Jeremiah 25:19

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¹⁹Pharaoh king of Egypt, his servants, his princes, and all his people;

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Nahum 3:8-10

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⁸^(A)Are you better than ^(B)No^[a] Amon
That was situated by the ^[b]River,
That had the waters around her,
Whose rampart was the sea,
Whose wall was the sea?
⁹Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength,
And it was boundless;
^(C)Put and Lubim were ^[c]your helpers.
¹⁰Yet she was carried away,
She went into captivity;
^(D)Her young children also were dashed to pieces
^(E)At the head of every street;
They ^(F)cast lots for her honorable men,
And all her great men were bound in chains.

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Nahum 3:8 Ancient Thebes; Tg., Vg. populous Alexandria
Nahum 3:8 Lit. rivers, the Nile and the surrounding canals
Nahum 3:9 LXX her

Jeremiah 46:13-26

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Babylonia Will Strike Egypt

¹³The word that the Lord spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, how Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon would come and ^(A)strike the land of Egypt.

¹⁴“Declare in Egypt, and proclaim in ^(B)Migdol;
Proclaim in ^[a]Noph and in ^(C)Tahpanhes;
Say, ‘Stand fast and prepare yourselves,
For the sword devours all around you.’
¹⁵Why are your valiant men swept away?
They did not stand
Because the Lord drove them away.
¹⁶He made many fall;
Yes, ^(D)one fell upon another.
And they said, ‘Arise!
^(E)Let us go back to our own people
And to the land of our nativity
From the oppressing sword.’
¹⁷They cried there,
‘Pharaoh, king of Egypt, is but a noise.
He has passed by the appointed time!’

¹⁸“As I live,” says the King,
^(F)Whose name is the Lord of hosts,
“Surely as Tabor is among the mountains
And as Carmel by the sea, so he shall come.
¹⁹O ^(G)you daughter dwelling in Egypt,
Prepare yourself ^(H)to go into captivity!
For ^[b]Noph shall be waste and desolate, without inhabitant.

²⁰“Egypt is a very pretty ^(I)heifer,
But destruction comes, it comes ^(J)from the north.
²¹Also her mercenaries are in her midst like ^[c]fat bulls,
For they also are turned back,
They have fled away together.
They did not stand,
For ^(K)the day of their calamity had come upon them,
The time of their punishment.
²²^(L)Her noise shall go like a serpent,
For they shall march with an army
And come against her with axes,
Like those who chop wood.

²³“They shall ^(M)cut down her forest,” says the Lord,
“Though it cannot be searched,
Because they are innumerable,
And more numerous than ^(N)grasshoppers.
²⁴The daughter of Egypt shall be ashamed;
She shall be delivered into the hand
Of ^(O)the people of the north.”

²⁵The Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will bring punishment on ^[d]Amon of ^(P)No,^[e] and Pharaoh and Egypt, ^(Q)with their gods and their kings—Pharaoh and those who ^(R)trust in him. ²⁶^(S)And I will deliver them into the hand of those who seek their lives, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and the hand of his servants. ^(T)Afterward it shall be inhabited as in the days of old,” says the Lord.

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Jeremiah 46:14 Ancient Memphis
Jeremiah 46:19 Ancient Memphis
Jeremiah 46:21 Lit. calves of the stall
Jeremiah 46:25 A sun god
Jeremiah 46:25 Ancient Thebes

Jeremiah 46:2

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²Against ^(A)Egypt.

