30:13 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says:
I will destroy the idols,
and put an end to the gods of Memphis.
There will no longer be a prince from the land of Egypt;
so I will make the land of Egypt fearful. 1
30:14 I will desolate Pathros,
I will ignite a fire in Zoan,
and I will execute judgments on Thebes.
30:15 I will pour out my anger upon Pelusium, 2
the stronghold of Egypt;
I will cut off 3 the hordes of Thebes.
30:16 I will ignite a fire in Egypt;
Syene 4 will writhe in agony,
Thebes will be broken down,
and Memphis will face enemies every day.
30:17 The young men of On and of Pi-beseth 5 will die by the sword;
and the cities will go 6 into captivity.
30:18 In Tahpanhes the day will be dark 7
when I break the yoke of Egypt there.
Her confident pride will cease within her;
a cloud will cover her, and her daughters will go into captivity.
30:19 I will execute judgments on Egypt.
Then they will know that I am the Lord.’”
1 tn Heb “I will put fear in the land of Egypt.”
2 tn Heb “Sin” (so KJV, NASB), a city commonly identified with Pelusium, a fortress on Egypt’s northeastern frontier.
3 tn Or “kill.”
4 tc The LXX reads “Syene,” which is Aswan in the south. The MT reads Sin, which has already been mentioned in v. 15.
5 sn On and Pi-beseth are generally identified with the Egyptian cities of Heliopolis and Bubastis.
6 tn Heb “they will go.” The pronoun and verb are feminine plural, indicating that the cities just mentioned are the antecedent of the pronoun and the subject of the verb. The translation makes this clear by stating the subject as “the cities.”
7 sn In Zeph 1:15 darkness is associated with the day of the