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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Ezekiel 29 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/ezekiel/29.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/ezekiel/29-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</a> > Ezekiel 29</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../ezekiel/28.htm" title="Ezekiel 28">◄</a> Ezekiel 29 <a href="../ezekiel/30.htm" title="Ezekiel 30">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">Prophecy against Egypt</h3><p class="par"><span class="v26_29_1"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.29.1" class="v26_29_1">1</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Ezek.29.1!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> On the twelfth day of the tenth month of the tenth year of our exile, the <span class="nd">Lord</span> spoke to me. </span><span class="v26_29_2"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.29.2" class="v26_29_2">2</span>“Mortal man,” he said, “denounce the king of Egypt. Tell him how he and all the land of Egypt will be punished. </span><span class="v26_29_3"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.29.3" class="v26_29_3">3</span>Say that this is what the Sovereign <span class="nd">Lord</span> is telling the king of Egypt: I am your enemy, you monster crocodile, lying in the river. You say that the Nile is yours and that you made it.<a href="#fn" id="link_Ezek.29.3!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span><span class="v26_29_4"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.29.4" class="v26_29_4">4</span>I am going to put a hook through your jaw and make the fish in your river stick fast to you. Then I will pull you up out of the Nile, with all the fish sticking to you. </span><span class="v26_29_5"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.29.5" class="v26_29_5">5</span>I will throw you and all those fish into the desert. Your body will fall on the ground and be left unburied. I will give it to the birds and animals for food. </span><span class="v26_29_6"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.29.6" class="v26_29_6">6</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Ezek.29.6!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Then all the people of Egypt will know that I am the <span class="nd">Lord</span>.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v26_29_6">The <span class="nd">Lord</span> says, “The Israelites relied on you Egyptians for support, but you were no better than a weak stick. </span><span class="v26_29_7"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.29.7" class="v26_29_7">7</span>When they leaned on you, you broke, pierced their armpits, and made them wrench their backs.<a href="#fn" id="link_Ezek.29.7!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span><span class="v26_29_8"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.29.8" class="v26_29_8">8</span>Now then, I, the Sovereign <span class="nd">Lord</span>, am telling you that I will have troops attack you with swords, and they will kill your people and your animals. </span><span class="v26_29_9"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.29.9" class="v26_29_9">9</span>Egypt will become an empty wasteland. Then you will know that I am the <span class="nd">Lord</span>.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v26_29_9">“Because you said that the Nile is yours and you made it, </span><span class="v26_29_10"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.29.10" class="v26_29_10">10</span>I am your enemy and the enemy of your Nile. I will make all of Egypt an empty wasteland, from the city of Migdol in the north to the city of Aswan in the south, all the way to the Ethiopian<a href="#fn" id="link_Ezek.29.10!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> border. </span><span class="v26_29_11"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.29.11" class="v26_29_11">11</span>No human being or animal will walk through it. For forty years nothing will live there. </span><span class="v26_29_12"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.29.12" class="v26_29_12">12</span>I will make Egypt the most desolate country in the world. For forty years the cities of Egypt will lie in ruins, ruins worse than those of any other city. I will make the Egyptians refugees. They will flee to every country and live among other peoples.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v26_29_13"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.29.13" class="v26_29_13">13</span>The Sovereign <span class="nd">Lord</span> says, “After forty years I will bring the Egyptians back from the nations where I have scattered them, </span><span class="v26_29_14"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.29.14" class="v26_29_14">14</span>and I will let them live in southern Egypt, their original home. There they will be a weak kingdom, </span><span class="v26_29_15"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.29.15" class="v26_29_15">15</span>the weakest kingdom of all, and they will never again rule other nations. I will make them so unimportant that they will not be able to bend any other nation to their will. </span><span class="v26_29_16"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.29.16" class="v26_29_16">16</span>Israel will never again depend on them for help. Egypt's fate will remind Israel how wrong it was to rely on them. Then Israel will know that I am the Sovereign <span class="nd">Lord</span>.”</span></p><h3 class="s">King Nebuchadnezzar Will Conquer Egypt</h3><p class="par"><span class="v26_29_17"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.29.17" class="v26_29_17">17</span>On the first day of the first month of the twenty-seventh year of our exile, the <span class="nd">Lord</span> spoke to me. </span><span class="v26_29_18"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.29.18" class="v26_29_18">18</span>“Mortal man,” he said, “King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia launched an attack on Tyre. He made his soldiers carry such heavy loads that their heads were rubbed bald and their shoulders were worn raw, but neither the king nor his army got anything for all their trouble. </span><span class="v26_29_19"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.29.19" class="v26_29_19">19</span>So now this is what I, the Sovereign <span class="nd">Lord</span>, am saying: I am giving the land of Egypt to King Nebuchadnezzar. He will loot and plunder it and carry off all the wealth of Egypt as his army's pay. </span><span class="v26_29_20"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.29.20" class="v26_29_20">20</span>I am giving him Egypt in payment for his services, because his army was working for me. I, the Sovereign <span class="nd">Lord</span>, have spoken.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v26_29_21"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.29.21" class="v26_29_21">21</span>“When that happens, I will make the people of Israel strong and let you, Ezekiel, speak out where everyone can hear you, so that they will know that I am the <span class="nd">Lord</span>.”</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">29.3: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Some ancient translations </char><char style="fq" closed="false">you made it; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew </char><char style="fq" closed="false">you made yourself.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">29.7: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One ancient translation </char><char style="fq" closed="false">wrench their backs; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew </char><char style="fq" closed="false">make their backs stand.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">29.10: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Cushite (Cush): </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Cush is the ancient name of the extensive territory south of the First Cataract of the Nile River. This region was called Ethiopia in Graeco-Roman times, and included within its borders most of modern Sudan and some of present-day Ethiopia (Abyssinia).</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. All rights reserved.</span></p> <p class="yiv9003199930MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Bible text from the Good News Translation (GNT) is not to be reproduced in copies or otherwise by any means except as permitted in writing by American Bible Society, 101 North Independence Mall East, Floor 8, Philadelphia, PA 19106-2155 (<a href="http://www.americanbible.org">www.americanbible.org</a>). Learn more at <a href="http://www.gnt.bible">www.gnt.bible</a> . 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