Egypt Given to Nebuchadnezzar

¹⁷ On the first day of the first month of the twenty-seventh year of our captivity,^[a] a message came to me from the Lord, who had this to say:

¹⁸ “Son of Man, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon made his army work very hard to attack Tyre. They tore their hair out and rubbed their shoulders raw! Despite all of that work trying to capture Tyre, neither he nor his army got paid from Tyre for all that! ¹⁹ Therefore this is what the Lord God says: ‘I’m going to give the land of Egypt to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. He’s going to carry off her wealth, confiscate her war implements, and use it all to pay wages for his army! ²⁰ I’ve given him the land of Egypt as a reward for attacking Tyre for me,’ declares the Lord God. ²¹ ‘When that day comes about, I’ll strengthen Israel’s military might, and I will give you an audience in their midst. Then they will know that I am the Lord.’”