Desolation of Egypt

EZEKIEL,

and her helpers. 20 I have given him the land of is therein, by the hand of strangers: Egypt for his labour wherewith I the LORD have spoken it. he served against it, because they wrought for me, saith the Lord GOD.

21 1 In that day will I cause the hom of the house of Israel to bud forth, and I will give thee the opening of the mouth in the midst of them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

CHAP. XXX.

The Desolation of Egypt, &c.
HE word of the LORD came

Tagain unto me, saying,

2 Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Howl

Wo worth the day!

3 For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen.

4 And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great pain shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down. 5 Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the mingled people, and Chub, and the men of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword.

6 Thus saith the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall some down: from the tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord GOD.

7 And 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.

8 And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and when all her helpers shall be destroyed.

9 In that day shall messengers go forth from me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid, and great pain shall come upon them, as in the day of Egypt: for, lo, it cometh.

10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon.

11 He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought to destroy the land: and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.

12 And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all that

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13 Thus saith the Lord GOD: 1 will also destroy the idols, and I will cause their imeges to cease out of Noph; and there shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.

14 And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments in No.

15 And I will pour my fury upon Sin, the strength of Egypt; and I will cut off the multitude of No.

16 And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall have great pain, and No shall be rent asunder, and Noph shall have distresses daily.

17 The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword: and these cities shall go into cap tivity.

18 At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened, when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of her strength shall cease in her: as for her a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity.

19 Thus will I execute judg ments in Egypt: and they shall know that I am the LORD.

20 1 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, in the seventh day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unte me, saying,.

21 Son of man, I have brokes the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt and lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed, to put a roller to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword.

92 Therefore thus saith the Lord Gop Butold, I am against Ph raoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong, and the which was broken and I wil cause the sword to fall out of h hand.

23 And I will scatter the Egy tians among the nations, and w disperse them through the cour tries.

24 And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand: but! will break Pharaoh's arms, and he shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly-wounded man.

25 But I will strengthen the arm of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down: and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall put my sword

The Assyrian's greatness, CHAP. XXXII. and fall for pride. into the hand of the king of Baby- the nations, have cut him off, and lon, and he shall stretch it out upon have left him: upon the mountains the land of Egypt. and in all the valleys his branches 26 And I will scatter the Egyp-are, fallen, and his boughs are tians among the nations, and dis- broken by all the rivers of the land; perse them among the countries; and all the people of the earth are and they shall know that I am the gone down from his shadow, and LORD. have left him. CHAP. XXXI.

The Glory and Fall of Assyria.

AND it came to pass in the ele,

venth year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

13 Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be

upon his branches:

14 To the end that, none of all the trees by the waters, exalt themselves for their height, neither 2 Son of man, speak unto Pha-shoot up their top among the thick raoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness?

boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered 31 Behold, the Assyrian was a unto death, to the nether parts of cedar in Lebanon with fair the earth, in the midst of the chilbranches, and with a shadowing dren of men,, with them that go shroud, and of a high stature; down to the pit. and his top was among the thick boughs.

4 The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent out her little rivers unto all the trees of the field.

15 Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him and all the trees of the field fainted for him.

5 Therefore, his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, 16 I made the nations to shake at and his boughs were multiplied, the sound of his fall, when I cast and his branches became long be-him down to hell with them that cause of the multitude of waters, descend into the pit: and all the when he shot forth. trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth.

6 All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and 17 They also went down into under his shadow dwelt all great hell with him, unto them that be nations. slain with the sword; and they that 7 Thus was he fair in his great-were his arm, that dwelt under his ness, in the ength of his branches: shadow in the midst of the heafor his root was by great waters. then.

8 The cedars in the garden of 18 T To whom art thou thus like God could not hide him: the fir-in glory and in greatness among the trees were not like his boughs, and the chesnut-trees were not like his branches; not any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.

9 I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.

trees of Eden yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of tho earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord Gop.

