Ezekiel 30

Yahweh’s word came again to me, saying,

“Wail, ‘Alas for the day!’

a time of the nations.

and her foundations are broken down.

“ ‘ “Ethiopia, Put, Lud, all the mixed people, Cub, and the children of the land that is allied with them, will fall with them by the sword.”

says the Lord Yahweh.

Her cities will be among the cities that are wasted.

and all her helpers are destroyed.

“ ‘ “In that day messengers will go out from before me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid. There will be anguish on them, as in the day of Egypt; for, behold, it comes.”

by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.

and fill the land with the slain.

I, Yahweh, have spoken it.”

I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.

and will execute judgments on No.

I will cut off the multitude of No.

Memphis will have adversaries in the daytime.

They will go into captivity.

and her daughters will go into captivity.

Then they will know that I am Yahweh.” ’ ”

In the eleventh year, in the first month, in the seventh day of the month, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

“Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Behold, it has not been bound up, to apply medicines, to put a bandage to bind it, that it become strong to hold the sword.

Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong arm, and that which was broken. I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.

I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.

I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand; but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan before the king of Babylon with the groaning of a mortally wounded man.

I will hold up the arms of the king of Babylon; and the arms of Pharaoh will fall down. Then they will know that I am Yahweh, when I put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he stretches it out on the land of Egypt.

I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them through the countries. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.’ ”