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| The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, |
| Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of
one mother: |
| And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they
committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed,
and there they bruised the teats of their virginity. |
| And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and
Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and
daughters. Thus were their names; Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem
Aholibah. |
| And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and
she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours, |
| Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers,
all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses. |
| Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all
them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she
doted: with all their idols she defiled herself. |
| Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt:
for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her
virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her. |
| Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her
lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted. |
| These discovered her nakedness: they took her sons
and her daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she became famous
among women; for they had executed judgment upon her. |
| And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more
corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than
her sister in her whoredoms. |
| She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours,
captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon
horses, all of them desirable young men. |
| Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both
one way, |
| And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she
saw men portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed
with vermilion, |
| Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in
dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the
manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity: |
| And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted
upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea. |
| And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of
love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted
with them, and her mind was alienated from them. |
| So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her
nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was
alienated from her sister. |
| Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to
remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in
the land of Egypt. |
| For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is
as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses. |
| Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of
thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy
youth. |
| Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord GOD;
Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy mind is
alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side; |
| The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and
Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable
young men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them
riding upon horses. |
| And they shall come against thee with chariots,
wagons, and wheels, and with an assembly of people, which shall set
against thee buckler and shield and helmet round about: and I will set
judgment before them, and they shall judge thee according to their
judgments. |
| And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they
shall deal furiously with thee: they shall take away thy nose and thine
ears; and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons
and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire. |
| They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes, and
take away thy fair jewels. |
| Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee,
and thy whoredom brought from the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt not
lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more. |
| For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will deliver
thee into the hand of them whom thou hatest, into the hand of them from
whom thy mind is alienated: |
| And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall
take away all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the
nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and
thy whoredoms. |
| I will do these things unto thee, because thou hast
gone a whoring after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with
their idols. |
| Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore
will I give her cup into thine hand. |
| Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou shalt drink of thy
sister's cup deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in
derision; it containeth much. |
| Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow,
with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister
Samaria. |
| Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, and thou
shalt break the sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own breasts: for I
have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD. |
| Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast
forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy
lewdness and thy whoredoms. |
| The LORD said moreover unto me; Son of man, wilt
thou judge Aholah and Aholibah? yea, declare unto them their
abominations; |
| That they have committed adultery, and blood is in
their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have
also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through
the fire, to devour them. |
| Moreover this they have done unto me: they have
defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths. |
| For when they had slain their children to their
idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and,
lo, thus have they done in the midst of mine house. |
| And furthermore, that ye have sent for men to come
from far, unto whom a messenger was sent; and, lo, they came: for whom
thou didst wash thyself, paintedst thy eyes, and deckedst thyself with
ornaments, |
| And satest upon a stately bed, and a table prepared
before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil. |
| And a voice of a multitude being at ease was with
her: and with the men of the common sort were brought Sabeans from the
wilderness, which put bracelets upon their hands, and beautiful crowns
upon their heads. |
| Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries,
Will they now commit whoredoms with her, and she with them? |
| Yet they went in unto her, as they go in unto a
woman that playeth the harlot: so went they in unto Aholah and unto
Aholibah, the lewd women. |
| And the righteous men, they shall judge them after
the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed
blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands. |
| For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will bring up a
company upon them, and will give them to be removed and spoiled. |
| And the company shall stone them with stones, and
dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their
daughters, and burn up their houses with fire. |
| Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land,
that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness. |
| And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you,
and ye shall bear the sins of your idols: and ye shall know that I am
the Lord GOD. |
| Again in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the
tenth day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, |
| Son of man, write thee the name of the day, even of
this same day: the king of Babylon set himself against Jerusalem this
same day. |
| And utter a parable unto the rebellious house, and
say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Set on a pot, set it on, and
also pour water into it: |
| Gather the pieces thereof into it, even every good
piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones. |
| Take the choice of the flock, and burn also the
bones under it, and make it boil well, and let them seethe the bones of
it therein. |
| Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody
city, to the pot whose scum is therein, and whose scum is not gone out
of it! bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it. |
| For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it
upon the top of a rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it
with dust; |
| That it might cause fury to come up to take
vengeance; I have set her blood upon the top of a rock, that it should
not be covered. |
| Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody
city! I will even make the pile for fire great. |
| Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh,
and spice it well, and let the bones be burned. |
| Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the
brass of it may be hot, and may burn, and that the filthiness of it may
be molten in it, that the scum of it may be consumed. |
| She hath wearied herself with lies, and her great
scum went not forth out of her: her scum shall be in the fire. |
| In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged
thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy
filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee. |
| I the LORD have spoken it: it shall come to pass,
and I will do it; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will
I repent; according to thy ways, and according to thy doings, shall they
judge thee, saith the Lord GOD. |
| Also the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, |
| Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire
of thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep,
neither shall thy tears run down. |
| Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind
the tire of thine head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet,
and cover not thy lips, and eat not the bread of men. |
| So I spake unto the people in the morning: and at
even my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded. |
| And the people said unto me, Wilt thou not tell us
what these things are to us, that thou doest so? |
| Then I answered them, The word of the LORD came unto
me, saying, |
| Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord
GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your
strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and
your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword. |
| And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover
your lips, nor eat the bread of men. |
