30:1 The word of the LORD came again to me, saying,
30:2 Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Howl
ye, Alas the day!
30:3 For the day [is] near, even the day of the LORD [is] near,
a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen.
30:4 And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great pain shall
be in Cush, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they shall
take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken
down.
30:5 Cush, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the mingled people, and
Kub, and the men of the land that is in league, shall fall with
them by the sword.
30:6 Thus saith the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt shall
fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the
tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the
Lord GOD.
30:7 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.
30:8 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.
30:9 In that day shall messengers go forth from me in ships to
make the careless Cushites afraid, and great pain shall come
upon them, as in the day of Egypt: for lo, it cometh.
30:10 Thus saith the Lord God; I will also make the multitude of
Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon.
30:11 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.
30:12 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 in it, by the hand of strangers: I the LORD have spoken
[it].
30:13 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.
30:14 And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in
Zoan, and will execute judgments in No.
30:15 And I will pour my fury upon Sin, the strength of Egypt;
and I will cut off the multitude of No.
30:16 And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall have great pain,
and No shall be rent asunder, and Noph [shall have] distresses
daily.
30:17 The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the
sword: and these [cities] shall go into captivity.
30:18 At Tehaphnehes 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.
30:19 Thus will I execute judgments in Egypt: and they shall
know that I [am] the LORD.
30:20 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 to me, saying,
30:21 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.
30:22 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.
30:23 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and
will disperse them through the countries.
30:24 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].
30:25 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, 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.
30:26 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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