Ezekiel 29:1-5
Evangelical Heritage Version
An Oracle Against Egypt
29 In the tenth year in the tenth month,[a] on the twelfth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me.
2 Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and prophesy against him and against all Egypt. 3 Speak and tell them that this is what the Lord God says.
I am against you, Pharaoh, king of Egypt, the great monster who stretches out in the channels[b] of the Nile. You say, “It is my Nile. I made it for myself.” 4 But I, the Lord, will put hooks in your jaws and make the fish of your Nile stick to your scales. I will haul you up from the middle of your Nile with all the fish from the Nile clinging to your scales. 5 I will leave you in the wilderness—you and all the fish of your Nile. You will lie fallen on the surface of the ground. You will not be collected or gathered up.[c] I will give you as food to the wild animals of the earth and to the birds of the air.
Footnotes
- Ezekiel 29:1 During the winter of 587 bc, before the fall of Jerusalem
- Ezekiel 29:3 Or branches
- Ezekiel 29:5 Some Hebrew manuscripts and versions read collected and buried.
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