Ezekiel 29

Revised Geneva Translation

29 In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, the Word of the LORD came to me, saying:

² “Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against all Egypt.

³ “Speak, and say, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Behold, I come against you, Pharaoh, king of Egypt, the great dragon who lies in the midst of his rivers, who has said, ‘The river is mine and I have made it for myself.’

⁴ “But I will put hooks in your jaws; and I will cause the fish of your rivers to stick to your scales; and I will draw you out of the midst of your rivers; and all the fish of your rivers shall stick to your scales.

⁵ “And I will leave you in the wilderness, you and all the fish of your rivers. You shall fall upon the open field. You shall neither be brought together nor gathered. I have given you as food to the beasts of the field and to the birds of the sky.

⁶ “And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the LORD, because they have been but a staff of reed to the House of Israel.

⁷ “When they took hold of you with their hand, you broke and tore all their shoulders. And when they leaned upon you, you broke and made all their loins stand upright.”

⁸ ‘Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD: “Behold, I will bring a sword upon you, and destroy man and beast out of you.

⁹ “And the land of Egypt shall be desolate, and waste, and they shall know that I am the LORD, because he has said, ‘The river is mine,’ and ‘I have made it.’

¹⁰ “Behold, therefore, I come upon you, and upon your rivers. And I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from the tower of Syene to the borders of the black Moors.

¹¹ “Neither foot of man nor foot of beast shall pass by it, nor shall it be inhabited for forty years.

¹² “And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate. And her cities shall be desolate among the cities that are desolate for forty years. And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.”

¹³ ‘Yet thus says the Lord GOD: “At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the people, where they were scattered.

¹⁴ “And I will bring back the captives of Egypt and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their habitation. And they shall be a small kingdom there.

¹⁵ “It shall be the smallest of kingdoms, no longer exalting itself above the nations. For I will diminish them, so that they shall no longer rule the nations.

¹⁶ “And it shall no longer be the confidence of the House of Israel, but the iniquity of following after them shall be remembered. So shall they know that I am the Lord GOD.”’”

¹⁷ In the twenty-seventh year, also in the first month, on the first day of the month, came the Word of the LORD to me, saying:

¹⁸ “Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babel, caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre. Every head was made bald and every shoulder was made bare. Yet, neither he nor his army received wages for Tyre, for the service that he served against it.”

¹⁹ Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD: “Behold, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babel. And he shall take her abundance and plunder her spoil and rob her. And it shall be the wages for his army.

²⁰ “I have given him the land of Egypt for his labor that he served, because they worked for Me,” says the Lord GOD.

²¹ “On that day, I will cause the horn of the House of Israel to grow. And I will give you an open mouth in the midst of them. And they shall know that I am the LORD.”