30:2 Son of man, prophesy, and say: Thus says the Lord God: Cry out, “Alas for the day!”
30:3 For near is the day. The day of the Lord is near. It will be a day of clouds, a day of reckoning for the nations.
30:4 The sword will fall on Egypt, and there will be anguish in Ethiopia when the slain fall in Egypt, when her riches are seized and her foundations are destroyed.
30:5 Ethiopia and Put and Lud, and all Arabia and Lybia, and the people of the covenant land will fall with them by the sword.
30:6 Thus says the Lord: Those who support Egypt shall fall, and her proud strength will be brought low. From Migdol to Syene, they shall fall by the sword, says the Lord God.
30:7 They will be the most desolate of desolate lands, and their cities will lie in the midst of ruined cities.
30:8 Then they will know that I am the Lord when I set fire to Egypt and all her helpers are crushed.
30:9 On that day, I will commission messengers to hasten forth by ship at my command to strike terror into the hearts of the complacent Ethiopians, and anguish will afflict them on the day of Egypt’s destruction, which is near at hand.
30:10 Thus says the Lord God: I will put an end to the hordes of Egypt by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon.
30:11 He and his armed forces, the most ruthless of the nations, will be brought in to ravage the land. They shall draw their swords against Egypt, and the land will be covered with corpses.
30:12 I will dry up the channels of the Nile and sell the land to wicked men. By the hand of foreigners the entire land and everything in it will be laid waste. I, the Lord, have spoken.
30:13 Thus says the Lord God: I will destroy the idols and put an end to the false gods in Memphis. There will no longer be a prince in Egypt, and I will instill terror in that land.
30:14 I will make Pathros a place of desolation; I will set fire to Zoan and inflict my punishments on Thebes.
30:15 I will pour forth my wrath upon Pelusium, the stronghold of Egypt, and destroy the hordes of Thebes.
30:16 I will set fire to Egypt; Syene shall writhe in agony. Thebes shall be breached, and its walls shall be demolished.
30:17 The young men of On and Pi-beseth shall fall by the sword, and the cities themselves shall be taken into captivity.
30:18 At Tahpanhes, the day will turn into darkness when I shatter the scepter of Egypt there, and its proud might shall come to an end. Egypt will be covered with a cloud, and her villages will go into captivity.
30:19 These will be the punishments I inflict upon Egypt. Then they will know that I am the Lord.
30:20 In the eleventh year, on the seventh day of the first month, this word of the Lord came to me:
30:21 Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. As you can see, it has not been bound up for healing or wrapped with a bandage to make it strong enough to wield a sword.
30:22 Therefore, thus says the Lord God: I am prepared to move against Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. I will break his arms, both the uninjured one and the one that was broken, and make the sword fall from his hand.
30:23 I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands.
30:24 I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon and put my sword in his hand. However, I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will lie wounded and groaning before him like a dying man.
30:25 I will strengthen even more the arms of the king of Babylon, but the arms of Pharaoh will fall. Then they shall know that I am the Lord, when I put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon for him to wield against the land of Egypt.
30:26 I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them in foreign countries. Then they will know that I am the Lord.
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