Ezekiel 29

¹ In the tenth year, in the tenth [month], in the twelfth of the month, has a word of Yahweh been unto me, saying, ² "Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy concerning him, and concerning Egypt - all of it. ³ Speak, and you have said: Thus said the Lord Yahweh: Lo, I [am] against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt! The great dragon that is crouching in the midst of his floods, Who has said, My flood [is] my own, And I - I have made it [for] myself. ⁴ And I have put hooks in your jaws, And I have caused the fish of your floods to cleave to your scales, And I have caused you to come up from the midst of your floods, And every fish of your floods to your scales does cleave. ⁵ And I have left you in the wilderness, You and every fish of your floods, On the face of the field you do fall, You are not gathered nor assembled, To the beast of the earth and to the fowl of the heavens I have given you for food. ⁶ And known have all inhabitants of Egypt That I [am] Yahweh, Because of their being a staff of reed to the house of Israel. ⁷ In their taking hold of you by your hand, you are crushed, And have rent to them all the shoulder, And in their leaning on you you are broken, And have caused all their thighs to stand. ⁸ Therefore, thus said the Lord Yahweh: Lo, I am bringing in against you a sword, And have cut off from you man and beast. ⁹ And the land of Egypt has been for a desolation and a waste, And they have known that I [am] Yahweh. Because he said: The flood [is] mine, and I made [it]. ¹⁰ Therefore, lo, I [am] against you, and against your floods, And have given the land of Egypt for wastes, A waste, a desolation, from Migdol to Syene, And unto the border of Cush. ¹¹ Not pass over into it does a foot of man, Yea, the foot of beast does not pass into it, Nor is it inhabited forty years. ¹² And I have made the land of Egypt a desolation, In the midst of desolate lands, And its cities, in the midst of waste cities, Are a desolation forty years, And I have scattered the Egyptians among nations, And I have dispersed them through lands. ¹³ But thus said the Lord Yahweh: At the end of forty years I gather the Egyptians Out of the peoples whither they have been scattered, ¹⁴ And I have turned back [to] the captivity of Egypt, And I have brought them back [To] the land of Pathros, to the land of their birth, And they have been there a low kingdom. ¹⁵ Of the kingdoms it is low, And it lifts not up itself any more above the nations, And I have made them few, So as not to rule among nations. ¹⁶ And it is no more to the house of Israel for a confidence, Bringing iniquity to remembrance, By their turning after them, And they have known that I [am] the Lord Yahweh." ¹⁷ And it comes to pass, in the twenty and seventh year, in the first [month], in the first of the month, has a word of Yahweh been unto me, saying: ¹⁸ "Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, Has caused his force to serve a great service against Tyre, Every head [is] bald - every shoulder peeled, And reward he had none, nor his force, out of Tyre, For the service that he served against it. ¹⁹ Therefore, thus said the Lord Yahweh, Lo, I am giving to Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon the land of Egypt, And he has taken away its store, And has taken its spoil, and taken its prey, And it has been a reward to his force. ²⁰ His wage for which he labored I have given to him, The land of Egypt - in that they wrought for Me, An affirmation of the Lord Yahweh. ²¹ In that day I cause to shoot up a horn to the house of Israel, And to you I give an opening of the mouth in their midst, And they have known that I [am] Yahweh!"