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Ezekiel 29

Judgment of Egypt

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In the  atenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth of the month, the word of the LORD came to me saying,

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"Son of man, set your face against  aPharaoh king of Egypt and prophesy against him and against all  bEgypt.

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"Speak and say, `Thus says the Lord  1GOD, "Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, The great  2 amonster that lies in the midst of his  3rivers, That  bhas said, `My Nile is mine, and I myself have made it.'

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"I will put  ahooks in your jaws And make the fish of your  1rivers cling to your scales. And I will bring you up out of the midst of your  1rivers, And all the fish of your  1rivers will cling to your scales.

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"I will  aabandon you to the wilderness, you and all the fish of your  1rivers; You will fall on the  2open field; you will not be brought together or  3 bgathered. I have given you for  cfood to the beasts of the earth and to the birds of the sky.

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"Then all the inhabitants of Egypt will know that I am the LORD, Because they have been only a  astaff made of reed to the house of Israel.

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"When they took hold of you with the hand, You  abroke and tore all their  1hands; And when they leaned on you, You broke and made all their loins  2quake."

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`Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I will  abring upon you a sword and I will cut off from you man and beast.

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"The  aland of Egypt will become a desolation and waste. Then they will know that I am the LORD.

Because  1you  bsaid, `The Nile is mine, and I have made it,'

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therefore, behold, I am  aagainst you and against your  1rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from Migdol to Syene and even to the border of  2Ethiopia.

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"A man's foot will  anot pass through it, and the foot of a beast will not pass through it, and it will not be inhabited for forty years.

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"So I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the  amidst of desolated lands. And her cities, in the midst of cities that are laid waste, will be desolate forty years; and I will  bscatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the lands."

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`For thus says the Lord GOD, "At the end of forty years I will  agather the Egyptians from the peoples  1among whom they were scattered.

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"I will turn the fortunes of Egypt and make them return to the land of  aPathros, to the land of their origin, and there they will be a lowly kingdom.

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"It will be the  alowest 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  brule over the nations.

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"And it will never again be the  aconfidence of the house of Israel,  1 bbringing to mind the iniquity of their having turned  2to Egypt. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD.""'

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Now in the  atwenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first of the month, the word of the LORD came to me saying,

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"Son of man,  aNebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made his army labor  1hard against Tyre; every head was made  bbald and every shoulder was rubbed bare. But he and his army had no wages from Tyre for the labor that he had  2performed against it."

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Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I  awill give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. And he will carry off her  1 bwealth and capture her spoil and seize her plunder; and it will be wages for his army.

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"I have given him the land of Egypt for his labor which he  1 aperformed, because they acted for Me," declares the Lord GOD.

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"On that day I will make a  ahorn sprout for the house of Israel, and I will  1 bopen your mouth in their midst. Then they will know that I am the LORD."



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