30:2 “Son of dust, prophesy and say: The Lord God says, ‘Weep, for the terrible day is almost here; the day of the Lord; a day of clouds and gloom; a day of despair for the nations!
30:3 “Son of dust, prophesy and say: The Lord God says, ‘Weep, for the terrible day is almost here; the day of the Lord; a day of clouds and gloom; a day of despair for the nations!
30:4 A sword shall fall on Egypt; the slain shall cover the ground. Her wealth is taken away, her foundations destroyed. The land of Cush has been ravished.
30:5 For Cush, Put, Lud, Arabia, and Libya, and all the countries leagued with them shall perish in that war.’”
30:6 For the Lord says: “All Egypt’s allies shall fall, and the pride of her power shall end. From Migdol to Syene they shall perish by the sword.
30:7 She shall be desolate, surrounded by desolate nations, and her cities shall be in ruins, surrounded by other ruined cities.
30:8 And they will know I am the Lord when I have set Egypt on fire and destroyed her allies.
30:9 At that time I will send swift messengers to bring panic to the Ethiopians; great terror shall befall them at that time of Egypt’s doom. This will all come true.”
30:10 For the Lord God says: “Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, will destroy the multitudes of Egypt.
30:11 He and his armies—the terror of the nations—are sent to demolish the land. They shall war against Egypt and cover the ground with the slain.
30:12 I will dry up the Nile and sell the whole land to wicked men. I will destroy Egypt and everything in it, using foreigners to do it. I, the Lord, have spoken it.
30:13 “And I will smash the idols of Egypt and the images at Memphis, and there will be no king in Egypt; anarchy shall reign!
30:14 “The cities of Pathros along the upper Nile, Zoan, and Thebes shall lie in ruins by my hand.
30:15 And I will pour out my fury upon Pelusium, the strongest fortress of Egypt, and I will stamp out the people of Thebes.
30:16 Yes, I will set fire to Egypt; Pelusium will be racked with pain. Thebes will be torn apart; Memphis will be in daily terror.
30:17 The young men of Heliopolis and Bubastis shall die by the sword, and the women will be taken away as slaves.
30:18 When I come to break the power of Egypt, it will be a dark day for Tahpanhes too; a dark cloud will cover her, and her daughters will be taken away as captives.
30:19 And so I will greatly punish Egypt and they shall know I am the Lord.”
30:20 A year later, around the middle of March of the eleventh year of King Jehoiachin’s captivity, this message came to me:
30:21 “Son of dust, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and it has not been set nor put into a cast to make it strong enough to hold a sword again.
30:22 For the Lord God says, I am against Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and I will break both his arms—the strong one and the one that was broken before, and I will make his sword clatter to the ground.
30:23 And I will banish the Egyptians to many lands.
30:24 And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon and place my sword in his hand. But I will break the arms of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and he shall groan before the king of Babylon as one who has been wounded unto death.
30:25 I will strengthen the hands of the king of Babylon, while the arms of Pharaoh fall useless to his sides. Yes, when I place my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he swings it over the land of Egypt, Egypt shall know I am the Lord.
30:26 I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations; then they shall know I am the Lord.”
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