Thematic Bible
Ezekiel 29:1 (show verse)
In the tenth year, upon the twelfth day of the tenth Month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 29:2 (show verse)
"O thou son of man, set now face against Pharaoh the king of Egypt: Prophesy against him and against the whole land of Egypt.
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Ezekiel 29:3 (show verse)
Speak, and tell him, 'Thus sayeth the LORD God: Behold, O Pharaoh thou king of Egypt, I will upon thee, thou great dragon that liest in the waters; thou that sayest, 'The water is mine; I have made it myself.'
Ezekiel 29:4 (show verse)
I will put a hook in thy jaws, and hang all the fish in thy waters upon thy scales; after that I will draw thee out of thy waters, yea, and all the fish of the waters that hang upon thy scales.
Ezekiel 29:5 (show verse)
I will cast thee out upon the dry land with the fish of thy waters, so that thou shalt lie upon the field. Thou shalt not be gathered nor taken up: but shall be meat for the beasts of the field, and for the fowls of the air:
Ezekiel 29:6 (show verse)
that all they which dwell in Egypt, may know, that I am the LORD: because thou hast been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.
Ezekiel 29:7 (show verse)
When they took hold of thee with their hand thou breakest and prickest them on every side: and if they leaned upon thee, thou brakest and hurtest the reins of their backs.
Ezekiel 29:8 (show verse)
"'Therefore, thus sayeth the LORD God: Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and root out of thee both man and beast.
Ezekiel 29:9 (show verse)
Yea, the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste, and they shall know that I am the LORD: Because he said, 'The water is mine, I myself have made it.'
Ezekiel 29:10 (show verse)
Behold therefore, I will upon thee, and upon thy waters: I will make the land of Egypt waste and desolate, from the tower of Syene unto the borders of the Ethiopians' land:
Ezekiel 29:11 (show verse)
so that in forty years there shall no foot of man walk there, neither foot of cattle go there, neither shall it be inhabited.
Ezekiel 29:12 (show verse)
I will make the land of Egypt to be desolate among other waste countries, and her cities to lie void forty years, among other void cities: And I will scatter the Egyptians among the Heathen and nations.
Ezekiel 29:13 (show verse)
Again, thus sayeth the LORD God: When the forty years are expired I will gather the Egyptians together again, out of the nations, among whom they were scattered,
Ezekiel 29:14 (show verse)
and will bring the prisoners of Egypt again into the land of Pathros their own native country, that they may be there a lowly small kingdom:
Ezekiel 29:15 (show verse)
Yea, they shall be the smallest among the other kingdoms, lest they exalt themselves above the Heathen, for I will so diminish them,
Ezekiel 29:16 (show verse)
that they shall no more rule the Heathen. They shall no more be a hope unto the house of Israel, neither provoke them any more to wickedness, to cause them turn back, and follow them: and they shall know, that I am the LORD God.'"
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Ezekiel 29:17 (show verse)
In the twenty seventh year, the first day of the first Month, came the word of the LORD unto me, saying,
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Ezekiel 29:18 (show verse)
"O thou son of man, Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon hath made his host, with great travail and labour to come before Tyre: that every head may be bald, and every shoulder bare. Yet hath Tyre given neither him nor his host any reward, for the great travail that he hath taken there.
Ezekiel 29:19 (show verse)
Therefore thus sayeth the LORD God: Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, that he may take away all her substance, rob her robberies, and spoil her spoils, to pay his host their wages withal.
Ezekiel 29:20 (show verse)
For the work which he wrought about it, I have given him the land of Egypt, because they wrought for me, sayeth the LORD God.
Ezekiel 29:21 (show verse)
At the same time will I cause the horn of the house of Israel to grow forth, and open thy mouth again among them: that they may know how that I am the LORD."