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when they grasped you with the hand, you broke,
    and tore all their shoulders;
and when they leaned on you, you broke,
    and made all their legs unsteady.[a]

Therefore, thus says the Lord God: I will bring a sword upon you, and will cut off from you human being and animal; and the land of Egypt shall be a desolation and a waste. Then they shall know that I am the Lord.

Because you[b] said, ‘The Nile is mine, and I made it’,

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 29:7 Syr: Heb stand
  2. Ezekiel 29:9 Gk Syr Vg: Heb he

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