather the Egyptians from the peoples [o]among whom they were scattered. 14 I will turn the fortunes of Egypt and make them return to the land of (T)Pathros, to the land of their origin, and there they will be a lowly kingdom. 15 It will be the (U)lowest of the kingdoms, and it will never again lift itself up above the nations. And I will make them so small that they will not (V)rule over the nations. 16 And it will never again be the (W)confidence of the house of Israel, [p](X)bringing to mind the iniquity of their having turned [q]to Egypt. Then they will know that I am the Lord God.”’”
17 Now in the (Y)twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first of the month, the word of the Lord came to me saying, 18 “Son of man, (Z)Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made his army labor [r]hard against Tyre; every head was made (AA)bald and every shoulder was rubbed bare. But he and his army had no wages from Tyre for the labor that he had [s]performed against it.” 19 Therefore thus says the Lord God, “Behold, I (AB)will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. And he will carry off her [t](AC)wealth and capture her spoil and seize her plunder; and it will be wages for his army. 20 I have given him the land of Egypt for his labor which he [u](AD)performed, because they acted for Me,” declares the Lord God.
21 “On that day I will make a (AE)horn sprout for the house of Israel, and I will [v](AF)open your mouth in their midst. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”
Lament over Egypt
30 The word of the Lord came again to me saying, 2 “Son of man, prophesy and say, ‘Thus says the Lord [w]God,
“(AG)Wail, ‘Alas for the day!’
3 “For the day is near,
Even (AH)the day of the Lord is near;
It will be a day of (AI)clouds,
A time of doom for the nations.
4 “A sword will come upon Egypt,
And anguish will be in [x]Ethiopia;
When the slain fall in Egypt,
They (AJ)take away her [y]wealth,
And her foundations are torn down.
5 [z]Ethiopia, Put, Lud, all [aa](AK)Arabia, [ab]Libya and the [ac]people of the land [ad]that is in league will fall with them by the sword.”
6 ‘Thus says the Lord,
“Indeed, those who support (AL)Egypt will fall
And the pride of her power will come down;
From Migdol to Syene
They will fall within her by the sword,”
Declares the Lord God.
7 “They will be desolate
In the (AM)midst of the desolated lands;
And her cities will be
In the midst of the devastated cities.
8 “And they will (AN)know that I am the Lord,
When I set a (AO)fire in Egypt
And all her helpers are broken.
9 On that day (AP)messengers will go forth from Me in ships to frighten (AQ)secure [ae]Ethiopia; and (AR)anguish will be on them as on the day of Egypt; for behold, it comes!”
10 ‘Thus says the Lord God,
“(AS)I will also make the [af]hordes of Egypt cease
By the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.
11 “He and his people with him,
(AT)The most ruthless of the nations,
Will be brought in to destroy the land;
And they will draw their swords against Egypt
And fill the land with the slain.
12 “Moreover, I will make the (AU)Nile canals dry
And (AV)sell the land into the hands of evil men.
And I will make the land desolate
And [ag]all that is in it,
By the hand of strangers; I the Lord have spoken.”
13 ‘Thus says the Lord God,
“I will also (AW)destroy the idols
And make the [ah]images cease from [ai](AX)Memphis.
And there will no longer be a prince in the land of Egypt;
And I will put fear in the land of Egypt.
14 “I will make (AY)Pathros desolate,
Set a fire in (AZ)Zoan
And execute judgments on [aj](BA)Thebes.
15 “I will pour out My wrath on [ak]Sin,
The stronghold of Egypt;
I will also cut off the hordes of [al]Thebes.
16 “I will set a fire in Egypt;
[am]Sin will writhe in anguish,
[an]Thebes will be breached
And [ao]Memphis will have [ap]distresses daily.
17 “The young men of [aq](BB)On and of Pi-beseth
Will fall by the sword,
And [ar]the women will go into captivity.
18 “In (BC)Tehaphnehes the day will [as]be (BD)dark
When I (BE)break there the yoke bars of Egypt.
Then the pride of her power will cease in her;
A cloud will cover her,
And her daughters will go into captivity.
19 “Thus I will (BF)execute judgments on Egypt,
And they will know that I am the Lord.”’”
