Chapter 30 The Word of the Lord came again unto me, saying, Son of man, prophesy,
and say, Thus saith the Lord God, How ye?
Woe worth the day!
For the day is near, even the day of the Lord is near, A cloudy day.
It shall be the time of the heathen, And the sword shall come upon Egypt,
And great pain shall be in Ethiopia, When the slain shall fall in Egypt,
And they shall take away her multitude, And her foundations shall be broken down,
Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, And all the mingled people, and Cub,
And the men of the land that is in league Shall fall with them by the sword.
Thus saith the Lord, They also that uphold Egypt shall fall, And the pride of her
power shall come down, From the tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword,
Saith the Lord God.
And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate,
And her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted, And they shall
know that I am the Lord, When I have set a fire in Egypt, And when all her helpers
shall be destroyed.
In that day shall messengers go forth from me in ships, To make the careless
Ethiopians afraid, And great pain shall come upon them as in the day of Egypt,
For lo, it cometh.
Thus saith the Lord God, I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the
hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, He and his people with him, The terrible
of the nations shall be brought to destroy the land, And they shall draw their swords
against Egypt, And fill the land with the slain, And I will make the rivers dry,
And sell the land into the hand of the wicked, And I will make the land waste,
And all that is therein by the hand of strangers, I the Lord have spoken it.
Thus saith the Lord God, I will also destroy the idols, And I will cause their
images to cease out of Noth, And there shall be no more a prince of the land of
Egypt, And I will put a fear in the land of Egypt, And I will make Pathros
desolate, And I will set fire in Zoan, And will execute judgments in Noh,
And I will pour my fury upon Sin, The strength of Egypt, And I will cut off
the multitude of Noh, And I will set fire in Egypt, Sin shall have great pain,
And Noh shall be rent asunder, And Noth shall have distresses daily,
The young men of Avon and of Pibeseth Shall fall by the sword, And these cities
shall go into captivity, At Tehafenes also the day shall be darkened, When I shall
break there the yokes of Egypt, And the pomp of her strength shall cease
in her, As for her, a cloud shall cover her, And her daughters shall go into
captivity, Thus will I execute judgments in Egypt, And they shall know that I am
the Lord.
And it came to pass in the eleventh year, In the first month, in the seventh day of
the month, That the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Son of man, I have broken
the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt, And lo, it shall not be bound up to be
healed, To put a roller to bind it, To make it strong to hold the sword.
Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of
Egypt, And will break his arms, the strong, And that which was broken,
And I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand, And I will scatter the Egyptians
among the nations, And will disperse them through the countries, And I will
strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, And put my sword in his hand.
But I will break Pharaoh's arms, And he shall groan before him With the
groanings of a deadly wounded man.
But I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, And the arms of Pharaoh shall
fall down, And they shall know that I am the Lord, When I shall put my sword into
the hand of the king of Babylon, And he shall stretch it out upon the land
of Egypt, And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, And disperse them among
the countries, And they shall know that I am the Lord.