| And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your
shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine
away for your iniquities, and mourn one toward another. |
| Thus Ezekiel is unto you a sign: according to all
that he hath done shall ye do: and when this cometh, ye shall know that
I am the Lord GOD. |
| Also, thou son of man, shall it not be in the day
when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire
of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their minds, their sons and
their daughters, |
| That he that escapeth in that day shall come unto
thee, to cause thee to hear it with thine ears? |
| In that day shall thy mouth be opened to him which
is escaped, and thou shalt speak, and be no more dumb: and thou shalt be
a sign unto them; and they shall know that I am the LORD. |
| The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, |
| Son of man, set thy face against the Ammonites, and
prophesy against them; |
| And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of the
Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou saidst, Aha, against my
sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it
was desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into
captivity; |
| Behold, therefore I will deliver thee to the men of
the east for a possession, and they shall set their palaces in thee, and
make their dwellings in thee: they shall eat thy fruit, and they shall
drink thy milk. |
| And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the
Ammonites a couchingplace for flocks: and ye shall know that I am the
LORD. |
| For thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast
clapped thine hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart
with all thy despite against the land of Israel; |
| Behold, therefore I will stretch out mine hand upon
thee, and will deliver thee for a spoil to the heathen; and I will cut
thee off from the people, and I will cause thee to perish out of the
countries: I will destroy thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD. |
| Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Moab and Seir
do say, Behold, the house of Judah is like unto all the heathen; |
| Therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from
the cities, from his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of the
country, Bethjeshimoth, Baalmeon, and Kiriathaim, |
| Unto the men of the east with the Ammonites, and
will give them in possession, that the Ammonites may not be remembered
among the nations. |
| And I will execute judgments upon Moab; and they
shall know that I am the LORD. |
| Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Edom hath
dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly
offended, and revenged himself upon them; |
| Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also
stretch out mine hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it;
and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by
the sword. |
| And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of
my people Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger and
according to my fury; and they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord
GOD. |
| Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the Philistines
have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart,
to destroy it for the old hatred; |
| Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will
stretch out mine hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the
Cherethims, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast. |
| And I will execute great vengeance upon them with
furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall
lay my vengeance upon them. |
| And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the
first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, |
| Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said against
Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: she is
turned unto me: I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste: |
| Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am
against thee, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against
thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up. |
| And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break
down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like
the top of a rock. |
| It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the
midst of the sea: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD: and it shall
become a spoil to the nations. |
| And her daughters which are in the field shall be
slain by the sword; and they shall know that I am the LORD. |
| For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring
upon Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the
north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies,
and much people. |
| He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the
field: and he shall make a fort against thee, and cast a mount against
thee, and lift up the buckler against thee. |
| And he shall set engines of war against thy walls,
and with his axes he shall break down thy towers. |
| By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust
shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen,
and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy
gates, as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach. |
| With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all
thy streets: he shall slay thy people by the sword, and thy strong
garrisons shall go down to the ground. |
| And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make
a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and
destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy
timber and thy dust in the midst of the water. |
| And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease;
and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard. |
| And I will make thee like the top of a rock: thou
shalt be a place to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I
the LORD have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD. |
| Thus saith the Lord GOD to Tyrus; Shall not the
isles shake at the sound of thy fall, when the wounded cry, when the
slaughter is made in the midst of thee? |
| Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from
their thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their broidered
garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit
upon the ground, and shall tremble at every moment, and be astonished at
thee. |
| And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and
say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring
men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her
inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it! |
| Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall;
yea, the isles that are in the sea shall be troubled at thy departure. |
| For thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall make thee
a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall
bring up the deep upon thee, and great waters shall cover thee; |
| When I shall bring thee down with them that descend
into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low
parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to
the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land
of the living; |
| I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt be no
more: though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again,
saith the Lord GOD. |
| The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, |
| Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for
Tyrus; |
| And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the
entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles,
Thus saith the Lord GOD; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect
beauty. |
| Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy
builders have perfected thy beauty. |
| They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of
Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee. |
| Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; the
company of the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, brought out of
the isles of Chittim. |
| Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that
which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the
isles of Elishah was that which covered thee. |
| The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy
mariners: thy wise men, O Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots. |
| The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were
in thee thy calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were
in thee to occupy thy merchandise. |
| They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine
army, thy men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they
set forth thy comeliness. |
| The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls
round about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: they hanged their
shields upon thy walls round about; they have made thy beauty perfect. |
| Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude
of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in
thy fairs. |
| Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants:
they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market. |
| They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs
with horses and horsemen and mules. |
| The men of Dedan were thy merchants; many isles were
the merchandise of thine hand: they brought thee for a present horns of
ivory and ebony. |
| Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of
the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds,
purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate. |
| Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy
merchants: they traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and
honey, and oil, and balm. |
| Damascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the
wares of thy making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of
Helbon, and white wool. |
| Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy
fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market. |
| Dedan was thy merchant in precious clothes for
chariots. |
| Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied
with thee in lambs, and rams, and goats: in these were they thy
merchants. |
| The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were thy
merchants: they occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices, and with
all precious stones, and gold. |
| Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba,
Asshur, and Chilmad, were thy merchants. |
| These were thy merchants in all sorts of things, in
blue clothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound
