&#8220;Son of man, realize that I am about to take the delight of your eyes away from you with a jolt,<n id="1" /> but you must not mourn or weep or shed tears.

On that day you will be able to speak again;<n id="1" /> you will talk with the fugitive and be silent no longer. You will be an object lesson for them, and they will know that I am the <sc>Lordsc>.&#8221;p>

I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels and Ammon<n id="1" /> a resting place for sheep. Then you will know that I am the <sc>Lordsc>.

So look, I am about to open up Moab&#8217;s flank,<n id="1" /> eliminating the cities,<n id="2" /> including its frontier cities,<n id="3" /> the beauty of the land &#8211; Beth Jeshimoth, Baal Meon, and Kiriathaim.

I will exact great vengeance upon them with angry rebukes.<n id="1" /> Then they will know that I am the <sc>Lordsc>, when I exact my vengeance upon them.&#8217;&#8221;p>

With his horses&#8217; hoofs he will trample all your streets. He will kill your people with the sword, and your strong pillars will tumble down to the ground.

<p class="poetry">They crafted<n id="1" /> all your planks out of fir trees from Senir;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">they took a cedar from Lebanon to make your mast.p>

<p class="poetry">I placed you there with an anointed<n id="1" /> guardian<n id="2" /> cherub;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">you were on the holy mountain of God;p> <p class="poetry">you walked about amidst fiery stones.p>

I am against<n id="1" /> you and your waterways. I will turn the land of Egypt into an utter desolate ruin from Migdol<n id="2" /> to Syene,<n id="3" /> as far as the border with Ethiopia.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;For this is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: At the end of forty years<n id="1" /> I will gather Egypt from the peoples where they were scattered.

I will restore the fortunes of Egypt, and will bring them back<n id="1" /> to the land of Pathros, to the land of their origin; there they will be an insignificant kingdom.

I have given him the land of Egypt as his compensation for attacking Tyre<n id="1" />, because they did it for me, declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>.

<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>

<p class="poetry">He and his people with him,p> <p class="poetry">the most terrifying of the nations,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">will be brought there to destroy the land.p> <p class="poetry">They will draw their swords against Egypt,p> <p class="poetry">and fill the land with corpses.p>

<p class="poetry">I will dry up the waterwaysp> <p class="poetry">and hand the land over to<n id="1" /> evil men.p> <p class="poetry">I will make the land and everything in it desolate by the hand of foreigners.p> <p class="poetry">I, the <sc>Lordsc>, have spoken!p>

<p class="poetry">In Tahpanhes the day will be dark<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">when I break the yoke of Egypt there.p> <p class="poetry">Her confident pride will cease within her;p> <p class="poetry">a cloud will cover her, and her daughters will go into captivity.p>

<p class="poetry">The water made it grow;p> <p class="poetry">underground springs made it grow tall.p> <p class="poetry">Rivers flowed all around the place it was planted,p> <p class="poetry">while smaller channels watered all the trees of the field.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;&#8216;I will throw my net over you<n id="1" /> in the assembly of many peoples;p> <p class="poetry">and they will haul you up in my dragnet.p>

<p class="poetry">When I extinguish you, I will cover the sky;p> <p class="poetry">I will darken its stars.p> <p class="poetry">I will cover the sun with a cloud,p> <p class="poetry">and the moon will not shine.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">By the swords of the mighty warriors I will cause your hordes to fall &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">all of them are the most terrifying among the nations.p> <p class="poetry">They will devastate the pride of Egypt,p> <p class="poetry">and all its hordes will be destroyed.p>