(KJV) Ezekiel 301

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⥃A Lament for Egypt

[1] The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying, [2] Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord God; Howl2 ye, Woe worth the day! [3] For the day [is3] near, even the day of the Lord [is] near, a cloudy4 day; it shall be the time5 of the heathen. [4] And the sword6 shall come upon Egypt, and great pain7 shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they8 shall take away her multitude, and her9 foundations shall be broken down. [5] Ethiopia10, and Libya11, and Lydia, and all the12 mingled people, and Chub, and the men13 of the land that is14 in league, shall fall with them by the sword. [6] Thus saith the Lord; They also15 that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Syene16 shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord God. [7] And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries [that are] desolate, and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities [that are] wasted.17 [8] And they shall know18 that I [am] the Lord, when I19 have set a fire in Egypt, and [when] all her helpers shall be destroyed20. [9] In that day shall messengers21 go forth from me in ships to make the careless22 Ethiopians afraid, and great23 pain shall come upon them, as in the day of Egypt: for, lo24, it cometh. [10] Thus saith the Lord God; I will25 also make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the26 hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon. [11] He and his people with him, the terrible27 of the nations, shall be brought to destroy the land: and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill28 the land with the slain. [12] And I will make29 the rivers dry30, and sell31 the land into the hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all that is therein32, by the hand33 of strangers: I the Lord have spoken [it]. [13] Thus saith the Lord God; I will also34 destroy the idols, and I will cause [their] images to cease out of Noph35; and there shall36 be no more a prince of the land of Egypt: and I will put37 a fear in the land of Egypt. [14] And I will make Pathros38 desolate, and will set fire in Zoan39, and will execute40 judgments in No. [15] And I will pour41 my fury upon Sin42, the strength of Egypt; and I will cut off the multitude of No. [16] And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall have great pain, and No shall be rent asunder, and Noph [shall have] distresses daily.43 [17] The young men of Aven44 and of Pi–beseth45 shall fall by the sword: and these [cities] shall go into captivity. [18] At Tehaphnehes46 also the day47 shall be darkened48, when I shall break49 there the yokes of Egypt: and the pomp50 of her strength shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud51 shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity. [19] Thus will I execute judgments in Egypt: and they shall know that I [am] the Lord.52

⥃Pharaoh’s Power Broken

[20] And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first [month], in the seventh [day] of the month, [that] the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,53 [21] Son of man54, I have55 broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, lo, it shall not56 be bound up to be healed, to put a roller to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword. [22] Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I [am57] against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break58 his arms, the strong59, and that60 which was broken; and I will61 cause the sword to fall out of his hand. [23] And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.62 [24] And I will63 strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put64 my sword in his hand: but I will break Pharaoh’s arms, and he shall65 groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded [man]. [25] But I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know66 that I [am] the Lord, when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out upon the land of Egypt. [26] And I will67 scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among the countries; and they shall68 know that I [am] the Lord.

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  1. Ezek 30:1, The desolation of Egypt and her helpers; Ezek 30:20, The arm of Babylon shall be strengthened to break the arm of Egypt. ↩

  2. Ezek 21:12; Isa 13:6, Isa 14:31, Isa 15:2, Isa 16:7, Isa 23:1, Isa 23:6, Isa 65:14; Jer 4:8, Jer 47:2; Joel 1:5, Joel 1:11; Zeph 1:11; Zech 11:2; Jas 5:1; Rev 18:10 ↩

  3. Ezek 7:7, Ezek 7:12; Ps 37:13; Obad 1:15; Joel 2:1; Zeph 1:7, Zeph 1:14; Matt 24:33; Phil 4:5; Jas 5:9; Rev 6:17 ↩

  4. Ezek 30:18, Ezek 32:7, Ezek 34:12; Exod 14:20, Exod 14:24; Isa 19:1; Joel 2:1-2; Amos 5:16-20 ↩

  5. Ezek 29:12; Ps 110:6, Ps 149:7-9; Isa 24:21-23, Isa 34:2-17; Jer 25:15-29; Joel 3:11-14; Zeph 3:6-7; Zech 14:3-19; Rev 19:13-21 ↩

  6. Ezek 29:8; Isa 19:2; Jer 50:35-37 ↩

  7. or, fear, Ezek 30:9; Exod 15:14-16; Ps 48:6-7; Isa 19:16-17; Rev 18:9-10 ↩

  8. Ezek 30:10, Ezek 29:12, Ezek 29:19 ↩

  9. Isa 16:7; Jer 50:15 ↩

  10. Isa 18:1, Isa 20:4; Jer 46:9; Nah 3:8-9 ↩

  11. Heb. Phut, Ezek 27:10 ↩

  12. Jer 25:20, Jer 25:24, Jer 50:37 ↩

  13. Heb. children ↩

  14. Jer 44:27 ↩

  15. Job 9:13; Isa 20:3-6, Isa 31:3; Nah 3:9 ↩

  16. or, from Migdol to Syene, Ezek 29:10 ↩

  17. Ezek 29:12, Ezek 32:18-32; Jer 25:18-26, 46:1-51:64 ↩

  18. Ezek 28:24, Ezek 28:26, Ezek 29:6, Ezek 29:9, Ezek 29:16; Ps 58:11 ↩

  19. Ezek 30:14, Ezek 30:16, Ezek 22:31; Deut 32:22; Isa 42:25; Lam 4:11; Amos 1:4, Amos 1:7, Amos 1:10, Amos 1:12, Amos 1:14; Amos 2:2, Amos 2:5; Nah 1:5-6 ↩

