<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Suppose I were to send wild animals through the land and kill its children, leaving it desolate, without travelers due to the wild animals.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;This will be their inheritance: I am their inheritance, and you must give them no property in Israel; I am their property.<n id="1" />

It will be their portion from the allotment of the land, a most holy place, next to the border of the Levites.p>

You will be<n id="1" /> an object of scorn and taunting,<n id="2" /> a prime example of destruction<n id="3" /> among the nations around you when I execute judgments against you in anger and raging fury.<n id="4" /> I, the <sc>Lord,sc> have spoken!

She will be a place where fishing nets are spread, surrounded by the sea. For I have spoken, declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>. She will become plunder for the nations,

The land of Egypt will become a desolate ruin. Then they will know that I am the <sc>Lordsc>.p> <p class="bodytext">Because he said, &#8220;The Nile is mine and I made it,&#8221;

<p class="poetry">A sword will come against Egyptp> <p class="poetry">and panic will overtake Ethiopiap> <p class="poetry">when the slain fall in Egyptp> <p class="poetry">and they carry away her wealthp> <p class="poetry">and dismantle her foundations.p>

<p class="bodytext">On that day messengers will go out from me in ships to frighten overly confident Ethiopia; panic will overtake them on the day of Egypt&#8217;s doom;<n id="1" /> for beware &#8211; it is coming!p>

But if he gives a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, it will be his until the year of liberty;<n id="1" /> then it will revert to the prince. His inheritance will only remain with his sons.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;The remainder, one and two-thirds miles<n id="1" /> in width and eight and a quarter miles<n id="2" /> in length, will be for common use by the city, for houses and for open space. The city will be in the middle of it;

Then for your part take an iron frying pan<n id="1" /> and set it up as an iron wall between you and the city. Set your face toward it. It is to be under siege; you are to besiege it. This is a sign<n id="2" /> for the house of Israel.p>

My hand will be against the prophets who see delusion and announce lying omens. They will not be included in the council<n id="1" /> of my people, nor be written in the registry<n id="2" /> of the house of Israel, nor enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>.p>

Therefore this is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> 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&#8217;s wages.

The remainder of the length alongside the holy allotment will be three and one-third miles<n id="1" /> to the east and three and one-third miles toward the west, and it will be beside the holy allotment. Its produce will be for food for the workers of the city.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;The rest, on both sides of the holy allotment and the property of the city, will belong to the prince. Extending from the eight and a quarter miles<n id="1" /> of the holy allotment to the east border, and westward from the eight and a quarter miles<n id="2" /> to the west border, alongside the portions, it will belong to the prince. The holy allotment and the sanctuary of the temple will be in the middle of it.