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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 30 CEV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><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/30.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/30-1.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="../">CEV</a> > Ezekiel 30</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/29.htm" title="Ezekiel 29">◄</a> Ezekiel 30 <a href="../ezekiel/31.htm" title="Ezekiel 31">►</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">Contemporary English Version</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s1">Egypt Will Be a Barren Desert</h3><p class="par"><span class="v26_30_1"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.30.1" class="v26_30_1">1</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> said:</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v26_30_2"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.30.2" class="v26_30_2">2</span>Ezekiel, son of man, tell the people of Egypt that I am saying:</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v26_30_2">Cry out in despair,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v26_30_3"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.30.3" class="v26_30_3">3</span>because you will soon</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v26_30_3">be punished!</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v26_30_3">That will be a time</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v26_30_3">of darkness and doom</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v26_30_3">for all nations.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v26_30_4"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.30.4" class="v26_30_4">4</span>Your own nation of Egypt</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v26_30_4">will be attacked,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v26_30_4">and Ethiopia<a href="#fn" id="link_Ezek.30.4!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> will suffer.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v26_30_4">You will be killed in battle,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v26_30_4">and your land will be robbed</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v26_30_4">and left in ruins.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="par"><span class="v26_30_5"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.30.5" class="v26_30_5">5</span>Soldiers hired from Ethiopia, Libya, Lydia, Arabia, Kub, as well as from Israel,<a href="#fn" id="link_Ezek.30.5!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> will die in that battle. </span><span class="v26_30_6"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.30.6" class="v26_30_6">6</span>All of your allies will be killed, and your proud strength will crumble. People will die from Migdol in the north to Aswan in the south. I, the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, have spoken.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v26_30_7"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.30.7" class="v26_30_7">7</span>Your nation of Egypt will be the most deserted place on earth, and its cities will lie in complete ruin. </span><span class="v26_30_8"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.30.8" class="v26_30_8">8</span>I will set fire to your land, and anyone who defended your nation will die. Then you will know that I am the <span class="nd">Lord</span>.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v26_30_9"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.30.9" class="v26_30_9">9</span>On the same day I destroy Egypt, I will send messengers to the Ethiopians to announce their coming destruction. They think they are safe, but they will be terrified.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v26_30_10"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.30.10" class="v26_30_10">10</span>Your Egyptian army is very strong, but I will send King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia to completely defeat that army. </span><span class="v26_30_11"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.30.11" class="v26_30_11">11</span>He and his cruel troops will invade and destroy your land and leave your dead bodies piled everywhere.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v26_30_12"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.30.12" class="v26_30_12">12</span>I will dry up the Nile River, then sell the land to evil buyers. I will send foreigners to turn your entire nation into a barren desert. I, the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, have spoken.</span></p><h3 class="s1">Egypt's Proud Cities Will Lie in Ruins</h3><h5 class="sp">The <span class="nd">Lord</span> said to the people of Egypt:</h5><p class="par"><span class="v26_30_13"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.30.13" class="v26_30_13">13</span>All the idols and images you Egyptians worship in the city of Memphis<a href="#fn" id="link_Ezek.30.13!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> will be smashed. No one will be left to rule your nation, and terror will fill the land. </span><span class="v26_30_14"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.30.14" class="v26_30_14">14</span>The city of Pathros will be left in ruins, and Zoan will be burned to the ground. Thebes,<a href="#fn" id="link_Ezek.30.14!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> your capital city, will also be destroyed! </span><span class="v26_30_15"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.30.15" class="v26_30_15">15</span>The fortress city of Pelusium will feel my fierce anger, and all the troops stationed at Thebes will be slaughtered.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v26_30_16"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.30.16" class="v26_30_16">16</span>I will set fire to your nation of Egypt! The city of Pelusium will be in anguish. Thebes will fall, and the people of Memphis will live in constant fear.<a href="#fn" id="link_Ezek.30.16!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span><span class="v26_30_17"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.30.17" class="v26_30_17">17</span>The young soldiers in the cities of Heliopolis and Bubastis<a href="#fn" id="link_Ezek.30.17!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> will die in battle, and the rest of the people will be taken prisoner. </span><span class="v26_30_18"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.30.18" class="v26_30_18">18</span>You were so proud of your nation's power, but when I crush that power and kill that pride, darkness will fall over the city of Tahpanhes. A dark, gloomy cloud will cover the land as you are being led away into captivity. </span><span class="v26_30_19"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.30.19" class="v26_30_19">19</span>When I'm through punishing Egypt, you will know that I am the <span class="nd">Lord</span>.</span></p><h3 class="s1">Egypt's King Is Powerless</h3><p class="par"><span class="v26_30_20"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.30.20" class="v26_30_20">20</span>Eleven 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 seventh day of the first month.<a href="#fn" id="link_Ezek.30.20!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> He said:</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v26_30_21"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.30.21" class="v26_30_21">21</span>Ezekiel, son of man, I, the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, have defeated the king of Egypt! I broke his arm, and no one has wrapped it or put it in a sling, so that it could heal and get strong enough to hold a sword. </span><span class="v26_30_22"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.30.22" class="v26_30_22">22</span>So tell him that I am now his worst enemy. I will break both his arms—the good one and the broken one! His sword will drop from his hand forever, </span><span class="v26_30_23"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.30.23" class="v26_30_23">23</span>and I will scatter the Egyptians all over the world.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v26_30_24"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.30.24-Ezek.30.25" class="v26_30_24">24-25</span>I will strengthen the power of Babylonia's king and give him my sword to use against Egypt. I will also make the wounded king of Egypt powerless, and he will moan in pain and die in front of the Babylonian king. Then everyone on earth will know that I am the <span class="nd">Lord</span>. </span><span class="v26_30_26"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.30.26" class="v26_30_26">26</span>I will force the Egyptians to live as prisoners in foreign nations, and they will know that I, the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, have punished them.</span></p> <a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">30.4 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Ethiopia: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 29.10.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">30.5 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">as well as from Israel: </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">30.13 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Memphis: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew “Noph.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">30.14 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Thebes: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew “No.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">30.16 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">the people of Memphis … constant fear: </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">30.17 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Heliopolis and Bubastis: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew “On and Pi-Beseth.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">30.20 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Eleven years … first month: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Probably March of 587 <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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