Ezekiel 30
Reading Ezekiel chapter 30 in the World English Bible, public-domain text from 2000.
Verses 1–10
1 The LORD’s word came again to me, saying,
2 “Son of man, prophesy, and say, ‘The Lord GOD says: “Wail, ‘Alas for the day!’
3 For the day is near, even the LORD’s day is near. It will be a day of clouds, a time of the nations.
4 A sword will come on Egypt, and anguish will be in Ethiopia, when the slain fall in Egypt. They take away her multitude, and her foundations are broken down.
5 “‘“Ethiopia, Put, Lud, all the mixed people, Cub, and the children of the land that is allied with them, will fall with them by the sword.”
6 “‘The LORD says: “They also who uphold Egypt will fall. The pride of her power will come down. They will fall by the sword in it from the tower of Seveneh,” says the Lord GOD.
7 “They will be desolate in the middle of the countries that are desolate. Her cities will be amongst the cities that are wasted.
8 They will know that I am the LORD when I have set a fire in Egypt, and all her helpers are destroyed.
9 “‘“In that day messengers will go out from before me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid. There will be anguish on them, as in the day of Egypt; for, behold, it comes.”
10 “‘The Lord GOD says: “I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease, by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.
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