CHAP. XXXII. 10 1 Therefore thus saith the The fearful Destruction of Egypt. Lord GoD; Because thou hast liftLa twelfth year, in twethin ed up thyself in height, and he hath AND it came to pass in the shot up his top among the thick month, in the first day of the boughs, and his heart is lifted up month, that the word of the LORD in his height; came unto me, saying,

11 I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness,

12 And strangers, the terrible of

2 Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas. and thou camest forth with thy

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EZEKIEL,

for the fearf

A lamentation rivers, and troubledst the waters) 16 This is the lamentation wherewith thy feet, and fouledst their with they shall lament her: the rivers. daughters of the nations shall la 3 Thus saith the Lord GoD; Iment her: they shall lament for her, will therefore spread out my net even for Egypt, and for all her mul over thee with a company of many titude, saith the Lord GOD. people; and they shall bring thee up in my net.

4 Then will I leave thee upon the land, I will cast thee forth upon the open field, and will cause all the fowls of the heaven to remain upon thee, and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with thee.

5 And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height.

6 I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest, even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of thee.

7 And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.

8 All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD.

9 I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not known.

10 Yea, I will make many people amazed at thee, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for thee, when I shall brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of thy fall.

17 It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

18 Son of man, wail for the mul titude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.

19 Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised.,

20 They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the sword: she is delivered to the sword: draw her and all her multitudes.

21 The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie uncir cumcised, slain by the sword.

22 Asshur is there and all her company his graves are about him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword:

23 Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the living.

24 There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down un circumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which caused their terror in the land of the living; yet have 11 For thus saith the Lord they borne their shame with them Gop; The sword of the king of that go down to the pit, Babylon shall come upon thee.

25 They have set her a bed in the 12 By the swords of the mighty midst of the slain with all her will I cause thy multitude to fall, multitude: her graves, are round the terrible of the nations, all of about him: all of them uncirthem and they shall spoil the cumcised, slain by the sword pomp of Egypt, and all the multi-though their terror was caused tude thereof shall be destroyed. in the land of the living, yet 13 I will destroy also all the have they borne their shame with beasts thereof from beside the great them that go down to the pit: he waters; neither shall the foot of is put in the midst of them that be man trouble them any more, nor sinin. the hoofs of beasts trouble them.

14 Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord God.

15 When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and the country shall be destitute of that whereof it was full, when I shall smite all them that dwell therein, then shall they know that I am the LORD.

26 There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude: her graves are round about him: ail of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though they caused their terror in the land of the living.

27 And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and they have laid their

CHAP. XXXIII. Duty of a watchman.

AGAIN the word of the LORD shall the righteous be able to live

for his righteousness in the day 2 Son of man, speak to the child-that he sinneth. ren of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword up on a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, an set him for their watchman:

Desolation of the land.

EZEKIEL,

mitteth iniquity, he shall even die thereby.

19 But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.

20 Yet yo say. The way of the LORD is not equal. O ye house of Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways.

211 And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, that one that had escaped out of Jerusalem came unto me saying, The city is smitten.

2 Now the hand of the LORD was upon me in the evening, afore

opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning and my mouth was opened, and I was no more dumb.

23 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

24 Son of man, they that inhabit those wastes of the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance.

25 Wherefore, say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GoD; Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood and shall ye possess the land?

26 Ye, stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one his neighbour's wife and shall ye possess the land?

27 Bay thou thus unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live, surely they that are in the wastes, snall fall by the sword, and him that is in the open field, will I give to the beasts to be devoured, and they that be in the forts and in the caves, shall die of the pestilence.

98 For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that none shall pass through.

29 Then shall they know that I am the LORD, when I have Inid the land most desolate because of all their abominations which they have committed.

30 Also, thou son of man, the children of thy people still are talking against thee by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another, every one to his brother, saying, Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that ometh forth from the LORD.

Bad shepherds reproved

31 And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew, much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.

32 And lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not.

33 And when this cometh to pass. (lo, it will come,) then shall they know that a prophet hath been among them.

CHAP. XXXIV.

Bad Shepherds of Israel reproved. An the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

2 Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Gon unto the shepherds; Wo be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks?

3 Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock.

4 The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye heal ed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.

5 And they were scattered, be cause there is no shepherd; and they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered.

6 My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scaltered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them.

7 Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD:

8 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flock;

9 Therefore, O ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;

10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease