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Tell him and his people </span><span class="v26_29_3"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.29.3" class="v26_29_3">3</span>that I am saying:</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v26_29_3">King of Egypt, you were like a giant crocodile lying in a river. You acted as though you owned the Nile and made it for yourself. But now I, the <span class="nd">Lord</span> God, am your enemy! </span><span class="v26_29_4"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.29.4" class="v26_29_4">4</span>I will put a hook in your jaw and pull you out of the water, and all the fish in your river will stick to your scaly body.<a href="#fn" id="link_Ezek.29.4!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span><span class="v26_29_5"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.29.5" class="v26_29_5">5</span>I'll throw you and the fish into the desert, and your body will fall on the hard ground. You will be left unburied,<a href="#fn" id="link_Ezek.29.5!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> and wild animals and birds will eat your flesh. </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 everyone in Egypt will know that I am the <span class="nd">Lord</span>.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v26_29_6">You and your nation refused to help the people of Israel and were nothing more than a broken stick. </span><span class="v26_29_7"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.29.7" class="v26_29_7">7</span>When they reached out to you for support, you broke in half, cutting their arms and making them fall.<a href="#fn" id="link_Ezek.29.7!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v26_29_8"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.29.8" class="v26_29_8">8</span>So I, the <span class="nd">Lord</span> God, will send troops to attack you, king of Egypt. They will kill your people and livestock, </span><span class="v26_29_9"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.29.9" class="v26_29_9">9</span>until your land is a barren desert. Then you will know that I have done these things.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v26_29_9">You claimed that you made the Nile River and control it. </span><span class="v26_29_10"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.29.10" class="v26_29_10">10</span>Now I am turning against you and your river. Your nation will be nothing but an empty wasteland all the way from the town of Migdol in the north to Aswan in the south, and as far as the border of Ethiopia.<a href="#fn" id="link_Ezek.29.10!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span><span class="v26_29_11"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.29.11" class="v26_29_11">11</span>No human or animal will even dare travel through Egypt, because no sign of life will be found there for 40 years. </span><span class="v26_29_12"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.29.12" class="v26_29_12">12</span>It will be the most barren place on earth. Every city in Egypt will lie in ruins during those 40 years, and I will scatter your people throughout the nations of the world.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v26_29_13"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.29.13" class="v26_29_13">13</span>Then after those 40 years have passed, I will bring your people back from the places where I scattered them. </span><span class="v26_29_14"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.29.14" class="v26_29_14">14</span>They will once again live in their homeland in southern Egypt. But 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>and won't ever be strong enough to rule nations, as they did in the past. </span><span class="v26_29_16"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.29.16" class="v26_29_16">16</span>My own people Israel will never again depend on your nation. In fact, when the Israelites remember what happened to you Egyptians, they will realize how wrong they were to turn to you for help. Then the Israelites will know that I, the <span class="nd">Lord</span> God, did these things.</span></p><h3 class="s1">King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia 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>Twenty-seven years after King Jehoiachin and the rest of us had been led away as prisoners to Babylonia, the <span class="nd">Lord</span> spoke to me on the first day of the first month.<a href="#fn" id="link_Ezek.29.17!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> He said:</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v26_29_18"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.29.18" class="v26_29_18">18</span>King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia has attacked the city of Tyre. He forced his soldiers to carry so many heavy loads that their heads were rubbed bald, and their shoulders were red and sore. Nebuchadnezzar and his army still could not capture the city. </span><span class="v26_29_19"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.29.19" class="v26_29_19">19</span>So now I will hand over the nation of Egypt to him. He will take Egypt's valuable treasures and give them to his own troops. </span><span class="v26_29_20"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.29.20" class="v26_29_20">20</span>Egypt will be his reward, because he and his army have been following my orders. I, the <span class="nd">Lord</span> God, have spoken.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v26_29_21"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.29.21" class="v26_29_21">21</span>Ezekiel, when Egypt is defeated, I will make the people of Israel strong, and I will give you the power to speak to them. Then they will know that I, the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, have done these things.</span></p> <a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">29.1 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Ten years … tenth month: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Probably January of 587 <char style="sc">b.c.</char></char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">29.4 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">all the fish in your river will stick to your scaly body: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">All the king's officials will be removed from power and destroyed along with the king himself.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">29.5 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">You will be left unburied: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">A proper burial in a royal tomb was extremely important to Egyptian kings, because they often thought of themselves as gods.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">29.7 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">making them fall: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">29.10 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Ethiopia: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">The Hebrew text has “Cush,” which was a region south of Egypt that included parts of the present countries of Ethiopia and Sudan.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">29.17 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Twenty-seven … first month: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Probably March of 571 <char style="sc">b.c.</char></char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Contemporary English Version, Second Edition (CEV®)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 2006 American Bible Society. 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