Chapter 30

Ægypt shall be so wasted, ℣.5 that Aethiopia, and other neighbours shall tremble; ℣.9 seeing the cities and country destroyed. ℣.20 All which is confirmed again by an other vision.

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   And the word of our Lord was made to me, saying: Thus saith our Lord God: Howl ye, woe,

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   Son of man prophesy, and say: woe to the day:

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   because the day is near, and the day of our Lord approacheth: the day of a cloud, the time of the Gentiles shall be.

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   And the sword shall come into Ægypt: & there shall be fear in Aethiopia, when the wounded shall fall in Ægypt, & the multitude thereof shall be taken away, and the foundations thereof be destroyed.

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   Aethiopia, and Libia, and the Lydians, and all the rest of the common people, and Chub, and the children of the land of covenant, shall fall with them by the sword.

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   Thus saith our Lord God: And they shall fall that underprop Ægypt, and the pride of the empire thereof shall be destroyed: from the tower of Siena shall they fall in it by the sword, saith our Lord the God of hosts.

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   And they shall be dissipated in the midst of desolate lands, and the cities thereof shall be in the midst of desert cities.

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   And they shall know that I am the Lord: when I shall have given fire in Ægypt, and all the aiders thereof shall be broken.

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   In that day shall messengers go forth from my face in galleys to terrify the confidence of Aethiopia, and there shall be fear among them in the day of Ægypt: because it shall come without doubt.

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    Thus saith our Lord God: I will make the multitude of Ægypt to cease in the hand of Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon.

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    He and his people with him the strongest of the Gentiles shall be brought to destroy the land: and they shall draw their swords upon Ægypt: and shall fill the land with the slain.

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    And I will make the channels of the rivers dry, and will deliver the land into the hands of the most wicked: and will dissipate the land and the fullness thereof in the hands of aliens, I, the Lord have spoken.

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    Thus saith our Lord God: And I will destroy the idols, and I will make the idols to cease out of Memphis: and duke of the land of Ægypt there shall be no more: and I will give terror in the land of Ægypt.

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    And I will destroy the land of Phathures, and will give fire in Taphnis, and will do judgements in Alexandria.

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    And I will pour out mine indignation upon Pelusium the strength of Ægypt, and will kill the multitude of Alexandria,

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    And will give fire in Ægypt: as a woman in travail shall Pelusium sorrow, and Alexandria shall be dissipated, and in Memphis daily distresses.

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    The young men of Heliopolis, and of Bubasti shall fall by the sword, and themselves shall be led captive.

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    And in Taphnis the day shall wax black, when I shall have broken there the sceptres of Ægypt, and the pride of the might thereof shall fail in it: the cloud shall cover her, & her daughters shall be led into captivity.

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    And I will do judgements in Ægypt: & 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 of the month, the word of our Lord was made to me, saying:

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    Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharao king of Ægypt: and behold it is not wound up, that health might be restored to it, that it might be bound with cloths, & swaddled with linen clouts, that recovering strength it might hold the sword.

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    Therefore thus saith our Lord God: Behold I to Pharao king of Ægypt, and I will break into pieces his strong arm, already broken: and I will cast down the sword out of his hand:

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    and will disperse Ægypt among the Gentiles, & will scatter them in the lands.

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    And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and will give my sword in his hand: and I will break the arms of Pharao, and the slain before his face shall groan with groanings.

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    And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharao shall fall, and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall give my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall have stretched it forth upon the Land of Ægypt:

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    And I will disperse Ægypt into nations, and will scatter them into lands, and they shall know that I am the Lord.