Tell the ones who coat it with whitewash that it will fall. When there is a deluge of rain, hailstones will fall and a violent wind will break out.

“‘This is what the Lord says: Egypt’s supporters will fall; her confident pride will crumble. From Migdol to Syene they will die by the sword within her, declares the sovereign Lord.

Your altars will be ruined and your incense altars will be broken. I will throw down your slain in front of your idols.

The slain will fall among you and then you will know that I am the Lord.

I will knock your bow out of your left hand and make your arrows fall from your right hand.

You will die by the sword; I will judge you at the border of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

When the wall has collapsed, people will ask you, “Where is the whitewash you coated it with?”

Now you are wrecked by the seas, in the depths of the waters; your merchandise and all your company have sunk along with you.

Ethiopia, Put, Lud, all the foreigners, Libya, and the people of the covenant land will die by the sword along with them.

The young men of On and of Pi-beseth will die by the sword; and the cities will go into captivity.

They will fall among those killed by the sword. The sword is drawn; they carry her and all her hordes away.

“Assyria is there with all her assembly around her grave, all of them struck down by the sword.

I will fill its mountains with its dead; on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines, those killed by the sword will fall.

You will fall dead in the open field; for I have spoken, declares the sovereign Lord.

This is the land which you will allot to the tribes of Israel, and these are their portions, declares the sovereign Lord.

The fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the wild beasts, all the things that creep on the ground, and all people who live on the face of the earth will shake at my presence. The mountains will topple, the cliffs will fall, and every wall will fall to the ground.

You must allot it as an inheritance among yourselves and for the foreigners who reside among you, who have fathered sons among you. You must treat them as native-born among the people of Israel; they will be allotted an inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.

So I got up and went out to the valley, and the glory of the Lord was standing there, just like the glory I had seen by the Kebar River, and I threw myself face down.

A third of your people will die of plague or be overcome by the famine within you. A third of your people will fall by the sword surrounding you, and a third I will scatter to the winds. I will unleash a sword behind them.

The one far away will die by pestilence, the one close by will fall by the sword, and whoever is left and has escaped these will die by famine. I will fully vent my rage against them.