Ezequiel 30

¹ The worde of the Lord came againe vnto me, saying,

² Sonne of man, prophesie, and say, Thus sayth the Lord God, Howle and cry, Wo be vnto this day.

³ For the day is neere, & the day of the Lord is at hand, a cloudie day, and it shall be the time of the heathen.

⁴ And the sword shall come vpon Egypt, and feare shall be in Ethiopia, when the slaine shall fall in Egypt, when they shall take away her multitude, and when her foundations shall be broken downe.

⁵ By Phut and Lud are meant Africa and Libya.Cush, 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.

⁶ Thus saith the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower ofWhich was a strong city of Egypt, (Eze_29:10).Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord GOD.

⁷ And they shall be desolate in the middes of the countries that are desolate, and her cities shall be in the middes of the cities that are wasted.

⁸ And they shall knowe that I am the Lord, when I haue set a fire in Egypt, and when all her helpers shall be destroyed.

⁹ In that day shall there messengers go forth from me in shippes, to make the carelesse Mores aftaide, and feare shall come vpon them, as in the day of Egypt: for loe, it commeth.

¹⁰ Thus sayth the Lord God, I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchad-nezzar King of Babel.

¹¹ For he and his people with him, euen the terrible nations shall be brought to destroy the land: and they shall drawe their swordes against Egypt, and fill the land with the slaine.

¹² And I will make the riuers drye, and fell the land into the hands of the wicked, and I will make the land waste, and all that therein is by the hands of strangers: I the Lord haue spoken it.

¹³ Thus saith the Lord God, I will also destroy the idoles, and I will cause their idoles to cease out of Noph, and there shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt, and I will send a feare in the land of Egypt.

¹⁴ And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, and I will execute iudgement in No.

¹⁵ And I will powre my wrath vpon Sin, which is the strength of Egypt: and I will destroy the multitude of No.

¹⁶ And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall haue great sorowe and No shalbe destroyed, and Noph shall haue sorowes dayly.

¹⁷ The yong men of Auen, and of Phibeseth shall fall by the sworde: and these cities shall goe into captiuitie.

¹⁸ At Tehaphnehes also the dayMeaning that there will be great sorrow and affliction.shall be darkened, when I shall break there theThat is, the strength and force.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.

¹⁹ Thus will I execute iudgements in Egypt, and they shall knowe that I am the Lord.

²⁰ And it came to pass in theOf the captivity of Jeconiah, or of Zedekiah's reign.eleventh year, in the first [month], in the seventh [day] of the month, [that] the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

²¹ Son of man,For Nebuchadnezzar destroyed Pharaoh Nebo at Carchemish, (Jer_46:26).I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed, to put a bandage to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword.

²² Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I [am] against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will breakHis force and power.his arms, the strong, and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.

²³ And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countreys.

²⁴ And I will strengthen the arme of the King of Babel, and put my sworde in his hand, but I will breake Pharaohs armes, and he shall cast out sighings, as the sighings of him, that is wounded before him.

²⁵ 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,By which we see that tyrants have no power of themselves, neither can do any more harm than God appoints and when he wills they must cease.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.

²⁶ And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, & disperse them among ye countreys, and they shall knowe, that I am the Lord.