<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>

<p class="poetry">I will destroy all its cattle beside the plentiful waters;p> <p class="poetry">and no human foot will disturb<n id="1" /> the waters<n id="2" /> again,p> <p class="poetry">nor will the hooves of cattle disturb them.p>

&#8220;Son of man, wail<n id="1" /> over the horde of Egypt. Bring it down;<n id="2" /> bring<n id="3" /> her<n id="4" /> and the daughters of powerful nations down to the lower parts of the earth, along with those who descend to the pit.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Pharaoh will see them and be consoled over all his hordes who were killed by the sword, Pharaoh and all his army, declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>.

but there is one who hears the sound of the trumpet yet does not heed the warning. Then the sword comes and sweeps him away. He will be responsible for his own death.<n id="1" />

He heard the sound of the trumpet but did not heed the warning, so he is responsible for himself.<n id="1" /> If he had heeded the warning, he would have saved his life.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;As for you, son of man, I have made you a watchman<n id="1" /> for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you must warn them on my behalf.

I will turn the land into a desolate ruin; her confident pride will come to an end. The mountains of Israel will be so desolate no one will pass through them.

Then they will know that I am the <sc>Lordsc> when I turn the land into a desolate ruin because of all the abominable deeds they have committed.&#8217;<n id="1" />p>

Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture, that you must trample the rest of your pastures with your feet? When you drink clean water, must you muddy the rest of the water by trampling it with your feet?

Because you push with your side and your shoulder, and thrust your horns at all the weak sheep until you scatter them abroad,<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;You have shown unrelenting hostility and poured the people of Israel onto the blades of a sword<n id="1" /> at the time of their calamity, at the time of their final punishment.

Then you will know that I, the <sc>Lordsc>, have heard all the insults you spoke against the mountains of Israel, saying, &#8220;They are desolate, they have been given to us for food.&#8221;