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“For this is what the Lord says:
All of Egypt’s allies will fall,
    and the pride of her power will end.
From Migdol to Aswan[a]
    they will be slaughtered by the sword,
    says the Sovereign Lord.
Egypt will be desolate,
    surrounded by desolate nations,
and its cities will be in ruins,
    surrounded by other ruined cities.
And the people of Egypt will know that I am the Lord
    when I have set Egypt on fire
    and destroyed all their allies.
At that time I will send swift messengers in ships
    to terrify the complacent Ethiopians.
Great panic will come upon them
    on that day of Egypt’s certain destruction.
Watch for it!
    It is sure to come!

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  1. 30:6 Hebrew to Syene.

This is what the Lord says:
Those who support Egypt will fall,
and its proud strength will collapse.
From Migdol to Syene
they will fall within it by the sword.
This is the declaration of the Lord God.
They will be desolate
among[a] desolate lands,
and their cities will lie
among ruined[b] cities.(A)
They will know that I am the Lord
when I set fire to Egypt(B)
and all its allies are shattered.

On that day, messengers will go out from me in ships(C) to terrify confident Cush. Anguish will come over them on the day of Egypt’s doom.[c] For indeed it is coming.

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Footnotes

  1. 30:7 Or be the most desolate of
  2. 30:7 Or will be the most ruined of
  3. 30:9 Lit of Egypt