Ezekiel 30

²“Son of man, prophesy, and say, ‘The Lord GOD says:

³For the day is near,

⁴A sword will come on Egypt,

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:

⁷“They will be desolate in the middle of the countries that are desolate.

⁸They will know that I am the LORD

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:

¹¹He and his people with him,

¹²I will make the rivers dry,

¹³“‘The Lord GOD says:

¹⁴I will make Pathros desolate,

¹⁵I will pour my wrath on Sin,

¹⁶I will set a fire in Egypt

¹⁷The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth will fall by the sword.

¹⁸At Tehaphnehes also the day will withdraw itself,

¹⁹Thus I will execute judgments on Egypt.

²⁰In the eleventh year, in the first month, in the seventh day of the month, the LORD’s word came to me, saying,

²¹“Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Behold, it has not been bound up, to apply medicines, to put a bandage to bind it, that it may become strong to hold the sword.

²²Therefore the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong arm, and that which was broken. I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.

²³I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.

²⁴I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand; but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan before the king of Babylon with the groaning of a mortally wounded man.

²⁵I will hold up the arms of the king of Babylon, but the arms of Pharaoh will fall down. Then they will know that I am the LORD when I put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he stretches it out on the land of Egypt.

²⁶I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them through the countries. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’”