Chapter 29

The King of Ægypt shall be overthrown: ℣.9 and the Kingdom wasted forty years: It shall be repaired to a mean state. ℣.17 And shall be given to the King of Babylon, for his service in destroying Tyre.

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   In the tenth year, the tenth month, the eleventh day of the month, the word of our Lord was made to me, saying:

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   Son of man, set thy face against Pharao the king of Ægypt: and thou shalt prophesy of him, & of all Ægypt.

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   Speak, and thou shalt say: Thus saith our Lord God: Behold I to thee Pharao king of Ægypt, thou great dragon, which liest in the midst of thy rivers, & sayest: The river is mine, & I made it my self.

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   And I will put a bridle in thy jaws: and I will fasten the fishes of thy rivers to thy scales: and I will draw thee out of the midst of the rivers, and all thy fishes shall stick to thy scales.

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   And I will cast thee forth into the desert, and all the fishes of thy river: thou shalt fall upon the face of the earth, thou shalt not be collected, nor gathered together: to the beasts of the earth, and to the fowls of the heaven have I given thee to be devoured.

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   And all the inhabitants of Ægypt shall know that I am the Lord: for that thou hast been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.

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   When they took thee with the hand, & thou wast broken, and didst rent all their shoulder: and they leaning upon thee, thou was broken, and didst dissolve all their reins.

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   Therefore thus saith our Lord God: Behold I will bring upon thee the sword: and will kill out of thee man, & beast.

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   And the Land of Ægypt shall be into a desert, and into a wilderness: & they shall know that I am the Lord: for that thou hast said: The river is mine, & I made it.

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    Therefore behold I to thee, and to thy rivers: and I will give the Land of Ægypt into desolations, destroyed with the sword, from the tower of Syene, even to the borders of Aethiopia.

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    The foot of men shall not pass through it, neither shall the foot of beast go in it: & it shall not be inhabited forty years.

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    And I will make the Land of Ægypt desert in the midst of desert lands, & the cities thereof in the midst of cities overthrown, and they shall be desolate forty years: & I will disperse the Ægyptians into nations, and will scatter them into the lands.

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    Because thus saith our Lord God: After the end of forty years I will gather Ægypt out of the peoples in which they had been dispersed.

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    And I will bring back the captivity of Ægypt, & will place them in the land of Phatures, in the land of their nativity, and they shall be there as a low kingdom:

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    among other kingdoms it shall be lowest, and it shall no more be elevated over the nations, and I will diminish them that they rule not over the Gentiles.

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    And they shall no more be to the house of Israel in confidence, teaching iniquity, that they may fly, and follow them: and they shall know that I am the Lord God.

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    And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the first, in the first of the month: the word of our Lord was made to me, saying:

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    Son of man, Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon hath made his army to serve with great service against Tyre: every head made bald, and every shoulder hath the hair plucked off: and there hath been no reward rendered him, nor his army concerning Tyre, for the service that he served me against it.

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    Therefore thus saith our Lord God: Behold I will give Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon in the land of Ægypt: & he shall take the multitude thereof, and take the booties thereof for a prey, and rifle the spoils thereof: & it shall be a reward for his army,

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    and for the work, that he served me against it: I have given him the land of Ægypt, for that they have laboured for me, saith our Lord God.

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    In that day there shall a horn spring to the house of Israel, & I will give thee an open mouth in the midst of them: and they shall know that I am the Lord.