speak, and say, Thus says the Lord God:

(A)“Behold, I am against you,
    Pharaoh king of Egypt,
(B)the great dragon that lies
    in the midst of his streams,
(C)that says, ‘My Nile is my own;
    I made it for myself.’

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(A)“Son of man, (B)raise a lamentation over (C)Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him:

“You consider yourself (D)a lion of the nations,
    but you are like (E)a dragon (F)in the seas;
(G)you burst forth in your rivers,
    trouble the waters with your feet,
    and foul their rivers.

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The Redemption of Israel

27 In that day the Lord with his hard and great and strong (A)sword will punish (B)Leviathan the fleeing serpent, (C)Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will slay (D)the dragon that is in the sea.

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30 Thus says the Lord, Behold, I will give (A)Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies (B)and into the hand of those who seek his life, as I gave (C)Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who was his enemy and sought his life.”

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And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great (A)red dragon, (B)with seven heads and (C)ten horns, and on his heads (D)seven diadems. His tail swept down (E)a third of the stars of heaven and (F)cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she bore her child (G)he might devour it.

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(A)Who can stand before his indignation?
    Who can endure the heat of his anger?
His wrath (B)is poured out like fire,
    and (C)the rocks are broken into pieces by him.

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30 and the king answered and said, (A)“Is not this great Babylon, which I have built by (B)my mighty power as a royal residence and for (C)the glory of my majesty?” 31 (D)While the words were still in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, “O King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: The kingdom has departed from you,

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and the land of Egypt shall be a desolation and a waste. (A)Then they will know that I am the Lord.

(B)“Because you[a] said, ‘The Nile is mine, and I made it,’ 10 therefore, (C)behold, I am against you and (D)against your streams, and (E)I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, (F)from Migdol to Syene, as far as the border of Cush.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 29:9 Hebrew he

22 and say, Thus says the Lord God:

“Behold, (A)I am against you, O Sidon,
    and (B)I will manifest my glory in your midst.
And (C)they shall know that I am the Lord
    (D)when I execute judgments in her
    and (E)manifest my holiness in her;

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(A)“Son of man, say to (B)the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord God:

(C)“Because your heart is proud,
    and (D)you have said, ‘I am a god,
I sit in the seat of the gods,
    in the heart of the seas,’
yet (E)you are but a man, and no god,
    (F)though you make your heart like the heart of a god—

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13 (A)For he says:

“By the strength of my hand I have done it,
    and by my wisdom, for I have understanding;
I remove the boundaries of peoples,
    and plunder their treasures;
    like a bull I bring down those who sit on thrones.
14 My hand has found like a nest
    the wealth of the peoples;
and as one gathers eggs that have been forsaken,
    so I have gathered all the earth;
and there was none that moved a wing
    or opened the mouth or chirped.”

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(A)But you, you are to be feared!
    Who can (B)stand before you
    when once your anger is roused?

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13 You (A)divided the sea by your might;
    you (B)broke the heads of (C)the sea monsters[a] on the waters.
14 You crushed the heads of (D)Leviathan;
    you gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 74:13 Or the great sea creatures

17 Beware (A)lest you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.’

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And he seized (A)the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and (B)bound him for a thousand years,

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13 And I saw, coming out of the mouth of (A)the dragon and out of the mouth of (B)the beast and out of the mouth of (C)the false prophet, three (D)unclean spirits like (E)frogs.

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The Second Beast

11 Then (A)I saw another beast rising out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon.

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And they worshiped the dragon, for he had given his authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, (A)“Who is like the beast, and who can fight against it?”

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And the beast that I saw was (A)like a leopard; its feet were like (B)a bear's, and its mouth was like (C)a lion's mouth. And to it (D)the dragon gave his power and (E)his throne and great authority.

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16 But the earth came to the help of the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed the river that the dragon had poured from his mouth. 17 Then the dragon became furious with the woman and went off (A)to make war on the rest of (B)her offspring, (C)on those who keep the commandments of God and hold to (D)the testimony of Jesus. And he stood[a] on the sand of the sea.

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 12:17 Some manuscripts And I stood, connecting the sentence with 13:1

(A)Awake, awake, (B)put on strength,
    O (C)arm of the Lord;
awake, (D)as in days of old,
    the generations of long ago.
Was it not you who cut (E)Rahab in pieces,
    who pierced (F)the dragon?

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