Ezekiel 30

A Lament over the Nation and Land of Egypt

¹And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,[#Literally “was”; #Literally “to say”]

²“Son of man, prophesy, and you must say, ‘thus says the Lord Yahweh:[#Or “mortal,” or “son of humankind”]

“Wail, alas! For the day!

A day of cloud,

⁴And a sword will come in Egypt,

at the falling of the slain in Egypt.

And they will take its wealth,

⁵Cush and Put and Lud and all of Arabia and Kub and the people of the land of the treaty with them—by the sword they will fall.”[#Or “children”; #Or “covenant”]

⁶Thus says Yahweh:

“And the supporters of Egypt will fall,

from Migdol to Syene;

declares the Lord Yahweh.

⁷“And they will be desolate in the midst of desolate countries,

⁸And they will know that I am Yahweh

⁹On that day messengers will go down from before me in the ships to terrify unsuspecting Cush, and anguish will be in them on the day of Egypt; for look, it is coming!”[#Literally “to the face of me”]

¹⁰Thus says the Lord Yahweh:

“And I will put an end to the crowds of Egypt

¹¹He and his people with him, the most ruthless of nations,

And they will draw their swords against Egypt,

¹²and I will make the Nile streams dry land,

and I will lay waste the land and its fullness

I, Yahweh, I have spoken.”

¹³Thus says the Lord Yahweh:

“And I will destroy the idols,

And there will no longer be a prince from the land of Egypt,

¹⁴And I will lay waste Pathros,

¹⁵I will pour out my rage over Sin,

¹⁶And I will set fire in Egypt,

and No will be breached,

¹⁷The young men of On and Pi Beseth will fall by the sword,

¹⁸And at Tahpanhes the day will become dark

and in it the majesty of its strength

A cloud will cover it,

¹⁹And I will execute judgments in Egypt,

²⁰And then in the eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh day of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,[#Literally “and it was”; #Literally “on one ten”; #Literally “was”; #Literally “to say”]

²¹“Son of man, the arm of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, I have broken. And look, it has not been bound up for giving of a remedy, or for the placing of a splint to bind it up to make it strong to take hold of the sword.”[#Or “mortal,” or “son of humankind”]

²²Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Look! I am against Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and I will break his strong arm and the broken arm, and I will let the sword fall from his hand.

²³And I will scatter Egypt among the nations, and I will disperse them among the countries.

²⁴And I will strengthen the arm of the king of Babylon, and I will give my sword into his hand, and I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan with the groaning of the mortally wounded before him.[#Literally “the face of him”]

²⁵And I will strengthen the arm of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh will fall. And they will know that I am Yahweh when I give my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will stretch it out to the land of Egypt.

²⁶And I will scatter Egypt among the nations, and I will disperse them into the countries, and they will know that I am Yahweh.”