Ezekiel 30

New American Standard Bible

Grief over Egypt

30 The word of the Lord came again to me, saying, ²“Son of man, prophesy and say, ‘This is what the Lord ^[a]God says:

“^(A)Wail, ‘Woe for the day!’
³For the day is near,
Indeed, ^(B)the day of the Lord is near;
It will be a day of ^(C)clouds,
A time of doom for the nations.
⁴A sword will come upon Egypt,
And there will be trembling in ^[b]Cush;
When the slain fall in Egypt,
They will ^(D)take away her ^[c]wealth,
And her foundations will be torn down.

⁵^[d]Cush, Put, Lud, all ^[e]^(E)Arabia, ^[f]Libya and the ^[g]people of the land ^[h]that is in league will fall with them by the sword.”

⁶‘This is what the Lord says:
“Indeed, those who support ^(F)Egypt will fall
And the pride of her power will come down;
From Migdol to Syene
They will fall within her by the sword,”
Declares the Lord God.
⁷“They will be desolate
In the ^(G)midst of the desolated lands;
And her cities will be
In the midst of the devastated cities.
⁸And they will ^(H)know that I am the Lord,
When I set a ^(I)fire in Egypt
And all her helpers are broken.

⁹On that day ^(J)messengers will go out from Me in ships to frighten ^(K)carefree ^[i]Cush; and ^(L)trembling will come on them as on the day of Egypt; for behold, it is coming!”

¹⁰‘This is what the Lord God says:

“^(M)I will also make the ^[j]hordes of Egypt cease
By the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.
¹¹He and his people with him,
^(N)The most ruthless of the nations,
Will be brought in to destroy the land;
And they will draw their swords against Egypt
And fill the land with the slain.
¹²Moreover, I will make the ^(O)Nile canals dry
And ^(P)sell the land into the hands of evil men.
And I will make the land desolate
And ^[k]all that is in it,
By the hand of strangers; I the Lord have spoken.”

¹³‘This is what the Lord God says:

“I will also ^(Q)destroy the idols
And make the ^[l]images cease from ^[m]^(R)Memphis.
And there will no longer be a prince in the land of Egypt;
And I will put fear in the land of Egypt.
¹⁴I will make ^(S)Pathros desolate,
Set a fire in ^(T)Zoan
And execute judgments on ^[n]^(U)Thebes.
¹⁵I will pour out My wrath on ^[o]Sin,
The stronghold of Egypt;
I will also eliminate the hordes of ^[p]Thebes.
¹⁶I will set a fire in Egypt;
^[q]Sin will writhe in anguish,
^[r]Thebes will be breached
And ^[s]Memphis will have ^[t]distresses daily.
¹⁷The young men of ^[u]^(V)On and of Pi-beseth
Will fall by the sword,
And ^[v]the women will go into captivity.
¹⁸In ^(W)Tehaphnehes the day will ^[w]be ^(X)dark
When I ^(Y)break there the yoke bars of Egypt.
Then the pride of her power will cease in her;
A cloud will cover her,
And her daughters will go into captivity.
¹⁹So I will ^(Z)execute judgments on Egypt,
And they will know that I am the Lord.”’”

Victory for Babylon

²⁰In the ^(AA)eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ²¹“Son of man, I have ^(AB)broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, behold, it has not been ^(AC)bound up ^[x]for healing ^[y]or wrapped with a bandage, so that it may be strong to wield the sword. ²²Therefore this is what the Lord God says: ‘Behold, I am ^(AD)against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and I will break his arms, both the strong and the ^(AE)broken; and I will make the sword ^(AF)fall from his hand. ²³And I will ^(AG)scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the lands. ²⁴For I will ^(AH)strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon and put ^(AI)My sword in his hand; and I will break the arms of Pharaoh, so that he will groan before him with the groans of a wounded man. ²⁵So I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, but the arms of Pharaoh will fail. Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I put My sword into the hand of the king of Babylon and he ^(AJ)reaches out with it against the land of Egypt. ²⁶When I scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the lands, then they will know that I am the Lord.’”