Victory for Babylon
20 In the (BG)eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh of the month, the word of the Lord came to me saying, 21 “Son of man, I have (BH)broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, behold, it has not been (BI)bound up [at]for healing [au]or wrapped with a bandage, that it may be strong to hold the sword. 22 Therefore thus says the Lord God, ‘Behold, I am (BJ)against Pharaoh king of Egypt and will break his arms, both the strong and the (BK)broken; and I will make the sword (BL)fall from his hand. 23 I will (BM)scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the lands. 24 For I will (BN)strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon and put (BO)My sword in his hand; and I will break the arms of Pharaoh, so that he will groan before him with the groanings of a wounded man. 25 Thus I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, but the arms of Pharaoh will fall. Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I put My sword into the hand of the king of Babylon and he (BP)stretches it out against the land of Egypt. 26 When I scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the lands, then they will know that I am the Lord.’”
Pharaoh Warned of Assyria’s Fate
31 In the (BQ)eleventh year, in the third month, on the first of the month, the word of the Lord came to me saying, 2 “Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his (BR)hordes,
‘Whom are you like in your greatness?
3 ‘Behold, Assyria was a (BS)cedar in Lebanon
With beautiful branches and forest shade,
And [av](BT)very high,
And its top was among the [aw]clouds.
4 ‘The (BU)waters made it grow, the [ax]deep made it high.
With its rivers it continually [ay]extended all around its planting place,
And sent out its channels to all the trees of the field.
5 ‘Therefore (BV)its height was loftier than all the trees of the field
And its boughs became many and its branches long
Because of (BW)many waters [az]as it spread them out.
6 ‘All the (BX)birds of the heavens nested in its boughs,
And under its branches all the beasts of the field gave birth,
And all great nations lived under its shade.
7 ‘So it was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches;
For its [ba]roots extended to many waters.
8 ‘The (BY)cedars in (BZ)God’s garden [bb]could not match it;
The [bc]cypresses [bd]could not compare with its boughs,
And the plane trees [be]could not match its branches.
No tree in (CA)God’s garden [bf]could compare with it in its beauty.
9 ‘I made it beautiful with the multitude of its branches,
And all the trees of (CB)Eden, which were in the (CC)garden of God, were jealous of it.
10 ‘Therefore thus says the Lord [bg]God, “Because [bh]it is high in stature and has set its top among the [bi]clouds, and its (CD)heart is haughty in its loftiness, 11 therefore I will give it into the hand of a [bj](CE)despot of the nations; he will thoroughly deal with it. According to its wickedness I have (CF)driven it away. 12 (CG)Alien (CH)tyrants of the nations have cut it down and left it; on the (CI)mountains and in all the valleys its branches have fallen and its boughs have been broken in all the ravines of the land. And all the peoples of the earth have (CJ)gone down from its shade and left it. 13 On its ruin all the (CK)birds of the heavens will dwell, and all the beasts of the field will be on its fallen branches 14 so that all the trees by the waters may not be exalted in their stature, nor set their top among the [bk]clouds, nor their [bl]well-watered mighty ones stand erect in their height. For they have all been given over to death, to the (CL)earth beneath, among the sons of men, with those who go down to the pit.”
15 ‘Thus says the Lord God, “On the day when it went down to Sheol I (CM)caused lamentations; I closed the [bm]deep over it and held back its rivers. And its many waters were stopped up, and I made Lebanon [bn]mourn for it, and all the trees of the field wilted away on account of it. 16 I made the nations (CN)quake at the sound of its fall when I made it (CO)go down to Sheol with those who go down to the pit; and all the [bo]well-watered trees of Eden, the choicest and best of (CP)Lebanon, were (CQ)comforted in the earth beneath. 17 They also (CR)went down with it to Sheol to those who were (CS)slain by the sword; and those who were its [bp]strength lived (CT)under its shade among the nations.
18 “To which among the trees of Eden are you thus [bq]equal in glory and greatness? Yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the earth beneath; you will lie in the midst of the (CU)uncircumcised, with those who were slain by the sword. (CV)So is Pharaoh and all his hordes!”’ declares the Lord God.”
Lament over Pharaoh and Egypt
32 In the (CW)twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first of the month, the word of the Lord came to me saying, 2 “Son of man, take up a (CX)lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him,
‘You [br]compared yourself to a young (CY)lion of the nations,
Yet you are like the (CZ)monster in the seas;
And you (DA)burst forth in your rivers
And muddied the waters with your feet
And [bs]fouled their rivers.’”
3 Thus says the Lord [bt]God,
“Now I will (DB)spread My net over you
With a company of many peoples,
And they shall lift you up in My net.
4 “I will leave you on the land;
I will cast you on the [bu]open field.
