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Egypt and Her Allies Will Fall

¹The word of the Lord came to me again, saying, ²“Son of man, prophesy and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God:
⚓“Wail, ‘Woe to the day!’
³For ⚓the day is near,
Even the day of the Lordis near;
It will be a day of clouds, the time of the Gentiles.
⁴The sword shall come upon Egypt,
And great anguish shall be in Ethiopia,
When the slain fall in Egypt,
And they ⚓take away her wealth,
And ⚓her foundations are broken down.
⁵“Ethiopia, Libya, Lydia, ⚓all the mingled people, Chub, and the men of the lands who are allied, shall fall with them by the sword.”
⁶‘Thus says the Lord:
“Those who uphold Egypt shall fall,
And the pride of her power shall come down.
⚓From Migdol to Syene
Those within her shall fall by the sword,”
Says the Lord God.
⁷“They⚓ shall be desolate in the midst of the desolate countries,
And her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are laid waste.
⁸Then they will know that I am the Lord,
When I have set a fire in Egypt
And all her helpers are destroyed.
⁹On that day ⚓messengers shall go forth from Me in ships
To make the careless Ethiopians afraid,
And great anguish shall come upon them,
As on the day of Egypt;
For indeed it is coming!”
¹⁰‘Thus says the Lord God:
⚓“I will also make a multitude of Egypt to cease
By the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.
¹¹He and his people with him, ⚓the most terrible of the nations,
Shall be brought to destroy the land;
They shall draw their swords against Egypt,
And fill the land with the slain.
¹²⚓I will make the rivers dry,
And ⚓sell the land into the hand of the wicked;
I will make the land waste, and all that is in it,
By the hand of aliens.
I, the Lord, have spoken.”
¹³‘Thus says the Lord God:
“I will also ⚓destroy the idols,
And cause the images to cease from Noph;
⚓There shall no longer be princes from the land of Egypt;
⚓I will put fear in the land of Egypt.
¹⁴I will make ⚓Pathros desolate,
Set fire to ⚓Zoan,
⚓And execute judgments in No.
¹⁵I will pour My fury on Sin, the strength of Egypt;
⚓I will cut off the multitude of No,
¹⁶And ⚓set a fire in Egypt;
Sin shall have great pain,
No shall be split open,
And Noph shall be in distress daily.
¹⁷The young men of Aven and Pi Beseth shall fall by the sword,
And these cities shall go into captivity.
¹⁸⚓At Tehaphnehes the day shall also be darkened,
When I break the yokes of Egypt there.
And her arrogant strength shall cease in her;
As for her, a cloud shall cover her,
And her daughters shall go into captivity.
¹⁹Thus I will ⚓execute judgments on Egypt,
Then they shall know that I am the Lord.” ’ ”

Proclamation Against Pharaoh

²⁰And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ²¹“Son of man, I have ⚓broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and see, ⚓it has not been bandaged for healing, nor a splint put on to bind it, to make it strong enough to hold a sword. ²²Therefore thus says the Lord God: ‘Surely I am⚓against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will ⚓break his arms, both the strong one and the one that was broken; and I will make the sword fall out of his hand. ²³⚓I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them throughout the countries. ²⁴I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon and put My sword in his hand; but I will break Pharaoh’s arms, and he will groan before him with the groanings of a mortally wounded man. ²⁵Thus I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, but the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; ⚓they shall 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. ²⁶⚓I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them throughout the countries. Then they shall know that I am the Lord.’ ”

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耶和華懲罰埃及

¹耶和華的話臨到我，說： ²「人子啊，你要說預言；你要說，主耶和華如此說：
哀哉這日！你們應當哭號，
³因為日子近了，
耶和華的日子臨近了；
那是密雲之日，
是列國受罰⚓之期。
⁴必有刀劍臨到埃及；
被殺的人仆倒在埃及時，
古實人顫驚不已。
埃及的財富遭擄掠，
根基被拆毀。
⁵古實人、弗人、路德人、混居的各族和古伯人，以及盟國的人都要與埃及人一同倒在刀下。
⁶「耶和華如此說：
扶助埃及的必傾倒，
埃及驕傲的權勢必降為卑，
從密奪到色弗尼，人必倒在刀下。
這是主耶和華說的。
⁷埃及成為荒涼中最荒涼的國，
它的城鎮變為荒廢中最荒廢的城鎮。
⁸我在埃及放火，
幫助埃及的，都遭滅絕；
那時，他們就知道我是耶和華。
⁹「到那日，必有使者從我面前乘船出去，使安逸無慮的古實人驚懼；當埃及遭難的日子，痛苦也必臨到他們。看哪，這事臨近了！
¹⁰「主耶和華如此說：
我要藉巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒的手
除滅埃及的軍隊。
¹¹他和隨從他的人，
就是列國中兇暴的人，
要前來毀滅這地，
拔刀攻擊埃及，
使遍地佈滿被殺的人。
¹²我要使江河乾涸，
將這地賣在惡人手中；
我要藉外國人的手，
使這地和其中所充滿的變為荒蕪；
這是我－耶和華說的。

¹³「主耶和華如此說：
我要毀滅偶像，
從挪弗⚓除掉神像；
不再有君王出自埃及地，
我要使埃及地的人懼怕。
¹⁴我必令巴特羅荒涼，
在瑣安放火，
向挪⚓施行審判。
¹⁵我要將我的憤怒傾倒在訓，
埃及的堡壘上，
要剪除挪的眾民。
¹⁶我必在埃及放火，
訓必大大痛苦，
挪被攻破，
挪弗終日遭敵侵襲。
¹⁷亞文和比‧伯實的年輕人必倒在刀下，
這些城鎮將被擄掠。
¹⁸我在答比匿折斷埃及的軛⚓，
使它驕傲的權勢止息。
那時，日光必退去；
至於這城，必有密雲遮蔽，
鄰近的城鎮⚓也遭擄掠。
¹⁹我要如此向埃及施行審判，
他們就知道我是耶和華。」

埃及王的崩潰

²⁰第十一年正月初七，耶和華的話臨到我，說： ²¹「人子啊，我已折斷埃及王法老的一隻膀臂；看哪，無人為他敷藥，也無人為他包紮繃帶，使他有力持刀。 ²²因此，主耶和華如此說：看哪，我與埃及王法老為敵，要折斷他的膀臂，折斷強壯的和已受傷的，使刀從他手中掉落。 ²³我必將埃及人分散到列國，四散在列邦。 ²⁴我要使巴比倫王的膀臂有力，把我的刀交在他手中；卻要折斷法老的膀臂，使他在巴比倫王面前呻吟，如同被殺的人一樣。 ²⁵我要使巴比倫王的膀臂強壯，法老的膀臂卻要下垂；當我把我的刀交在巴比倫王手中時，他要舉刀攻擊埃及地，他們就知道我是耶和華。 ²⁶我必將埃及人分散到列國，四散在列邦；他們就知道我是耶和華。」