^(B)Concerning the army of Pharaoh Necho, king of Egypt, which was by the River Euphrates in Carchemish, and which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon ^(C)defeated in the ^(D)fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:

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Ezekiel 29

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Proclamation Against Egypt

29 In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ²“Son of man, ^(A)set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and ^(B)against all Egypt. ³Speak, and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God:

^(C)“Behold, I am against you,
O Pharaoh king of Egypt,
O great ^(D)monster who lies in the midst of his rivers,
^(E)Who has said, ‘My ^[a]River is my own;
I have made it for myself.’
⁴But ^(F)I will put hooks in your jaws,
And cause the fish of your rivers to stick to your scales;
I will bring you up out of the midst of your rivers,
And all the fish in your rivers will stick to your scales.
⁵I will leave you in the wilderness,
You and all the fish of your rivers;
You shall fall on the ^[b]open ^(G)field;
^(H)You shall not be picked up or ^[c]gathered.
^(I)I have given you as food
To the beasts of the field
And to the birds of the heavens.

⁶“Then all the inhabitants of Egypt
Shall know that I am the Lord,
Because they have been a ^(J)staff of reed to the house of Israel.
⁷^(K)When they took hold of you with the hand,
You broke and tore all their ^[d]shoulders;
When they leaned on you,
You broke and made all their backs quiver.”

⁸‘Therefore thus says the Lord God: “Surely I will bring ^(L)a sword upon you and cut off from you man and beast. ⁹And the land of Egypt shall become ^(M)desolate and waste; then they will know that I am the Lord, because he said, ‘The River is mine, and I have made it.’ ¹⁰Indeed, therefore, I am against you and against your rivers, ^(N)and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, ^(O)from ^[e]Migdol to Syene, as far as the border of Ethiopia. ¹¹^(P)Neither foot of man shall pass through it nor foot of beast pass through it, and it shall be uninhabited forty years. ¹²^(Q)I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate; and among the cities that are laid waste, her cities shall be desolate forty years; and I will ^(R)scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them throughout the countries.”

¹³‘Yet, thus says the Lord God: “At the ^(S)end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples among whom they were scattered. ¹⁴I will bring back the captives of Egypt and cause them to return to the land of Pathros, to the land of their origin, and there they shall be a ^(T)lowly kingdom. ¹⁵It shall be the lowliest of kingdoms; it shall never again exalt itself above the nations, for I will diminish them so that they will not rule over the nations anymore. ¹⁶No longer shall it be ^(U)the confidence of the house of Israel, but will remind them of their iniquity when they turned to follow them. Then they shall know that I am the Lord God.” ’ ”

Babylonia Will Plunder Egypt

¹⁷And it came to pass in the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ¹⁸“Son of man, ^(V)Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to labor strenuously against Tyre; every head was made ^(W)bald, and every shoulder rubbed raw; yet neither he nor his army received wages from Tyre, for the labor which they expended on it. ¹⁹Therefore thus says the Lord God: ‘Surely I will give the land of Egypt to ^(X)Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; he shall take away her wealth, carry off her spoil, and remove her pillage; and that will be the wages for his army. ²⁰I have given him the land of Egypt for his labor, because they ^(Y)worked for Me,’ says the Lord God.

²¹‘In that day ^(Z)I will cause the ^[f]horn of the house of Israel to spring forth, and I will ^(AA)open your mouth to speak in their midst. Then they shall know that I am the Lord.’ ”

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Ezekiel 29:3 The Nile
Ezekiel 29:5 Lit. face of the field
Ezekiel 29:5 So with MT, LXX, Vg.; some Heb. mss., Tg. buried
Ezekiel 29:7 So with MT, Vg.; LXX, Syr. hand
Ezekiel 29:10 Or the tower
Ezekiel 29:21 Strength

Jeremiah 43:9-11

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⁹“Take large stones in your hand, and hide them in the sight of the men of Judah, in the ^[a]clay in the brick courtyard which is at the entrance to Pharaoh’s house in Tahpanhes; ¹⁰and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Behold, I will send and bring Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, ^(A)My servant, and will set his throne above these stones that I have hidden. And he will spread his royal pavilion over them. ¹¹^(B)When he comes, he shall strike the land of Egypt and deliver to death ^(C)those appointed for death, and to captivity those appointed for captivity, and to the sword those appointed for the sword.