Ezekiel 29:1-21 NIV
A Prophecy Against Egypt
Judgment on Pharaoh
1In the tenth year, in the tenth month on the twelfth day, The WORD
of The LORD Came To me: 2“Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt and
prophesy against him and against all Egypt. 3Speak to him and say:
‘This Is What The SOVEREIGN LORD Says:
“ ‘I AM Against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt,
you
great monster lying among your streams.
You
say, “The Nile belongs to me;
I made
it for myself.”
4But I Will Put hooks in your jaws
and Make
the fish of your streams stick to your scales.
I Will Pull you Out from among your streams,
with
all the fish sticking to your scales.
5I Will Leave you in the desert,
you and
all the fish of your streams.
You
will fall on the open field
and not
be gathered or picked up.
I Will Give you as food
to the
beasts of the earth and the birds of the sky.
“ ‘You have been a staff of
reed for the people of Israel. 7When they grasped you with their hands, you splintered and you
tore open their shoulders; when they leaned on you, you broke and their backs
were wrenched.a
8“ ‘Therefore ‘This Is What The SOVEREIGN LORD Says:
I Will Bring a sword against you and Kill both man and beast. 9Egypt will become a desolate wasteland.
I Will Bring a sword against you and Kill both man and beast. 9Egypt will become a desolate wasteland.
Then they will know that I AM The LORD.
“ ‘Because you said, “The Nile
is mine; I made it,” 10therefore
I AM Against you and Against your streams, and I Will Make the land of
Egypt a ruin and a desolate waste from Migdol to Aswan, as far
as the border of Cush.b 11The foot of neither man nor beast will pass through it; no one
will live there for forty years. 12I
Will Make the land of Egypt desolate among devastated lands,
and her cities will lie desolate forty years among ruined cities. And I
Will Disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them through
the
countries.
13“ ‘Yet ‘This Is What The SOVEREIGN LORD Says:
At the end of forty years I Will Gather the Egyptians from the nations where they were scattered. 14I Will Bring them back from captivity and return them to Upper Egypt, the land of their ancestry. There they will be a lowly kingdom. 15It will be the lowliest of kingdoms and will never again exalt itself above the other nations. I Will Make it so weak that it will never again rule over the nations. 16Egypt will no longer be a source of confidence for the people of Israel but will be a reminder of their sin in turning to her for help.
At the end of forty years I Will Gather the Egyptians from the nations where they were scattered. 14I Will Bring them back from captivity and return them to Upper Egypt, the land of their ancestry. There they will be a lowly kingdom. 15It will be the lowliest of kingdoms and will never again exalt itself above the other nations. I Will Make it so weak that it will never again rule over the nations. 16Egypt will no longer be a source of confidence for the people of Israel but will be a reminder of their sin in turning to her for help.
Then they will know that I AM The
SOVEREIGN LORD.’ ”
Nebuchadnezzar’s Reward
17In the twenty-seventh year, in the first month on the first day,
The WORD of The LORD Came To me: 18“Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon drove his army in a
hard campaign against Tyre; every head was rubbed bare and every shoulder made
raw. Yet he and his army got no reward from the campaign he led against Tyre.
19Therefore ‘This Is What The SOVEREIGN LORD Says:
I AM Going To Give Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will carry off its wealth. He will loot and plunder the land as pay for his army. 20I have given him Egypt as a reward for his efforts because he and his army did it for ME, Declares The SOVEREIGN LORD.
19Therefore ‘This Is What The SOVEREIGN LORD Says:
I AM Going To Give Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will carry off its wealth. He will loot and plunder the land as pay for his army. 20I have given him Egypt as a reward for his efforts because he and his army did it for ME, Declares The SOVEREIGN LORD.
Then
they will know that I AM The LORD.”
In Ezekiel 29-32 we
read prophecies against Egypt which, uttered (with the exception of Ezekiel 29:17 to
the end) in regular succession, predict the downfall of Pharaoh Hophra and the
desolation of Egypt.
Ezekiel 29:1-16: the
first prophecy against Egypt delivered some months before the preceding
prophecies against Tyre (see Ezekiel 26:1),
the prophecies against the nations being given, not in their chronological, but
in their geographical order, according to their nearness to Jerusalem.
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