And I will cause all the (DC)birds of the heavens to dwell on you,
And I will satisfy the beasts of the whole earth [bv]with you.
5 “I will lay your flesh (DD)on the mountains
And fill the valleys with your refuse.
6 “I will also make the land drink the discharge of your (DE)blood
As far as the mountains,
And the ravines will be full of you.
7 “And when I (DF)extinguish you,
I will (DG)cover the heavens and darken their (DH)stars;
I will cover the (DI)sun with a cloud
And the moon will not give its light.
8 “All the shining (DJ)lights in the heavens
I will darken over you
And will set darkness on your land,”
Declares the Lord God.
9 “I will also (DK)trouble the hearts of many peoples when I (DL)bring your destruction among the nations, into lands which you have not known. 10 I will make many peoples (DM)appalled at you, and their kings will be horribly afraid of you when I brandish My sword before them; and (DN)they will tremble every moment, every man for his own life, on the day of your fall.”
11 For (DO)thus says the Lord God, “The sword of the king of Babylon will come upon you. 12 By the swords of the mighty ones I will cause your hordes to fall; all of them are (DP)tyrants of the nations,
And they will (DQ)devastate the pride of Egypt,
And all its hordes will be destroyed.
13 “I will also destroy all its cattle from beside many waters;
And (DR)the foot of man will not muddy them anymore
And the hoofs of beasts will not muddy them.
14 “Then I will make their waters settle
And will cause their rivers to run like oil,”
Declares the Lord God.
15 “When I make the land of Egypt a (DS)desolation,
And the land is destitute of that which filled it,
When I smite all those who live in it,
Then they shall (DT)know that I am the Lord.
16 This is a (DU)lamentation and they shall [bw]chant it. The daughters of the nations shall [bx]chant it. Over Egypt and over all her hordes they shall [by]chant it,” declares the Lord God.
17 In the (DV)twelfth year, on the (DW)fifteenth of the month, the word of the Lord came to me saying, 18 “Son of man, (DX)wail for the hordes of Egypt and (DY)bring it down, her and the daughters of the powerful nations, to the (DZ)nether world, with those who go down to the pit;
19 ‘Whom do you surpass in beauty?
Go down and make your bed with the (EA)uncircumcised.’
20 They shall fall in the midst of those who are slain by the sword. [bz]She is given over to the sword; they have (EB)drawn her and all her hordes away. 21 The (EC)strong among the mighty ones shall speak of him and his helpers from the midst of Sheol, ‘They have gone down, they lie still, the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.’
22 “(ED)Assyria is there and all her company; [ca]her graves are round about [cb]her. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword, 23 whose (EE)graves are set in the remotest parts of the pit and her company is round about her grave. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword, who [cc]spread terror in the land of the living.
24 “(EF)Elam is there and all her hordes around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who went down uncircumcised to the (EG)lower parts of the earth, who instilled their terror in the (EH)land of the living and (EI)bore their disgrace with those who went down to the pit. 25 They have made a (EJ)bed for her among the slain with all her hordes. Her graves are around it, they are all uncircumcised, slain by the sword (although their terror was [cd]instilled in the land of the living), and they bore their disgrace with those who go down to the pit; [ce]they were put in the midst of the slain.
26 “(EK)Meshech, (EL)Tubal and all their hordes are there; their graves [cf]surround them. All of them were slain by the sword (EM)uncircumcised, though they instilled their terror in the land of the living. 27 (EN)Nor do they lie beside the fallen [cg](EO)heroes of the uncircumcised, who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war and whose swords were laid under their heads; but the punishment for their (EP)iniquity rested on their bones, though the terror of these [ch]heroes was once in the land of the living. 28 But in the midst of the uncircumcised you will be broken and lie with those slain by the sword.
29 “There also is (EQ)Edom, its kings and all its [ci]princes, who [cj]for all their might are laid with those slain by the sword; they will lie with the uncircumcised and with those who go down to the pit.
30 “There also are the [ck]chiefs of the (ER)north, all of them, and all the (ES)Sidonians, who in spite of the terror resulting from their might, in shame went down with the slain. So they lay down uncircumcised with those slain by the sword and bore their disgrace with those who go down to the pit.
31 “These Pharaoh will see, and he will be (ET)comforted for all his hordes slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his army,” declares the Lord God. 32 “Though I instilled a terror of him in the land of the living, yet he will be made to lie down among the uncircumcised along with those slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his hordes,” declares the Lord God.