with cords, and made of cedar, among thy merchandise. |
| The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy
market: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst
of the seas. |
| Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the
east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas. |
| Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy
mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy
merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in thee, and in all thy
company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the
seas in the day of thy ruin. |
| The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of
thy pilots. |
| And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all
the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall
stand upon the land; |
| And shall cause their voice to be heard against
thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads,
they shall wallow themselves in the ashes: |
| And they shall make themselves utterly bald for
thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with
bitterness of heart and bitter wailing. |
| And in their wailing they shall take up a
lamentation for thee, and lament over thee, saying, What city is like
Tyrus, like the destroyed in the midst of the sea? |
| When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou
filledst many people; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the
multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise. |
| In the time when thou shalt be broken by the seas in
the depths of the waters thy merchandise and all thy company in the
midst of thee shall fall. |
| All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished
at thee, and their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in
their countenance. |
| The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee;
thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt be any more. |
| The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, |
| Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith
the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am
a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art
a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God: |
| Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no
secret that they can hide from thee: |
| With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou
hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy
treasures: |
| By thy great wisdom and by thy traffic hast thou
increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy
riches: |
| Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast
set thine heart as the heart of God; |
| Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee,
the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against
the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness. |
| They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou
shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas. |
| Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am
God? but thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that
slayeth thee. |
| Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by
the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD. |
| Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, |
| Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of
Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the
sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. |
| Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every
precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond,
the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the
carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was
prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. |
| Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I
have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast
walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. |
| Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou
wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. |
| By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled
the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will
cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy
thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. |
| Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty,
thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast
thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold
thee. |
| Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude
of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffic; therefore will I
bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I
will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that
behold thee. |
| All they that know thee among the people shall be
astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any
more. |
| Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, |
| Son of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesy
against it, |
| And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am
against thee, O Zidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of thee: and
they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall have executed judgments
in her, and shall be sanctified in her. |
| For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into
her streets; and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by the
sword upon her on every side; and they shall know that I am the LORD. |
| And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the
house of Israel, nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about
them, that despised them; and they shall know that I am the Lord GOD. |
| Thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall have gathered
the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and
shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they
dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob. |
| And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build
houses, and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence, when
I have executed judgments upon all those that despise them round about
them; and they shall know that I am the LORD their God. |
| In the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the
twelfth day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, |
| Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of
Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against all Egypt: |
| Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I
am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in
the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I
have made it for myself. |
| But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause
the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee
up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall
stick unto thy scales. |
| And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness,
thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open
fields; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: I have given
thee for meat to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven. |
| And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I
am the LORD, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of
Israel. |
| When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst
break, and rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou
brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand. |
| Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will
bring a sword upon thee, and cut off man and beast out of thee. |
| And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste;
and they shall know that I am the LORD: because he hath said, The river
is mine, and I have made it. |
| Behold, therefore I am against thee, and against thy
rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate,
from the tower of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia. |
| No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of
beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years. |
| And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the
midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the
cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will
scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through
the countries. |
| Yet thus saith the Lord GOD; At the end of forty
years will I gather the Egyptians from the people whither they were
scattered: |
| And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and
will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of
their habitation; and they shall be there a base kingdom. |
| It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither
shall it exalt itself any more above the nations: for I will diminish
them, that they shall no more rule over the nations. |
| And it shall be no more the confidence of the house
of Israel, which bringeth their iniquity to remembrance, when they shall
look after them: but they shall know that I am the Lord GOD. |
| And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year,
in the first month, in the first day of the month, the word of the LORD
came unto me, saying, |
| Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused
his army to serve a great service against Tyrus: every head was made
bald, and every shoulder was peeled: yet had he no wages, nor his army,
for Tyrus, for the service that he had served against it: |
| Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will
give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall
take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall
be the wages for his army. |
| I have given him the land of Egypt for his labour
wherewith he served against it, because they wrought for me, saith the
Lord GOD. |
| In that day will I cause the horn of the house of
Israel to bud forth, and I will give thee the opening of the mouth in
the midst of them; and they shall know that I am the LORD. |
| The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, |
| Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord
GOD; Howl 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 Chub, 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 Noph; 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 will set fire
in Zoan, and will execute judgments in No. |
| And I will pour my fury upon Sin, the strength of
Egypt; and I will cut off the multitude of No. |
| And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall have great
pain, and No shall be rent asunder, and Noph shall have distresses
daily. |
| The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by
the sword: and these cities shall go into captivity. |
| At Tehaphnehes 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. |
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