Ezekiel 29

1In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,Cross-references: Ezek 1:2 · Ezek 8:1 · Ezek 20:1 · Ezek 26:1 · Ezek 29:17 · Ezek 40:1

2“Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him and against all Egypt.Cross-references: Isa 18:1 · Isa 20:1 · Jer 9:25 · Jer 25:18 · Jer 43:8 · Jer 44:30 · +9 more

3Speak and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lies in the middle of his rivers, that has said, ‘My river is my own, and I have made it for myself.’Cross-references: Deut 8:17 · Ps 74:13 · Ps 76:7 · Isa 10:13 · Isa 27:1 · Isa 51:9 · +14 more

4I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will make the fish of your rivers stick to your scales. I will bring you up out of the middle of your rivers, with all the fish of your rivers which stick to your scales.Cross-references: 2Ki 19:28 · Job 41:1 · Isa 37:29 · Ezek 38:4 · Amos 4:2 · Hab 1:14

5I’ll cast you out into the wilderness, you and all the fish of your rivers. You’ll fall on the open field. You won’t be brought together or gathered. I have given you for food to the animals of the earth and to the birds of the sky.Cross-references: 1Sam 17:44 · Ps 74:14 · Ps 110:5 · Jer 7:33 · Jer 8:2 · Jer 16:4 · +7 more

6“‘“All the inhabitants of Egypt will know that I am Yahweh, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.Cross-references: Ex 9:14 · Ex 14:18 · 2Ki 18:21 · Isa 20:5 · Isa 30:2 · Isa 31:1 · +5 more

7When they took hold of you by your hand, you broke and tore all their shoulders. When they leaned on you, you broke and paralyzed all of their thighs.”Cross-references: Ps 118:8 · Ps 146:3 · Prov 25:19 · Isa 36:6 · Jer 17:5 · Jer 37:5 · +1 more

8“‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I will bring a sword on you, and will cut off man and animal from you.Cross-references: Gen 6:7 · Ex 12:12 · Jer 7:20 · Jer 32:43 · Jer 46:13 · Ezek 14:17 · +5 more

9The land of Egypt will be a desolation and a waste. Then they will know that I am Yahweh. “‘“Because he has said, ‘The river is mine, and I have made it,’Cross-references: Prov 16:18 · Prov 18:12 · Prov 29:23 · Jer 43:10 · Ezek 29:3 · Ezek 29:10 · +2 more

10therefore, behold, I am against you and against your rivers. I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from the tower of Seveneh even to the border of Ethiopia.Cross-references: Ex 14:2 · Jer 44:1 · Jer 46:14 · Ezek 29:11 · Ezek 30:6 · Ezek 30:12 · +1 more

11No foot of man will pass through it, nor will any animal foot pass through it. It won’t be inhabited for forty years.Cross-references: 2Chr 36:21 · Isa 23:15 · Isa 23:17 · Jer 25:11 · Jer 29:10 · Jer 43:11 · +6 more

12I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the middle of the countries that are desolate. Her cities among the cities that are laid waste will be a desolation forty years. I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.”Cross-references: Jer 25:15 · Jer 27:6 · Jer 46:19 · Ezek 30:7 · Ezek 30:23 · Ezek 30:26

13“‘For the Lord Yahweh says: “At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples where they were scattered.Cross-references: Isa 19:22 · Jer 46:26

14I will reverse the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their birth. There they will be a lowly kingdom.Cross-references: Gen 10:14 · 1Chr 1:12 · Isa 11:11 · Jer 44:1 · Ezek 30:14

15It will be the lowest of the kingdoms. It won’t lift itself up above the nations any more. I will diminish them so that they will no longer rule over the nations.Cross-references: Ezek 17:6 · Ezek 17:14 · Ezek 30:13 · Ezek 31:2 · Ezek 32:2 · Dan 11:42 · +2 more

16It will no longer be the confidence of the house of Israel, bringing iniquity to memory, when they turn to look after them. Then they will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.”’”Cross-references: Num 5:15 · 1Ki 17:18 · Ps 25:7 · Ps 79:8 · Isa 20:5 · Isa 30:1 · +24 more

17It came to pass in the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, in the first day of the month, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,Cross-references: Ezek 1:2 · Ezek 24:1 · Ezek 29:1

18“Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre. Every head was made bald, and every shoulder was worn; yet he had no wages, nor did his army, from Tyre, for the service that he had served against it.Cross-references: Jer 25:9 · Jer 27:6 · Jer 48:37 · Ezek 26:7

19Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. He will carry off her multitude, take her plunder, and take her prey. That will be the wages for his army.Cross-references: Jer 43:10 · Ezek 29:8 · Ezek 30:4 · Ezek 30:10 · Ezek 30:24 · Ezek 32:11

20I have given him the land of Egypt as his payment for which he served, because they worked for me,’ says the Lord Yahweh.Cross-references: 2Ki 10:30 · Isa 10:6 · Isa 45:1 · Jer 25:9

21“In that day I will cause a horn to sprout for the house of Israel, and I will open your mouth among them. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.”Cross-references: 1Sam 2:10 · Ps 51:15 · Ps 92:10 · Ps 112:9 · Ps 132:17 · Ps 148:14 · +13 more