Footnotes

Ezekiel 30:2 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord, and so throughout the ch
Ezekiel 30:4 Or Ethiopia
Ezekiel 30:4 Or multitude
Ezekiel 30:5 Or Ethiopia
Ezekiel 30:5 Or the mixed people
Ezekiel 30:5 Or Cub
Ezekiel 30:5 Lit sons
Ezekiel 30:5 Lit of the covenant
Ezekiel 30:9 Or Ethiopia
Ezekiel 30:10 Or people; lit crowd, and so throughout the ch
Ezekiel 30:12 Lit her fullness
Ezekiel 30:13 Or futile ones
Ezekiel 30:13 Or Noph
Ezekiel 30:14 Or No
Ezekiel 30:15 Or Pelusium
Ezekiel 30:15 Or No
Ezekiel 30:16 Or Pelusium
Ezekiel 30:16 Or No
Ezekiel 30:16 Or Noph
Ezekiel 30:16 Or adversaries
Ezekiel 30:17 Or Aven
Ezekiel 30:17 Lit they
Ezekiel 30:18 As in many mss and ancient versions; MT restrain
Ezekiel 30:21 Lit to give healing
Ezekiel 30:21 Lit to wrap it

Psalm 78:40-72

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⁴⁰How often they ^(A)rebelled against Him in the wilderness
And ^(B)grieved Him in the ^(C)desert!
⁴¹Again and again they ^[a]^(D)tempted God,
And pained the ^(E)Holy One of Israel.
⁴²They ^(F)did not remember ^(G)His ^[b]power,
The day when He ^(H)redeemed them from the enemy,
⁴³When He performed His ^(I)signs in Egypt
And His ^(J)marvels in the field of Zoan,
⁴⁴And ^(K)turned their rivers to blood,
And their streams, so that they could not drink.
⁴⁵He sent swarms of ^(L)flies among them that devoured them,
And ^(M)frogs that destroyed them.
⁴⁶He also gave their crops to the ^(N)grasshopper
And the product of their labor to the ^(O)locust.
⁴⁷He ^[c]destroyed their vines with ^(P)hailstones
And their sycamore trees with frost.
⁴⁸He also turned their ^(Q)cattle over to the hailstones,
And their herds to bolts of lightning.
⁴⁹He ^(R)sent His burning anger upon them,
Fury and indignation and trouble,
A band of ^[d]destroying angels.
⁵⁰He leveled a path for His anger;
He did not spare their souls from death,
But ^(S)turned their lives over to the plague,
⁵¹And ^(T)struck all the firstborn in Egypt,
The ^(U)first and best of their vigor in the tents of ^(V)Ham.
⁵²But He ^(W)led His own people out like sheep,
And guided them in the wilderness ^(X)like a flock;
⁵³He led them ^(Y)safely, so that they did not fear;
But ^(Z)the sea engulfed their enemies.

⁵⁴So ^(AA)He brought them to His holy ^[e]land,
To this ^[f]^(AB)hill country ^(AC)which His right hand had gained.
⁵⁵He also ^(AD)drove out the nations from them
And ^(AE)apportioned them as an inheritance by measurement,
And had the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents.
⁵⁶Yet they ^[g]^(AF)tempted and ^(AG)rebelled against the Most High God
And did not keep His testimonies,
⁵⁷But turned back and ^(AH)acted treacherously like their fathers;
They ^(AI)turned aside like a treacherous bow.
⁵⁸For they ^(AJ)provoked Him with their ^(AK)high places
And ^(AL)moved Him to jealousy with their ^(AM)carved images.
⁵⁹When God heard them, He ^[h]was filled with ^(AN)wrath
And He utterly ^(AO)rejected Israel;
⁶⁰So that He ^(AP)abandoned the ^(AQ)dwelling place at Shiloh,
The tent ^[i]which He had pitched among people,
⁶¹And He gave up His ^(AR)strength to captivity
And His glory ^(AS)into the hand of the enemy.
⁶²He also ^(AT)turned His people over to the sword,
And ^[j]was filled with wrath at His inheritance.
⁶³^(AU)Fire devoured ^[k]His young men,
And ^[l]His ^(AV)virgins had no wedding songs.
⁶⁴^[m]His ^(AW)priests fell by the sword,
And ^[n]His ^(AX)widows could not weep.

⁶⁵Then the Lord ^(AY)awoke as if from sleep,
Like a ^(AZ)warrior ^[o]overcome by wine.
⁶⁶He ^[p]^(BA)drove His adversaries backward;
He put on them an everlasting disgrace.
⁶⁷He also ^(BB)rejected the tent of Joseph,
And did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,
⁶⁸But chose the tribe of Judah,
Mount ^(BC)Zion, which He loved.
⁶⁹And He ^(BD)built His sanctuary like the heights,
Like the earth which He has established forever.
⁷⁰He also ^(BE)chose His servant David
And took him from the sheepfolds;
⁷¹From ^[q]^(BF)the care of the ^[r]ewes ^(BG)with nursing lambs He brought him
To ^(BH)shepherd Jacob His people,
And Israel ^(BI)His inheritance.
⁷²So he shepherded them according to the ^(BJ)integrity of his heart,
And guided them with his skillful hands.