14 Bible Verses about The Prophecy Towards Egypt

Do not detest an Edomite for he is your brother. Do not detest an Egyptian, because you were an alien (strangers) (guests) in his land. The sons of the third generation who are born to them may enter the assembly of Jehovah.

Then it will happen in that day that Jehovah will again recover the second time with his hand the remnant of his people. They will remain, from Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Cush, Elam, Shinar, Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.

Jehovah will utterly destroy the tongue of the Sea of Egypt. He will wave his hand, his mighty Spirit, over the (Euphrates) River. He will strike it into seven streams and make men walk over on dry land.

Jehovah rides on a swift cloud and is coming to Egypt. The idols of Egypt tremble before him. The hearts of the Egyptians melt (their courage fails) within them. I will stir up Egyptian against Egyptian. Brother will fight against brother, neighbor against neighbor, city against city, kingdom against kingdom. The Egyptians will become discouraged. I will bring their plans to nothing. They will consult the idols and the spirits of the dead, the mediums and the spiritists.read more.
I will hand the Egyptians over to the power of a cruel master, and a fierce king will rule over them. This is the declaration of Jehovah of Hosts, the Almighty. The waters of the Nile River will dry up. The riverbed will be parched and dry. The canals will stink. The streams of Egypt will dwindle and dry up. The reeds and rushes will wither. The plants (rushes) along the Nile, at the mouth of the river will wither. Every sown field along the Nile will become parched and blow away to be no more. The fishermen will groan and lament. All who cast hooks into the Nile and throw nets on the water will be weak and sick. Those who work with combed flax will despair. The weavers of fine linen (and cotton) will lose hope. The workers in cloth will be dejected, and all the wage earners will be sick at heart. The officials of Zoan are nothing but fools. The wise counselors of Pharaoh give senseless advice. How can you say to Pharaoh: I am one of the wise men, a disciple of the ancient kings? Where are your wise men now? Let them show you and make known what Jehovah of Hosts has purposed (planned) (resolved) against Egypt. The officials of Zoan have become fools. The leaders of Memphis (Noph) are deceived. The cornerstones of her peoples have led Egypt astray. Jehovah has poured into them a spirit of dizziness. They make Egypt stagger in all that she does, as a drunkard staggers around in his vomit. There is nothing Egypt can do head or tail, palm branch or reed. A time is coming when the people of Egypt will be as timid as women. They will tremble in terror when they see that Jehovah of Hosts has stretched out his hand (extended His power) to punish them. The people of Egypt will be terrified of Judah every time they are reminded of the fate that Jehovah of Hosts has prepared for them. When that time comes, the Hebrew language will be spoken in five Egyptian cities. The people there will take their oaths in the name of Jehovah of Hosts. One of the cities will be called: City of Destruction. When that time comes, there will be an altar to Jehovah in the middle of the land of Egypt and a stone pillar dedicated to him at the Egyptian border. They will be a sign of the presence of Jehovah of Hosts in Egypt. When the people there are oppressed and call out to Jehovah for help, he will send someone to rescue them. Jehovah will make himself known to Egypt, and the Egyptians will know Jehovah in that day. They will even worship with sacrifice and offering, and will make a vow to Jehovah and perform it. Jehovah will strike Egypt, striking but healing; so they will turn to Jehovah, and he will respond to them and will heal them. In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria. The Assyrians will come to Egypt and the Egyptians to Assyria, and the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians. In that day Israel will be the third party with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth. Jehovah of Hosts has blessed, saying: Blessed is Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance.

Jehovah said: Just as my servant Isaiah has gone stripped and barefoot for three years, as a sign and portent against Egypt and Cush, so the king of Assyria will lead away stripped and barefoot the Egyptian captives and Cushite exiles, young and old, with buttocks bared to Egypt's shame. Those who trusted in Cush and boasted in Egypt will be afraid and put to shame.read more.
That day the people who live on this coast will say: 'See what has happened to those we relied on, those we fled to for help and deliverance from the king of Assyria! How then can we escape?'

In that day Jehovah will thresh from the flowing Euphrates River to the Wadi (streambed) of Egypt. You, O Israelites, will be gathered up one by one. A great trumpet will sound. Those who were perishing in Assyria and those who were exiled in Egypt will come and worship Jehovah on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.