  20. Heb. broken, Ezek 30:6 ↩

  21. Ezek 30:5-6; Isa 18:1-2, Isa 20:3, Isa 20:5; Zeph 2:12 ↩

  22. Ezek 38:11, Ezek 39:6; Judg 18:7; Isa 32:9-11, Isa 47:8; Jer 49:31; Zeph 2:15; 1Thess 5:2 ↩

  23. Ezek 30:4, Ezek 26:16, Ezek 27:35, Ezek 32:9-10; Isa 19:17, Isa 23:5; Jer 49:21; Zech 11:2-3 ↩

  24. Ezek 33:33; Amos 4:2 ↩

  25. Ezek 29:4-5, Ezek 29:19, Ezek 32:11-16 ↩

  26. Ezek 30:24-25 ↩

  27. Ezek 28:7, Ezek 31:12, Ezek 32:12; Deut 28:50; Isa 14:4-6; Jer 51:20-23; Hab 1:6-9 ↩

  28. Ezek 35:8, Ezek 39:4, Ezek 39:11-20; Isa 34:3-7; Zeph 1:17-18, Rev 14:20, Rev 19:18 ↩

  29. Ezek 29:3; Isa 19:4-10, Isa 44:27; Jer 50:38, Jer 51:36; Nah 1:4; Rev 16:12 ↩

  30. Heb. drought ↩

  31. Judg 2:14; Isa 19:4 ↩

  32. Heb. the fullness thereof, 1Cor 10:26 ↩

  33. Ezek 28:10, Ezek 31:12 ↩

  34. Exod 12:12; Isa 19:1-15; Jer 43:12-13, Jer 46:25; Zeph 2:11; Zech 13:2 ↩

  35. Isa 19:13; Jer 2:16, Jer 44:1, Jer 46:14; Hos 9:6, Memphis, Heb. Moph ↩

  36. Ezek 29:14-15; Zech 10:11 ↩

  37. Isa 19:16; Jer 46:5 ↩

  38. Ezek 29:14 ↩

  39. or, Tanis, Num 13:22; Ps 78:12, Ps 78:43; Isa 19:11, Isa 30:4 ↩

  40. Jer 46:25; Nah 3:8 ↩

  41. Ps 11:6; Nah 1:6; Rev 16:1 ↩

  42. or, Pelusium, Now Tineh, a town of Egypt, situated at the eastern extremity of the Delta, twenty stadia from the Mediterranean, near the lake of Menzaleh, and upon a branch of the Nile, to which it gave name. It was the key of Egypt on the side of Judea and Syria, and was therefore strongly fortified and garrisoned; but it is now quite in ruins. ↩

  43. Ezek 30:8-9, Ezek 28:18 ↩

  44. or, Heliopolis, Gen 41:45 ↩

  45. or Pubastum, Situated on the Pelusiac branch of the Nile, near the top of the Delta. ↩

  46. Jer 2:16, Tahapanes, Jer 43:7-9, Jer 46:14, Tahpanhes ↩

  47. Exod 10:15; Isa 5:30, Isa 9:19, Isa 13:10; Joel 3:15; Matt 24:29 ↩

  48. or, restrained ↩

  49. Ezek 29:15; Isa 9:4, Isa 10:27, Isa 14:25 ↩

  50. Ezek 31:18, Ezek 32:18-32; Isa 14:11; Jer 46:20-26 ↩

  51. Ezek 30:3; Isa 19:1 ↩

  52. Ezek 30:14, Ezek 5:8, Ezek 5:15, Ezek 25:11, Ezek 39:21; Num 33:4; Ps 9:16, Ps 149:7; Rom 2:5; Rev 17:1 ↩

  53. am 3416, bc 588, Ezek 1:2, Ezek 26:1, Ezek 29:1, Ezek 29:17 ↩

  54. This prophecy was delivered soon after the Egyptians under Pharaoh–hophra had come to relieve Jerusalem, and some months before the city was taken, being the eleventh year of Jeremiah's captivity, and answering to April 26, am 3416. When the king of Babylon took from the king of Egypt, in the days of Pharaoh–necho, all his dominions in Asia, one of his arms was broken. God now declared that he should never recover these territories, or gain any ascendancy in that part of the world; nay, that his other arm, which was now strong, should soon be broken, and rendered utterly useless. This was fulfilled when Hophra was dethroned and driven into Upper Egypt by Amasis; and then Nebuchadnezzar, taking advantage of this civil discord, invaded and conquered that kingdom, and enslaved, dispersed, and carried captive the Egyptians. ↩

  55. Ezek 30:24; Ps 10:15, Ps 37:17; Jer 48:25 ↩

  56. Isa 1:6; Jer 30:13, Jer 46:11, Jer 51:8-9; Nah 3:16; Rev 18:21 ↩

  57. Ezek 29:3; Jer 46:25 ↩

  58. Ps 37:17 ↩

  59. Ezek 34:16 ↩

  60. 2Kgs 24:7; Jer 37:7, Jer 46:1-12 ↩

  61. Jer 46:21-25 ↩

  62. Ezek 30:17-18, Ezek 30:26, Ezek 29:12-13 ↩

  63. Ezek 30:25; Neh 6:9; Ps 18:32, Ps 18:39, Ps 144:1; Isa 45:1, Isa 45:5; Jer 27:6-8; Zech 10:11-12 ↩

  64. Deut 32:41-42; Ps 17:13; Isa 10:5-6, Isa 10:15; Zeph 2:12 ↩

  65. Ezek 26:15; Job 24:12; Jer 51:52 ↩

  66. Ezek 30:19, Ezek 30:26, Ezek 29:16, Ezek 29:21, Ezek 32:15, Ezek 38:16, Ezek 38:23, Ezek 39:21-22; Ps 9:16 ↩

  67. Ezek 30:17-18, Ezek 30:23, Ezek 6:13, Ezek 29:12; Dan 11:42 ↩

  68. Ezek 30:8 ↩