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1 The word of the LORD came again to me, saying,
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God, the Master, spoke to me:
2 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Wail, Alas for the day!
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"Son of man, preach. Give them the Message of God, the Master. Wail:
3 For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near; it shall be a day of clouds, a time of the nations.
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"'Doomsday!' Time's up! God's big day of judgment is near. Thick clouds are rolling in. It's doomsday for the nations.
4 A sword shall come on Mitzrayim, and anguish shall be in Kush, when the slain shall fall in Mitzrayim; and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down.
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Death will rain down on Egypt. Terror will paralyze Ethiopia When they see the Egyptians killed, their wealth hauled off, their foundations demolished,
5 Kush, and Put, and Lud, and all the mixed people, and Kuv, and the children of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword.
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And Ethiopia, Put, Lud, Arabia, Libya - all of Egypt's old allies - killed right along with them.
6 Thus says the LORD: They also who uphold Mitzrayim shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from Migdol to Seven shall they fall in it by the sword, says the Lord GOD.
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"'God says: "'Egypt's allies will fall and her proud strength will collapse - From Migdol in the north to Syene in the south, a great slaughter in Egypt! Decree of God, the Master.
7 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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Egypt, most desolate of the desolate, her cities wasted beyond wasting,
8 They shall know at I am the LORD, when I have set a fire in Mitzrayim, and all her helpers are destroyed.
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Will realize that I am God when I burn her down and her helpers are knocked flat.
9 In that day shall messengers go forth from before me in ships to make the careless Kushim afraid; and there shall be anguish on them, as in the day of Mitzrayim; for, behold, it comes.
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"'When that happens, I'll send out messengers by ship to sound the alarm among the easygoing Ethiopians. They'll be terrorized. Egypt's doomed! Judgment's coming!
10 Thus says the Lord GOD: I will also make the multitude of Mitzrayim to cease, by the hand of Nevukhadretztzar king of Bavel.
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"'God, the Master, says: "'I'll put a stop to Egypt's arrogance. I'll use Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to do it.
11 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 Mitzrayim, and fill the land with the slain.
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He and his army, the most brutal of nations, shall be used to destroy the country. They'll brandish their swords and fill Egypt with corpses.
12 I will make the rivers dry, and will sell the land 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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I'll dry up the Nile and sell off the land to a bunch of crooks. I'll hire outsiders to come in and waste the country, strip it clean. I, God, have said so.
13 Thus says the Lord GOD: I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause the images to cease from Mof; and there shall be no more a prince from the land of Mitzrayim: and I will put a fear in the land of Mitzrayim.
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"'And now this is what God, the Master, says: "'I'll smash all the no-god idols; I'll topple all those huge statues in Memphis. The prince of Egypt will be gone for good, and in his place I'll put fear - fear throughout Egypt!
14 I will make Patros desolate, and will set a fire in Tzo`an, and will execute judgments on No.
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I'll demolish Pathros, burn Zoan to the ground, and punish Thebes,
15 I will pour my wrath on Sin, the stronghold of Mitzrayim; and I will cut off the multitude of No.
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Pour my wrath on Pelusium, Egypt's fort, and knock Thebes off its proud pedestal.
16 I will set a fire in Mitzrayim: Sin shall be in great anguish, and No shall be broken up; and Mof [shall have] adversaries in the day-time.
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I'll set Egypt on fire: Pelusium will writhe in pain, Thebes blown away, Memphis raped.
17 The young men of Aven and of Pi-Veset shall fall by the sword; and these [cities] shall go into captivity.
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The young warriors of On and Pi-beseth will be killed and the cities exiled.
18 At Techafneches also the day shall withdraw itself, when I shall break there the yokes of Mitzrayim, 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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A dark day for Tahpanhes when I shatter Egypt, When I break Egyptian power and put an end to her arrogant oppression! She'll disappear in a cloud of dust, her cities hauled off as exiles.
19 Thus will I execute judgments on Mitzrayim; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
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That's how I'll punish Egypt, and that's how she'll realize that I am God.'"
20 It happened in the eleventh year, in the first [month], in the seventh [day] of the month, that the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
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In the eleventh year, on the seventh day of the first month, God's Message came to me:
21 Son of man, I have broken the arm of Par`oh king of Mitzrayim; and, behold, it has not been bound up, to apply [healing] medicines, to put a bandage to bind it, that it be strong to hold the sword.
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"Son of man, I've broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And look! It hasn't been set. No splint has been put on it so the bones can knit and heal, so he can use a sword again.
22 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against Par`oh king of Mitzrayim, and will break his arms, the strong [arm], and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.
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"Therefore, God, the Master, says, I am dead set against Pharaoh king of Egypt and will go ahead and break his other arm - both arms broken! There's no way he'll ever swing a sword again.
23 I will scatter the Mitzrim among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.
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I'll scatter Egyptians all over the world.
24 I will strengthen the arms of the king of Bavel, and put my sword in his hand: but I will break the arms of Par`oh, and he shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded man.
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I'll make the arms of the king of Babylon strong and put my sword in his hand, but I'll break the arms of Pharaoh and he'll groan like one who is mortally wounded.
25 I will hold up the arms of the king of Bavel; and the arms of Par`oh 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 Bavel, and he shall stretch it out on the land of Mitzrayim.
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I'll make the arms of the king of Babylon strong, but the arms of Pharaoh shall go limp. The Egyptians will realize that I am God when I place my sword in the hand of the king of Babylon. He'll wield it against Egypt
26 I will scatter the Mitzrim among the nations, and disperse them through the countries; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
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and I'll scatter Egyptians all over the world. Then they'll realize that I am God."
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