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The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying,
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Son of man , prophesy, and say , Thus says the Lord Yahweh : Wail , Alas for the day !
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For the day is near, even the day of Yahweh is near; it shall be a day of clouds , a time of the nations .
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A sword shall come on Egypt , and anguish 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.
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Ethiopia, and Put , and Lud , and all the mixed people, and Cub, and the children of the land that is allied with them, shall fall with them by the sword .
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Thus says Yahweh : They also who uphold Egypt shall fall ; and the pride of her power shall come down : from the tower of Seveneh shall they fall in it by the sword , says the Lord Yahweh .
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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.
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They shall know that I am Yahweh , when I have set a fire in Egypt , and all her helpers are destroyed.
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In that day shall messengers go forth from before me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid; and there shall be anguish on them, as in the day of Egypt ; for, behold, it comes .
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Thus says the Lord Yahweh : I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease, by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon .
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He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations , shall be brought in to destroy the land ; and they shall draw their swords against Egypt , and fill the land with the slain .
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I will make the rivers dry, and will sell the land into the hand of evil men; and I will make the land desolate, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I, Yahweh , have spoken it.
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Thus says the Lord Yahweh : I will also destroy the idols , and I will cause the images to cease from Memphis; and there shall be no more a prince from the land of Egypt : and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt .
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I will make Pathros desolate, and will set a fire in Zoan , and will execute judgments on No .
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I will pour my wrath on Sin, the stronghold of Egypt ; and I will cut off the multitude of No .
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I will set a fire in Egypt : Sin shall be in great anguish, and No shall be broken up; and Memphis [shall have] adversaries in the daytime.
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The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword ; and these [cities] shall go into captivity.
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At Tehaphnehes also the day shall withdraw itself, when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt , and the pride of her power shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity.
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Thus will I execute judgments on Egypt ; and they shall know that I am Yahweh .
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It happened in the eleventh year, in the first [month ], in the seventh [day] of the month , that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
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Son of man , I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt ; and behold, it has not been bound up, to apply [healing] medicines , to put a bandage to bind it, that it be strong to hold the sword .
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Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh : Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt , and will break his arms , the strong [arm ], and that which was broken ; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand .
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I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations , and will disperse them through the countries.
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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 shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded man.
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I will hold up the arms of the king of Babylon ; and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I am Yahweh , when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon , and he shall stretch it out on the land of Egypt .
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I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations , and disperse them through the countries; and they shall know that I am Yahweh .