Chapter 30

  The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying,  

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  Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Wail you, Alas for the day!  

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  For the day is near, even the day of Yahweh is near; it shall be a day of clouds, a time of the nations.  

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  A sword shall come on Egypt, and anguish shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt; and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down.  

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  Ethiopia, and Put, and Lud, and all the mingled people, and Cub, and the children of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword.  

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  Thus says Yahweh: They also who uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Seveneh shall they fall in it by the sword, says the Lord Yahweh.  

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  They shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate; and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted.  

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  They shall know at I am Yahweh, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and all her helpers are destroyed.  

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  In that day shall messengers go forth from before me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid; and there shall be anguish on them, as in the day of Egypt; for, behold, it comes.  

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  Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease, by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon.  

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  He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought in to destroy the land; and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.  

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  I will make the rivers dry, and will sell the land into the hand of evil men; and I will make the land desolate, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I, Yahweh, have spoken it.  

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  Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause the images to cease from Memphis; and there shall be no more a prince from the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.  

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  I will make Pathros desolate, and will set a fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments on No.  

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  I will pour my wrath on Sin, the stronghold of Egypt; and I will cut off the multitude of No.  

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  I will set a fire in Egypt: Sin shall be in great anguish, and No shall be broken up; and Memphis [shall have] adversaries in the day-time.  

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  The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword; and these [cities] shall go into captivity.  

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  At Tehaphnehes also the day shall withdraw itself, when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt, and the pride of her power shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity.  

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  Thus will I execute judgments on Egypt; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.  

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  It happened in the eleventh year, in the first [month], in the seventh [day] of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,  

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  Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, behold, it has not been bound up, to apply [healing] medicines, to put a bandage to bind it, that it be strong to hold the sword.  

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  Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong [arm], and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.  

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  I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.  

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  I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand: but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded man.  

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  I will hold up the arms of the king of Babylon; and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out on the land of Egypt.  

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  I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them through the countries; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.  

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