Ezekiel 30:1-5
English Standard Version
A Lament for Egypt
30 The word of the Lord came to me: 2 (A)“Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord God:
(B)“Wail, ‘Alas for the day!’
3 (C)For the day is near,
(D)the day of the Lord is near;
it will be (E)a day of clouds,
a time of doom for[a] the nations.
4 (F)A sword shall come upon Egypt,
(G)and anguish shall be in (H)Cush,
when the slain fall in Egypt,
and (I)her wealth[b] is carried away,
and (J)her foundations are torn down.
5 (K)Cush, and (L)Put, and Lud, and (M)all Arabia, and Libya,[c] and the people of the land that is in league,[d] shall fall with them by the sword.
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- Ezekiel 30:3 Hebrew lacks doom for
- Ezekiel 30:4 Or multitude; also verse 10
- Ezekiel 30:5 With Septuagint; Hebrew Cub
- Ezekiel 30:5 Hebrew and the sons of the land of the covenant
Ezekiel 30:1-5
International Standard Version
The Day of the Lord
30 Another message came to me from the Lord, who had this to say:
2 “Son of Man, here’s what you are to prophesy and announce,
‘This is what the Lord God says:
“Wail out loud!
Oh no! The day!
3 For comes now the day—
comes now the Day of the Lord,
the day of clouds!
The time of the gentiles[a] is fulfilled![b]
4 War[c] will come to Egypt,
and Ethiopia will be in anguish
when the slain fall in Egypt,
when her wealth is carried off,
and her foundations are demolished.
5 “Ethiopia,[d] Libya,[e] descendants of[f] Lud,[g] all those who have mixed themselves,[h] and Libya[i]—along with everyone in the land of Israel who is in league[j] with them—will die violently.”’”[k]
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- Ezekiel 30:3 Or nations
- Ezekiel 30:3 Or gentiles shall come to pass; or It shall be the time of judgment for the gentiles
- Ezekiel 30:4 Lit. The sword
- Ezekiel 30:5 Lit. Cush; the Heb. name means black
- Ezekiel 30:5 Lit. Put; the Heb. name means bow
- Ezekiel 30:5 The Heb. lacks descendants of
- Ezekiel 30:5 I.e., the fourth son of Shem, progenitor of the Lydians. The Heb. name Lud means strife.
- Ezekiel 30:5 So LXX; cf. Dan 2:43; MT reads all the twilight
- Ezekiel 30:5 Lit. Chub; the Heb. means horde
- Ezekiel 30:5 Or who have joined in a covenant
- Ezekiel 30:5 Lit. will fall by the sword
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