Footnotes
- Ezekiel 29:3 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord, and so throughout the ch
- Ezekiel 29:3 Lit tannim
- Ezekiel 29:3 Or Nile
- Ezekiel 29:4 Or Nile
- Ezekiel 29:4 Or Nile
- Ezekiel 29:4 Or Nile
- Ezekiel 29:5 Or Nile
- Ezekiel 29:5 Lit faces of the field
- Ezekiel 29:5 Or with several mss and Targum, buried
- Ezekiel 29:7 So with some ancient versions; M.T. shoulders
- Ezekiel 29:7 Lit stand
- Ezekiel 29:9 Lit he
- Ezekiel 29:10 Or Nile
- Ezekiel 29:10 Lit Cush
- Ezekiel 29:13 Lit where
- Ezekiel 29:16 Lit causing to remember
- Ezekiel 29:16 Lit after them
- Ezekiel 29:18 Lit a great labor
- Ezekiel 29:18 Lit labored
- Ezekiel 29:19 Or multitude
- Ezekiel 29:20 Lit labored
- Ezekiel 29:21 Lit give you an opening of the mouth
- Ezekiel 30:2 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord, and so throughout the ch
- Ezekiel 30:4 Lit Cush
- Ezekiel 30:4 Or multitude
- Ezekiel 30:5 Lit Cush
- Ezekiel 30:5 Or the mixed people
- Ezekiel 30:5 Or Cub
- Ezekiel 30:5 Lit sons
- Ezekiel 30:5 Lit of the covenant
- Ezekiel 30:9 Lit Cush
- Ezekiel 30:10 Or people; lit crowd, and so throughout the ch
- Ezekiel 30:12 Lit her fullness
- Ezekiel 30:13 Or futile ones
- Ezekiel 30:13 Or Noph
- Ezekiel 30:14 Or No
- Ezekiel 30:15 Or Pelusium
- Ezekiel 30:15 Or No
- Ezekiel 30:16 Or Pelusium
- Ezekiel 30:16 Or No
- Ezekiel 30:16 Or Noph
- Ezekiel 30:16 Or adversaries
- Ezekiel 30:17 Or Aven
- Ezekiel 30:17 Lit they
- Ezekiel 30:18 So with many mss and ancient versions; M.T. restrain
- Ezekiel 30:21 Lit to give healing
- Ezekiel 30:21 Lit to put a bandage, to wrap it
- Ezekiel 31:3 Lit high of stature
- Ezekiel 31:3 So Gr; M.T. thick boughs
- Ezekiel 31:4 I.e. subterranean waters
- Ezekiel 31:4 Lit was going
- Ezekiel 31:5 Lit in its sending forth
- Ezekiel 31:7 Lit root was
- Ezekiel 31:8 Lit did
- Ezekiel 31:8 Or Phoenician junipers
- Ezekiel 31:8 Lit did
- Ezekiel 31:8 Lit were not like
- Ezekiel 31:8 Lit did
- Ezekiel 31:10 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord, and so throughout the ch
- Ezekiel 31:10 Lit you are
- Ezekiel 31:10 Or thick boughs
- Ezekiel 31:11 Or mighty one
- Ezekiel 31:14 Or thick boughs
- Ezekiel 31:14 Lit drinkers of water
- Ezekiel 31:15 I.e. subterranean waters
- Ezekiel 31:15 Lit be darkened
- Ezekiel 31:16 Lit drinkers of water
- Ezekiel 31:17 Lit arm
- Ezekiel 31:18 Lit like
- Ezekiel 32:2 Or were like
- Ezekiel 32:2 Lit fouled by stamping
- Ezekiel 32:3 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord, and so throughout the ch
- Ezekiel 32:4 Lit surface of the field
- Ezekiel 32:4 Lit from
- Ezekiel 32:16 Or lament
- Ezekiel 32:16 Or lament
- Ezekiel 32:16 Or lament
- Ezekiel 32:20 Or The sword is given
- Ezekiel 32:22 Lit his
- Ezekiel 32:22 Lit him
- Ezekiel 32:23 Lit gave, and so throughout the ch
- Ezekiel 32:25 Lit given
- Ezekiel 32:25 So with ancient versions; M.T. reads he was
- Ezekiel 32:26 Lit are around him
- Ezekiel 32:27 Or mighty ones
- Ezekiel 32:27 Or mighty ones
- Ezekiel 32:29 Or leaders
- Ezekiel 32:29 Or in
- Ezekiel 32:30 Or princes
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