Pharaoh’s Arms Are Broken

²⁰ In the eleventh year, in the first month on the seventh day, the word of the Lord came to me:^{(A) 21} “Son of man, I have broken the arm^(B) of Pharaoh^(C) king of Egypt. It has not been bound up to be healed^(D) or put in a splint so that it may become strong enough to hold a sword. ²² Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt.^(E) I will break both his arms, the good arm as well as the broken one, and make the sword fall from his hand.^{(F) 23} I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them through the countries.^{(G) 24} I will strengthen^(H) the arms of the king of Babylon and put my sword^(I) in his hand, but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan^(J) before him like a mortally wounded man. ²⁵ I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, but the arms of Pharaoh will fall limp. Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I put my sword^(K) into the hand of the king of Babylon and he brandishes it against Egypt.^{(L) 26} I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them through the countries. Then they will know that I am the Lord.^(M)”