The days are coming, proclaims Jehovah, when I will punish all who are circumcised [only in the flesh]. Yet they are not circumcised [in the heart]. I will punish Egypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon, and Moab. I will punish all who shave the hair on their foreheads or live in the desert. Even though all these nations are uncircumcised, all Israel has uncircumcised hearts.

I will hand them over to those who want to kill them, to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and his officers. Afterward, they will live in peace as they did long ago,'declares Jehovah.

In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth of the month, the word of Jehovah came to me: Son of man set your face (present yourself) against Pharaoh king of Egypt and prophesy against him and against all Egypt. Say this, 'The Lord Jehovah says: I am against you Pharaoh, king of Egypt, the great monster (Egypt) (Psalm 74:13,14) that lies in the midst of his rivers. You have said: 'My Nile is mine! I have made it!'read more.
I will put hooks in your jaws and make the fish of your rivers cling to your scales. I will bring you up out of the midst of your rivers. All the fish of your rivers will cling to your scales. I will abandon you to the wilderness and all the fish of your rivers. You will fall on the open field. You will not be brought together or gathered. I have given you for food to the beasts of the earth and to the birds of the sky. Then all the inhabitants of Egypt will know that I am Jehovah. This is because they have been only a staff made of reed to the house of Israel. When they took hold of you with the hand, you broke and tore all their hands. When they leaned on you, you broke and made all their loins quake. Therefore the Lord Jehovah says: I will bring upon you a sword and I will cut off from you man and beast. The land of Egypt will become a desolation and waste. Then they will know that I am Jehovah. Because you said: 'The Nile is mine, and I have made it.' I am against you and against your rivers. I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from Migdol to Syene and even to the border of Ethiopia. A man's foot will not pass through it, and the foot of a beast will not pass through it, and it will not be inhabited for forty years. So I will make the land of Egypt desolation in the midst of desolated lands. And her cities, in the midst of cities that are laid waste, will be desolate forty years. I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the lands. The Lord Jehovah says: At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples among whom they were scattered. I will turn the fortunes of Egypt and make them return to the land of Pathros, to the land of their origin. They will be a lowly kingdom. It will be the lowest of the kingdoms, and it will never again lift itself up above the nations. I will make them so small that they will not rule over the nations. It will never again be the confidence of the house of Israel, bringing to mind the iniquity of their having turned to Egypt. Then they will know that I am the Lord Jehovah.' Now in the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first of the month, the word of Jehovah came to me. He said: Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made his army labor hard against Tyre. Every head was made bald and every shoulder was rubbed bare. But he and his army had no wages from Tyre for the labor that he had performed against it. The Lord Jehovah says: 'I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. He will carry off her wealth and capture her spoil and seize her plunder. It will serve as wages for his army. I have given him the land of Egypt for the labor he performed, because they acted for me,' declares the Lord Jehovah. On that day I will make a horn sprout for the house of Israel (make the people of Israel strong again), and I give you, Ezekiel, something to say among them. Then they will know that I am Jehovah.

