Ezekiel 30

New King James Version

Egypt and Her Allies Will Fall

30 The word of the Lord came to me again, saying, ²“Son of man, prophesy and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God:

^(A)“Wail, ‘Woe to the day!’
³For ^(B)the day is near,
Even the day of the Lord is near;
It will be a day of clouds, the time of the Gentiles.
⁴The sword shall come upon Egypt,
And great anguish shall be in ^[a]Ethiopia,
When the slain fall in Egypt,
And they ^(C)take away her wealth,
And ^(D)her foundations are broken down.

⁵“Ethiopia, ^[b]Libya, ^[c]Lydia, ^(E)all the mingled people, Chub, and the men of the lands who are allied, shall fall with them by the sword.”

⁶‘Thus says the Lord:

“Those who uphold Egypt shall fall,
And the pride of her power shall come down.
^(F)From ^[d]Migdol to Syene
Those within her shall fall by the sword,”
Says the Lord God.

⁷“They^(G) shall be desolate in the midst of the desolate countries,
And her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are laid waste.
⁸Then they will know that I am the Lord,
When I have set a fire in Egypt
And all her helpers are destroyed.
⁹On that day ^(H)messengers shall go forth from Me in ships
To make the ^[e]careless Ethiopians afraid,
And great anguish shall come upon them,
As on the day of Egypt;
For indeed it is coming!”

¹⁰‘Thus says the Lord God:

^(I)“I will also make a multitude of Egypt to cease
By the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.
¹¹He and his people with him, ^(J)the most terrible of the nations,
Shall be brought to destroy the land;
They shall draw their swords against Egypt,
And fill the land with the slain.
¹²^(K)I will make the rivers dry,
And ^(L)sell the land into the hand of the wicked;
I will make the land waste, and all that is in it,
By the hand of aliens.
I, the Lord, have spoken.”

¹³‘Thus says the Lord God:

“I will also ^(M)destroy the idols,
And cause the images to cease from ^[f]Noph;
^(N)There shall no longer be princes from the land of Egypt;
^(O)I will put fear in the land of Egypt.
¹⁴I will make ^(P)Pathros desolate,
Set fire to ^(Q)Zoan,
^(R)And execute judgments in ^[g]No.
¹⁵I will pour My fury on ^[h]Sin, the strength of Egypt;
^(S)I will cut off the multitude of ^[i]No,
¹⁶And ^(T)set a fire in Egypt;
Sin shall have great pain,
No shall be split open,
And Noph shall be in distress daily.
¹⁷The young men of ^[j]Aven and Pi Beseth shall fall by the sword,
And these cities shall go into captivity.
¹⁸^(U)At ^[k]Tehaphnehes the day shall also be ^[l]darkened,
When I break the yokes of Egypt there.
And her arrogant strength shall cease in her;
As for her, a cloud shall cover her,
And her daughters shall go into captivity.
¹⁹Thus I will ^(V)execute judgments on Egypt,
Then they shall know that I am the Lord.” ’ ”

Proclamation Against Pharaoh

²⁰And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ²¹“Son of man, I have ^(W)broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and see, ^(X)it has not been bandaged for healing, nor a ^[m]splint put on to bind it, to make it strong enough to hold a sword. ²²Therefore thus says the Lord God: ‘Surely I am ^(Y)against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will ^(Z)break his arms, both the strong one and the one that was broken; and I will make the sword fall out of his hand. ²³^(AA)I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them throughout the countries. ²⁴I 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 will groan before him with the groanings of a mortally wounded man. ²⁵Thus I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, but the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; ^(AB)they shall know that I am the Lord, when I put My sword into the hand of the king of Babylon and he stretches it out against the land of Egypt. ²⁶^(AC)I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them throughout the countries. Then they shall know that I am the Lord.’ ”