Babylon Receives Egypt as Compensation

¹⁷ In the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me: ¹⁸ “Son of man, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon made his army labor strenuously against Tyre.^(A) Every head was made bald and every shoulder chafed, but he and his army received no compensation from Tyre for the labor he expended against it. ¹⁹ Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: I am going to give the land of Egypt to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon,^(B) and he will carry off its wealth, seizing its spoil and taking its plunder. This will be his army’s compensation. ²⁰ I have given him the land of Egypt as the pay he labored for, since they worked for me.” This is the declaration of the Lord God. ²¹ “In that day I will cause a horn to sprout^(C) for the house of Israel, and I will enable you to speak out^(D) among them. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”