Jehovah continued to speak his word to me: Son of man, prophesy. Say, 'The Lord Jehovah says: Cry for that day! The day is near. The Day of Jehovah is near. It will be a gloomy day, a time of trouble for the nations.read more.
There will be war in Egypt and anguish in Ethiopia. Many Egyptians will fall dead. People will take away Egypt's wealth, and its foundations will be torn down. Sudan, Put, Lud, all the Arabs, the Libyans, and people from the promised land will die in battle.' This is what Jehovah says: 'All Egypt's allies will die. Egypt's strength will disappear. People will die in war from Migdol to Syene, declares the Lord Jehovah!' Egypt will become the most desolate country in the world! Egypt's cities will lie in ruins. They will be ruined more than other cities. Then they will know that I am Jehovah, because I will set fire to Egypt and all her defenders will be killed. On that day I will send messengers in ships to terrify those who live in safety in Sudan. The people of Sudan will be in anguish when Egypt is in trouble. That day is coming!' This is what the Lord Jehovah says: I will use King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon to bring an end to Egypt. He and his troops, the most ruthless troops among the nations, will be brought to destroy the land. They will draw their swords to attack Egypt and fill the land with dead bodies. I will dry up the Nile River and sell the land to wicked people. I will have foreigners destroy the land and everything in it. I, Jehovah, have spoken.' This is what the Lord Jehovah says: 'I will destroy the statues and put an end to the idols in Memphis. A prince will never rise again in Egypt. I will spread fear throughout Egypt. I will destroy Pathros, set fire to Zoan and bring punishment on Thebes. I will pour out my fury on Sin, Egypt's fortress, and I will kill many people in Thebes. I will set fire to Egypt. Sin will be in much pain. Thebes will be broken into pieces, and Memphis will be in trouble every day. The young men from Heliopolis and Bubastis will die in battle, and people from these cities will go into exile. At Tahpanhes the day will turn dark when I break Egypt's power. Egypt's strong army will be defeated. Clouds will cover Egypt, and people from its villages will go into exile.' Then they will know that I am Jehovah, because I will bring punishment on Egypt. On the seventh day of the first month in the eleventh year, Jehovah spoke his word to me: Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. His arm is not bandaged, so it cannot heal and be strong enough to hold a sword. The Lord Jehovah says: 'I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt. I will break his arms, both the strong and the broken. I will make the sword fall from his hand. I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the lands. For I will strengthen the arms (the power) of the king of Babylon and put my sword in his hand. I will break the arms of Pharaoh. He will groan before him with the groanings of a wounded man. I will strengthen the arms (the power) of the king of Babylon, but the arms of Pharaoh will fall. Then they will know that I am Jehovah, when I put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon and he stretches it out against the land of Egypt. When I scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the lands, then they will know that I am Jehovah.'

In the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first of the month, the word of Jehovah came to me: Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his hordes: 'Who are you like in your greatness? Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon with beautiful branches and forest shade, and very high, and its top was among the clouds.read more.
The waters made it grow, the deep made it high. With its rivers it continually extended all around its planting place, and sent out its channels to all the trees of the field. Therefore its height was loftier than all the trees of the field. 'Its boughs became many and its branches long because of many waters as it spread them out. All the birds of the heavens nested in its boughs. Under its branches all the beasts of the field gave birth and all great nations lived under its shade. So it was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches; for its roots extended to many waters. The cedars in God's garden could not match it. The cypresses could not compare with its boughs. The plane trees could not match its branches. No tree in God's garden could compare with it in its beauty. I made it beautiful with the multitude of its branches. All the trees of Eden in the garden of God were jealous of it.' The Lord Jehovah says: 'Because it is high in stature and has set its top among the clouds, and its heart is haughty in its loftiness, I will give it into the hand of a despot of the nations. He will thoroughly deal with it. According to its wickedness I have driven it away. Alien tyrants of the nations have cut it down and left it. On the mountains and in all the valleys its branches have fallen and its boughs have been broken in all the ravines of the land. All the peoples of the earth have gone down from its shade and left it. On its ruin all the birds of the heavens will dwell. All the beasts of the field will be on its fallen branches so that all the trees by the waters may not be exalted in their stature, nor set their top among the clouds, nor their well-watered mighty ones stand erect in their height. For they have all been given over to death, to the earth beneath, among the sons of men, with those who go down to the pit.' The Lord Jehovah says: 'On the day when it went down to the grave I caused cries of sorrow. I closed the deep over it and held back its rivers. Its many waters were stopped up, and I made Lebanon mourn for it. All the trees of the field wilted away on account of it. I made the nations quake at the sound of its fall when I made it go down to the grave with those who go down to the pit. All the well-watered trees of Eden, the choicest and best of Lebanon, were comforted in the earth beneath. They also went down with it to the grave to those who were slain by the sword. Those who were its strength lived under its shade among the nations.' Which of the trees of Eden are you equal to in glory and greatness? Yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the earth beneath. You will lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those who were slain by the sword. So is Pharaoh and all his hordes!' Declares the Lord Jehovah.'

