Ezekiel 30

English Standard Version

A Lament for Egypt

30 The word of the Lord came to me: ²^(A)“Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord God:

^(B)“Wail, ‘Alas for the day!’
³    ^(C)For the day is near,
    ^(D)the day of the Lord is near;
it will be ^(E)a day of clouds,
    a time of doom for^[a] the nations.
⁴^(F)A sword shall come upon Egypt,
    ^(G)and anguish shall be in ^(H)Cush,
when the slain fall in Egypt,
    and ^(I)her wealth^[b] is carried away,
    and ^(J)her foundations are torn down.

⁵^(K)Cush, and ^(L)Put, and Lud, and ^(M)all Arabia, and Libya,^[c] and the people of the land that is in league,^[d] shall fall with them by the sword.

⁶“Thus says the Lord:
^(N)Those who support Egypt shall fall,
    and ^(O)her proud might shall come down;
^(P)from Migdol to Syene
    they shall fall within her by the sword,
declares the Lord God.
⁷^(Q)And they shall be desolated in the midst of desolated countries,
    and their cities shall be in the midst of cities that are laid waste.
⁸^(R)Then they will know that I am the Lord,
    when ^(S)I have set fire to Egypt,
    and ^(T)all her helpers are broken.

⁹“On that day ^(U)messengers shall go out from me in ships to terrify the unsuspecting ^(V)people of Cush, and ^(W)anguish shall come upon them on the day of Egypt's doom;^[e] for, behold, it comes!

¹⁰“Thus says the Lord God:

^(X)“I will put an end to the wealth of Egypt,
    by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.
¹¹He and his people with him, ^(Y)the most ruthless of nations,
    shall be brought in to destroy the land,
^(Z)and they shall draw their swords against Egypt
    and fill the land with the slain.
¹²And ^(AA)I will ^(AB)dry up the Nile
    and will sell the land into the hand of ^(AC)evildoers;
^(AD)I will bring desolation upon the land and everything in it,
    by the hand of ^(AE)foreigners;
^(AF)I am the Lord; I have spoken.

¹³“Thus says the Lord God:

^(AG)“I will destroy the idols
    and put an end to the images in ^(AH)Memphis;
^(AI)there shall no longer be a prince from the land of Egypt;
    so ^(AJ)I will put fear in the land of Egypt.
¹⁴I will make ^(AK)Pathros a desolation
    and will set fire to ^(AL)Zoan
    ^(AM)and will execute judgments on ^(AN)Thebes.
¹⁵And I will pour out my wrath on Pelusium,
    the stronghold of Egypt,
    and cut off the multitude^[f] of Thebes.
¹⁶And I will set fire to Egypt;
    Pelusium shall be in great agony;
Thebes shall be breached,
    and ^(AO)Memphis shall face enemies^[g] by day.
¹⁷The young men of On and of Pi-beseth shall fall by the sword,
    and the women^[h] shall go into captivity.
¹⁸At ^(AP)Tehaphnehes ^(AQ)the day shall be dark,
    when I break there the yoke bars of Egypt,
and ^(AR)her proud might shall come to an end in her;
    she shall be covered by a cloud,
    and her daughters shall go into captivity.
¹⁹Thus ^(AS)I will execute judgments on Egypt.
    ^(AT)Then they will know that I am the Lord.”

Egypt Shall Fall to Babylon

²⁰^(AU)In the eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me: ²¹^(AV)“Son of man, ^(AW)I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and behold, ^(AX)it has not been bound up, to heal it by binding it with a bandage, so that it may become strong to wield the sword. ²²Therefore thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt and ^(AY)will break his arms, both the strong arm and the one that was broken, and I will make the sword fall from his hand. ²³^(AZ)I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them through the countries. ²⁴And ^(BA)I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon and put ^(BB)my sword in his hand, but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan before him ^(BC)like a man mortally wounded. ²⁵I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, but the arms of Pharaoh shall fall. ^(BD)Then they shall know that I am the Lord, ^(BE)when I put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon and he stretches it out against the land of Egypt. ²⁶And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them throughout the countries. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”

Footnotes

Ezekiel 30:3 Hebrew lacks doom for
Ezekiel 30:4 Or multitude; also verse 10
Ezekiel 30:5 With Septuagint; Hebrew Cub
Ezekiel 30:5 Hebrew and the sons of the land of the covenant
Ezekiel 30:9 Hebrew the day of Egypt
Ezekiel 30:15 Or wealth
Ezekiel 30:16 Or distress
Ezekiel 30:17 Or the cities; Hebrew they

Hebrews 12

English Standard Version

Jesus, Founder and Perfecter of Our Faith

12 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and ^(A)sin which clings so closely, and ^(B)let us run ^(C)with endurance the race that is ^(D)set before us, ²looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, ^(E)who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising ^(F)the shame, and ^(G)is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

Do Not Grow Weary

³^(H)Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or ^(I)fainthearted. ⁴In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. ⁵And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons?

^(J)“My son, ^(K)do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord,
nor be weary when reproved by him.
⁶For ^(L)the Lord disciplines the one he loves,
and chastises every son whom he receives.”

⁷It is for discipline that you have to endure. ^(M)God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? ⁸If you are left without discipline, ^(N)in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. ⁹Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to ^(O)the Father of spirits ^(P)and live? ¹⁰For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, ^(Q)that we may share his holiness. ¹¹^(R)For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields ^(S)the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

¹²Therefore ^(T)lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees, ¹³and ^(U)make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint ^(V)but rather be healed. ¹⁴^(W)Strive for peace with everyone, and for the ^(X)holiness ^(Y)without which no one will see the Lord. ¹⁵See to it that no one ^(Z)fails to obtain the grace of God; that no ^(AA)“root of bitterness” springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled; ¹⁶that no one is ^(AB)sexually immoral or unholy like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal. ¹⁷For you know that ^(AC)afterward, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no chance to repent, though he sought it with tears.

A Kingdom That Cannot Be Shaken

¹⁸For you have not come to ^(AD)what may be touched, a blazing fire and darkness and gloom and a tempest ¹⁹and ^(AE)the sound of a trumpet and a voice whose words ^(AF)made the hearers beg that no further messages be spoken to them. ²⁰For they could not endure the order that was given, ^(AG)“If even a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned.” ²¹Indeed, ^(AH)so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, “I tremble with fear.” ²²But you have come to ^(AI)Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, ^(AJ)the heavenly Jerusalem, and to ^(AK)innumerable angels in festal gathering, ²³and to ^(AL)the assembly^[a] of the firstborn who are ^(AM)enrolled in heaven, and to ^(AN)God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, ²⁴and to Jesus, ^(AO)the mediator of a new covenant, and to ^(AP)the sprinkled blood ^(AQ)that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.

²⁵See that you do not refuse him who is speaking. For ^(AR)if they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape if we reject him who warns from heaven. ²⁶At that time ^(AS)his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, ^(AT)“Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens.” ²⁷This phrase, “Yet once more,” indicates ^(AU)the removal of things that are shaken—that is, things that have been made—in order that the things that cannot be shaken may remain. ²⁸Therefore let us be grateful for receiving ^(AV)a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus ^(AW)let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, ²⁹for our ^(AX)God is a consuming fire.