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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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/ezekiel/29.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">A Message for Egypt</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/29-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>On January 7,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> during the tenth year of King Jehoiachin’s captivity, this message came to me from the LORD: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/29-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Son of man, turn and face Egypt and prophesy against Pharaoh the king and all the people of Egypt. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/29-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Give them this message from the Sovereign LORD:</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1">“I am your enemy, O Pharaoh, king of Egypt—</p><p class="line2">you great monster, lurking in the streams of the Nile.</p><p class="line1">For you have said, ‘The Nile River is mine;</p><p class="line2">I made it for myself.’</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/29-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>I will put hooks in your jaws</p><p class="line2">and drag you out on the land</p><p class="line2">with fish sticking to your scales.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/29-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>I will leave you and all your fish</p><p class="line2">stranded in the wilderness to die.</p><p class="line1">You will lie unburied on the open ground,</p><p class="line2">for I have given you as food to the wild animals and birds.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/29-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>All the people of Egypt will know that I am the LORD,</p><p class="line2">for to Israel you were just a staff made of reeds.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/29-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>When Israel leaned on you,</p><p class="line2">you splintered and broke</p><p class="line2">and stabbed her in the armpit.</p><p class="line1">When she put her weight on you,</p><p class="line2">you collapsed, and her legs gave way.</p><p class="b"/><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/29-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“Therefore, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will bring an army against you, O Egypt, and destroy both people and animals. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/29-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>The land of Egypt will become a desolate wasteland, and the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD.</p><p class="reg">“Because you said, ‘The Nile River is mine; I made it,’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/29-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>I am now the enemy of both you and your river. I will make the land of Egypt a totally desolate wasteland, from Migdol to Aswan, as far south as the border of Ethiopia.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/29-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For forty years not a soul will pass that way, neither people nor animals. It will be completely uninhabited. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/29-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>I will make Egypt desolate, and it will be surrounded by other desolate nations. Its cities will be empty and desolate for forty years, surrounded by other ruined cities. I will scatter the Egyptians to distant lands.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/29-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“But this is what the Sovereign LORD also says: At the end of the forty years I will bring the Egyptians home again from the nations to which they have been scattered. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/29-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>I will restore the prosperity of Egypt and bring its people back to the land of Pathros in southern Egypt from which they came. But Egypt will remain an unimportant, minor kingdom. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/29-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>It will be the lowliest of all the nations, never again great enough to rise above its neighbors.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/29-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“Then Israel will no longer be tempted to trust in Egypt for help. Egypt’s shattered condition will remind Israel of how sinful she was to trust Egypt in earlier days. Then Israel will know that I am the Sovereign LORD.”</p><p class="hdg">Nebuchadnezzar to Conquer Egypt</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/29-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>On April 26, the first day of the new year,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a> during the twenty-seventh year of King Jehoiachin’s captivity, this message came to me from the LORD: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/29-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>“Son of man, the army of King Nebuchadnezzar<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">d</span></a> of Babylon fought so hard against Tyre that the warriors’ heads were rubbed bare and their shoulders were raw and blistered. Yet Nebuchadnezzar and his army won no plunder to compensate them for all their work. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/29-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Therefore, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon. He will carry off its wealth, plundering everything it has so he can pay his army. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/29-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Yes, I have given him the land of Egypt as a reward for his work, says the Sovereign LORD, because he was working for me when he destroyed Tyre.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/29-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>“And the day will come when I will cause the ancient glory of Israel to revive,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">e</span></a> and then, Ezekiel, your words will be respected. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">29:1 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">On the twelfth day of the tenth month,</span><span class="ft"> of the ancient Hebrew lunar calendar. This event occurred on January 7, 587 </span><span class="sc">b.c.</span><span class="ft">; also see note on 1:1.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">29:10 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">from Migdol to Syene as far as the border of Cush.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">29:17 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">On the first day of the first month,</span><span class="ft"> of the ancient Hebrew lunar calendar. This event occurred on April 26, 571 </span><span class="sc">b.c.</span><span class="ft">; also see note on 1:1.</span><br><span class="fn">d</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">29:18 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">Nebuchadrezzar,</span><span class="ft"> a variant spelling of Nebuchadnezzar; also in 29:19.</span><br><span class="fn">e</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">29:21 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">I will cause a horn to sprout for the house of Israel.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of <a href="http://www.tyndale.com">Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.</a>, Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. 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