Ezekiel 30
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The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
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Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith
the Lord GOD; Howl ye, Woe worth the
day!
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For the day is near, even the day
of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it
shall be the time of the heathen.
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And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and
great pain 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 Libya, and Lydia, and all
the mingled people, and Chub, and the men of the land that is in
league, shall fall with them by the sword.
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Thus saith the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the
pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Sy-e'ne shall
they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord GOD.
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And 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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And they shall know that I am the
LORD, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and when all her helpers shall be destroyed.
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In that day shall messengers go forth
from me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid, and great
pain shall come upon them, as in the day of Egypt: for, lo, it
cometh.
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Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease
by the hand of Nebuchadrez'zar king of Babylon.
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He and his people with him, the terrible
of the nations, shall be brought to destroy the land: and they shall
draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the
slain.
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And I will make the rivers dry, and sell
the land into the hand of the wicked: and I will make the land
waste, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the
LORD have spoken it.
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Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause their images to cease out of Noph; and there shall be no more
a prince of the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of
Egypt.
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And I will make Pathros desolate, and
will set fire in Zo'an, and will execute judgments in No.
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And I will pour my fury upon Sin, the
strength of Egypt; and I will cut off the multitude of No.
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And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall
have great pain, and No shall be rent asunder, and Noph shall
have distresses daily.
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The young men of Aven and of Pi-be'seth
shall fall by the sword: and these cities shall go into
captivity.
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At Tehaph'nehes also the day shall be
darkened, when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt: and the pomp
of her strength 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 in Egypt:
and they shall know that I am the LORD.
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And it came to pass in the eleventh
year, in the first month, in the seventh day of the
month, that the word of the LORD came
unto me, saying,
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Son of man, I have broken the arm of
Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, lo, it shall not be bound up to be
healed, to put a roller to bind it, to make it strong to hold the
sword.
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Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of
Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong, and that which was
broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his
hand.
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And I will scatter the Egyptians among
the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.
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And I will strengthen the arms of the
king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand: but I will break
Pharaoh's arms, and he shall groan before him with the groanings of
a deadly wounded man.
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But I will strengthen the arms of the
king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they
shall know that I am the LORD, when I
shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he
shall stretch it out upon the land of Egypt.
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And I will scatter the Egyptians among
the nations, and disperse them among the countries; and they shall
know that I am the LORD.
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