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Text -- Ezekiel 29:1-21 (NET)
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A Prophecy Against Egypt
29:1 In the tenth year , in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month , the word of the Lord came to me:
29:2 “Son of man , turn toward Pharaoh king of Egypt , and prophesy against him and against all Egypt .
29:3 Tell them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says : “‘Look , I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt , the great monster lying in the midst of its waterways , who has said , “My Nile is my own, I made it for myself.”
29:4 I will put hooks in your jaws and stick the fish of your waterways to your scales . I will haul you up from the midst of your waterways , and all the fish of your waterways will stick to your scales .
29:5 I will leave you in the wilderness , you and all the fish of your waterways ; you will fall in the open field and will not be gathered up or collected . I have given you as food to the beasts of the earth and the birds of the skies .
29:6 Then all those living in Egypt will know that I am the Lord because they were a reed staff for the house of Israel ;
29:7 when they grasped you with their hand , you broke and tore their shoulders , and when they leaned on you, you splintered and caused their legs to be unsteady .
29:8 “‘Therefore , this is what the sovereign Lord says : Look , I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will kill every person and every animal .
29:9 The land of Egypt will become a desolate ruin . Then they will know that I am the Lord . Because he said , “The Nile is mine and I made it,”
29:10 I am against you and your waterways . I will turn the land of Egypt into an utter desolate ruin from Migdol to Syene , as far as the border with Ethiopia .
29:11 No human foot will pass through it, and no animal’s foot will pass through it; it will be uninhabited for forty years .
29:12 I will turn the land of Egypt into a desolation in the midst of desolate lands ; for forty years her cities will lie desolate in the midst of ruined cities . I will scatter Egypt among the nations and disperse them among foreign countries .
29:13 “‘For this is what the sovereign Lord says : At the end of forty years I will gather Egypt from the peoples where they were scattered .
29:14 I will restore the fortunes of Egypt , and will bring them back to the land of Pathros , to the land of their origin ; there they will be an insignificant kingdom .
29:15 It will be the most insignificant of the kingdoms ; it will never again exalt itself over the nations . I will make them so small that they will not rule over the nations .
29:16 It will never again be Israel’s source of confidence , but a reminder of how they sinned by turning to Egypt for help. Then they will know that I am the sovereign Lord .’”
29:17 In the twenty-seventh year , in the first month, on the first day of the month , the word of the Lord came to me :
29:18 “Son of man , King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon made his army labor hard against Tyre . Every head was rubbed bald and every shoulder rubbed bare; yet he and his army received no wages from Tyre for the work he carried out against it.
29:19 Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says : Look , I am about to give the land of Egypt to King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon . He will carry off her wealth , capture her loot , and seize her plunder ; it will be his army’s wages .
29:20 I have given him the land of Egypt as his compensation for attacking Tyre, because they did it for me, declares the sovereign Lord .
29:21 On that day I will make Israel powerful , and I will give you the right to be heard among them. Then they will know that I am the Lord .”
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NET Notes: Eze 29:3 In Egyptian theology Pharaoh owned and controlled the Nile. See J. D. Currid, Ancient Egypt and the Old Testament, 240-44.
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NET Notes: Eze 29:7 Heb “you caused to stand for them all their hips.” An emendation which switches two letters but is supported by the LXX yields the reading...
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NET Notes: Eze 29:14 Thus the Masoretic Text. The LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate translate as though the Hebrew read “cause to inhabit.”
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