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New Testament
Ezekiel 30
Egypt Will Fall
301The word of the Lord came to me. 2Son of man, prophesy and say, “This is what the Lord God says.”
All of you, wail! What a miserable day! 3Yes, that day is near. The Day of the Lord is near. It will be a day of clouds, a time for the nations. 4A sword will enter Egypt, and there will be anguish in Cush[] when the slain fall in Egypt. Then they will take away its wealth, and its foundations will be demolished. 5Cush, Put,[] Lud,[] all the other mercenaries,[] and Libya[] will fall by the sword, and the men from the land of the covenant[] along with them.
6This is what the Lord says. Those who prop up Egypt will fall, and its proud power will sink down. From Migdol to Aswan those in Egypt will fall by the sword, declares the Lord God. 7It will be the most desolate among the desolate lands, and its cities will be the most ruined among the ruined cities. 8They will know that I am the Lord when I set fire to Egypt, and all its helpers are crushed. 9On that day, messengers will go out from me in ships to terrify confident Cush, and there will be panic among them on the day for Egypt, for it is surely coming.
10This is what the Lord God says. I will put an end to the horde of Egypt by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. 11He and his army with him, the most ruthless of nations, will be brought in to destroy the land. They will unsheathe their swords against Egypt and fill the land with the fallen. 12I will dry up the channels of the Nile and sell the land to evil men. I will devastate the land and everything in it by the hand of foreigners. I, the Lord, have spoken.
13This is what the Lord God says. I will destroy the filthy idols[] and eliminate from Memphis the gods that are not gods. There will no longer be a ruler in the land of Egypt, and I will put fear into the land of Egypt. 14I will desolate Upper Egypt.[] I will set fire to Zoan and inflict punishments on Thebes.[] 15I will pour out my wrath on Pelusium, the stronghold of Egypt, and I will cut off the horde of Thebes. 16I will set fire to Egypt. Pelusium will writhe in pain. The defenses of Thebes will be broken down, and Memphis will face enemies every day. 17The young men of Heliopolis and Bubastis will fall by the sword, and the women[] will go into captivity. 18At Tahpanhes the day will grow dark when I break the yokes[] of Egypt there, and there its proud power will cease. A cloud will cover it, and its daughters will go into captivity. 19I will inflict judgment on Egypt. Then they will know that I am the Lord.
Pharaoh's Arm Will Be Broken
20In the eleventh year,[] in the first month, on the seventh day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me.
21Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. But it has not been wrapped up so that it can heal. It has not been wrapped tightly with a splint to help it heal, so that it can become strong enough to grasp a sword.
22Therefore, this is what the Lord God says. I am against Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and I will break his arms, both the strong one and the one that was broken, and in this way I will cause the sword to fall from his hand. 23I will scatter Egypt among the nations and disperse them among the countries. 24I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon and put my sword into his hand. But I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan in the presence of the king of Babylon with groans like someone who is mortally wounded. 25I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, but the arms of Pharaoh will hang limp. They will know that I am the Lord when I put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he stretches it out against the land of Egypt. 26I will scatter Egypt among the nations and disperse them among the countries. Then they will know that I am the Lord.
Footnotes
- 30:4 Cush, later called Nubia, is the territory south of Egypt. Today it is called Sudan.
- 30:5 Perhaps a region in Libya
- 30:5 Or Lydia
- 30:5 Or all the Arabs
- 30:5 The Greek text reads Libyans, perhaps reflecting an underlying Hebrew reading Lub. The Hebrew text reads Kub, a completely unknown name.
- 30:5 Apparently Israelites living in Egypt
- 30:13 Or the manure gods. See the note at 6:4.
- 30:14 Southern Egypt is called Upper Egypt because it is upstream on the Nile.
- 30:14 Hebrew No. The English names of Egyptian cities are traditionally based on the Greek forms of the names, which are quite different from the Hebrew forms. The translation will not footnote all of these instances.
- 30:17 Or the cities
- 30:18 Or scepters
- 30:20 In 587 BC, during the siege of Jerusalem