In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first of the month, the word of Jehovah came to me: Son of man, take up a cry of sorrow and grief over Pharaoh king of Egypt. Say to him: 'You compared yourself to a young lion of the nations. 'You are really like the monster in the seas. You burst forth in your rivers and muddied the waters with your feet and fouled their rivers.' The Lord Jehovah says: 'Now I will spread my net over you with a company of many peoples. They will lift you up in my net.read more.
I will leave you on the land. I will cast you on the open field. I will cause all the birds of the heavens to dwell on you. And I will satisfy the beasts of the entire earth with you. I will lay your flesh on the mountains. I will fill the valleys with your refuse. I will also make the land drink the discharge of your blood as far away as the mountains. The ravines will be full of you.' When I extinguish you, I will cover the heavens and darken their stars. I will cover the sun with a cloud and the moon will not give its light. All the shining lights in the heavens I will darken over you. And I will set darkness on your land,' proclaims the Lord Jehovah. I will also trouble the hearts of many peoples when I bring your destruction among the nations, into lands you have not known. I will make many peoples astonished at you. Their kings will be dreadfully afraid of you when I brandish my sword before them. They will tremble every moment, every man for his own life, on the day of your fall.' The Lord Jehovah says: 'You will face the sword of the king of Babylon. I will cut down your people with the swords of warriors. All of them will be the most ruthless warriors among the nations. They will shatter the pride of Egypt and destroy its many people. I will also destroy all the animals beside its many water sources. The feet of humans and the hoofs of animals will not stir up the water anymore.' Then I will make its water clear and make its streams flow like oil,' declares the Lord Jehovah. I will turn Egypt into a wasteland. I will take everything in the land, and I will kill all the people who live there. Then they will know that I am Jehovah. This is a funeral song. The people from the nations will sing this song. They will sing it as they mourn for Egypt and its many people, declares the Lord Jehovah. On the fifteenth day of the month in the twelfth year, Jehovah spoke his word to me. He said: Son of man, cry for the many people of Egypt. Bring them down along with the other mighty nations. Send them down below the earth to be with those who have gone down to the pit. Tell them: 'Are you more beautiful than anyone else? Go down and join the godless people. The Egyptians will lie among those who were killed in battle. A sword has been drawn. Drag Egypt and its many people away. The mightiest warriors will say to Pharaoh from the grave: You and your defenders have come down. You now lie with the godless people who were killed in battle. Assyria is there with its whole army. The graves of its soldiers are all around it. All of its soldiers are dead. They have been killed in battle. Their graves are in the deepest parts of the pit. Assyria's army lies around its grave. All of its soldiers are dead. They have been killed in battle. They once terrified people in the land of the living. Elam is there with all its soldiers. The graves of its soldiers are all around it. All of its soldiers are dead. They have been killed in battle. They went down below the earth as godless people. They once terrified people in the land of the living. Now they suffer disgrace with those who have gone down to the pit. A bed has been made for Elam among the dead. The graves of its soldiers are all around it. The soldiers were godless people. They were killed in battle because they terrified others in the land of the living. They suffer disgrace with those who have gone down to the pit. They lie among the dead. Meshech and Tubal are there with all their soldiers. The graves of their soldiers are all around them. Their soldiers were all godless people. They were killed in battle because they terrified others in the land of the living. They do not lie with the godless warriors who died and went down to the grave with their weapons of war. Their swords were placed under their heads. Their iniquity rested on their bones because they terrified others in the land of the living. You Egyptians will be crushed with the godless people. You will lie with those who were killed in battle. Edom is there with its kings and its princes. They used to be powerful, but now they lie with those who were killed in battle. They lie there with the godless people and with those who have gone down to the pit. All the rulers from the north and all the people from Sidon are there. They also went down with the dead. They are disgraced because they terrified people with their power. They were godless people. Now they lie with those who were killed in battle. They suffer disgrace with those who went down to the pit. Pharaoh and his army will see these things and be comforted over all the soldiers who have been killed in battle,' proclaims the Lord Jehovah. I terrified people in the land of the living. Pharaoh and all his soldiers will be laid among the godless people who were killed in battle,' proclaims the Lord Jehovah.

It will happen in that day that the mountains will drop sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the brooks of Judah will flow with water. A fountain will come forth from the house of Jehovah and water the valley of Shittim. Egypt will be desolation, and Edom will be a desolate wilderness. This is because of the violence done to the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land. Judah will abide for a very long time, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.read more.
I will cleanse (forgive) their blood [guilt] that which I have not cleansed. Jehovah dwells in Zion!

I will sow them among the peoples! They will remember me in far countries. They will live with their children and return. I will once again bring them out of the land of Egypt. I will gather them out of Assyria. I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon and a place will not be found for them. He will pass through the sea of affliction and will strike the waves in the sea. The depths of the Nile will dry up; and the pride of Assyria will be removed and the scepter of Egypt will depart.read more.
I will strengthen them in Jehovah and they will walk in his name, declared Jehovah.