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- And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying:
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- "Son of man, prophesy, and say: Thus saith the Lord GOD: wail ye: Woe worth the day!
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- For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a day of clouds, it shall be the time of the nations.
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- And a sword shall come upon Egypt, and convulsion shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt;
and they shall take away her abundance, and her foundation shall be broken down.
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- Ethiopia, and Put, and Lud, and all the mingled people, and Cub, and the children of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword.
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- Thus saith the LORD: they also that uphold Egypt shall fall, and the pride of her power shall come down;
from Migdol to Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord GOD.
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- 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.
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- And they shall know that I am the LORD, 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 confident Ethiopians afraid;
and there shall come convulsion upon them in the day of Egypt;
for, lo, it cometh.
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- Thus saith the Lord GOD: I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease, by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar 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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- And I will make the rivers dry, and will give the land over into the hand of evil men;
and I will make the land desolate, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers;
I the LORD have spoken it.
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- Thus saith the Lord GOD: I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause the things of nought to cease from Noph;
and there shall be no more a prince out of the land of Egypt;
and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.
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- And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set a fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments in No.
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- And I will pour My fury upon Sin, the stronghold of Egypt;
and I will cut off the multitude of No.
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- And I will set a fire in Egypt;
Sin shall be in great convulsion, and No shall be rent asunder;
and in Noph shall come adversaries in the day-time.
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- The young men of Aven and of Pi-beseth 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 in Egypt;
and they shall know that I am the LORD."
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- 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:
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- "Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt;
and, lo, it hath not been bound up to be healed, to put a roller, that it be bound up and wax strong, that it hold the sword.
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- 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.
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- And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.
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- And 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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- And 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 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.
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- And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them through the countries;
and they shall know that I am the LORD."
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