Chronological
Pride for Tyre
28 The word of Adonai came to me saying: 2 “Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, thus says Adonai Elohim:
‘So your heart is exalted
and you say, “I am a god!
I sit in the seat of the gods
in the heart of the seas!”
Yet you are human, not a god,
even if you set up your heart like the heart of a god.
3 See, you are wiser than Daniel!
No secret is hidden from you!
4 By your wisdom and by understanding
you have made wealth for yourself
and have gathered gold and silver
into your treasuries.
5 In your great skill, by your trade,
you have increased your wealth,
so your heart is exalted
by your wealth.’”
6 Therefore thus says Adonai Elohim:
“Because you have set up your heart
like the heart of God,
7 behold, I will bring strangers against you,
the ruthless of the nations.
They will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom.
They will defile your splendor.
8 They will bring you down to the Pit.
You will die the death of those slain
in the heart of the seas.
9 Will you still say, ‘I am a god’
before the one who slays you?
Yet you are man, and not a god,
in the hand of those who pierce you.
10 You will die the deaths of the uncircumcised
at the hand of strangers.
For I have spoken.”
It is a declaration of Adonai.
Lament for Tyre
11 The word of Adonai came to me saying: 12 “Son of man, lift up a lament for the king of Tyre. Say to him, thus says Adonai Elohim:
‘You were the seal of perfection,
full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
13 You were in Eden, the garden of God.
Every precious stone was your covering
—ruby, topaz and diamond, beryl, onyx
and jasper, sapphire, turquoise and emerald—
your settings and your sockets a workmanship of gold
—in the day you were created they were prepared.
14 You were an anointed guardian cheruv.
I placed you on the holy mountain of God.
You walked among stones of fire.
15 You were perfect in your ways
from the day that you were created,
until unrighteousness was found in you.
16 By the abundance of your trade
they filled you within with violence.
So you have sinned.
So I threw you out as a profane thing
from the mountain of God.
I made you vanish, guardian cheruv,
from among the stones of fire.
17 Your heart was exalted because of your beauty.
You corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor.
I threw you down to the earth.[a]
Before kings I set you up as a spectacle.
18 “‘By the multitude of your iniquities,
in the injustice of your trade,
you profaned your sanctuaries.
So I brought fire out from within you,
and it has consumed you.
I have turned you to ashes on the earth
in the eyes of all who saw you.
19 All who know you among the people
will be appalled at you.
You have become a horror
and will be nothing forever.’”
20 The word of Adonai came to me saying: 21 “Son of man, set your face toward Sidon and prophesy against her. 22 Say, thus says Adonai Elohim:
‘Behold, I am against you, Zidon. I will be glorified in your midst. They will know that I am Adonai, when I execute judgments in her, and show my holiness through her. 23 I will send a plague to her and blood in her streets. The wounded will fall in her midst by the sword on every side. So they will know that I am Adonai.’
24 “Never again will there be a briar pricking at the house of Israel or a piercing thorn from any around them who scorn them. They will know that I am the Lord Adonai.”
25 Thus says Adonai Elohim: “When I have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered and show my holiness through them in the eyes of the nations, then they will live in their own land which I gave to My servant Jacob. 26 They will live safely there, and they will build houses and plant vineyards. They will live securely when I have executed judgments on all those around them that treated them with contempt. So they will know that I am Adonai their God.”
Prophecy Against Egypt
29 On the twelfth day of the tenth month of the tenth year, the word of Adonai came to me saying: 2 “Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt. Prophesy against him and against all Egypt, 3 speak and say, thus says Adonai Elohim:
‘Behold, I am against you,
Pharaoh King of Egypt,
the great crocodile lying in his rivers,
who says:
“My Nile is my own
—I made it for myself.”
4 I will put hooks in your jaws and
make the fish of your streams stick
to your scales.
I will haul you up from within your rivers
and all the fish of your streams will stick
to your scales.
5 I will leave you in the desert
—you and all the fish of your streams.
You will fall on the open field.
You will not be gathered or picked up.
I will give you as food for the beasts
of the earth and the birds of the sky.
6 Then all the inhabitants of Egypt
will know that I am Adonai,
because they were a staff of reed
to the house of Israel.
7 When they took hold of you by the hand,
you snapped and tore all their shoulders.
When they leaned on you,
you broke and wrenched all their hips.’”
8 Therefore thus says Adonai Elohim: “Behold, I will bring a sword against you. I will cut off from you man and beast. 9 The land of Egypt will become desolate and waste. Then they will know that I am Adonai. Because he said, ‘The Nile is mine—I made it!’ 10 therefore behold, I am against you and against your rivers. I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from Migdol to Syene, as far as the border of Ethiopia. 11 No human foot will pass through it, and no foot of beast will pass through it. It will be uninhabited for 40 years. 12 I will make the land of Egypt a desolation among devastated countries. Her cities will be a desolation 40 years among ruined cities. I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them throughout the countries.”
13 For thus says Adonai Elohim: “At the end of 40 years, I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples where they were scattered. 14 I will restore the fortunes of Egypt. I will cause them to return to the land of Pathros, the land of their origin. But they will be a lowly kingdom there. 15 It will be the lowliest of the kingdoms. It will no longer exalt itself above the nations. I will diminish them, so that they no longer rule over the nations. 16 It will no longer be as security for the house of Israel, bringing to mind the iniquity of their turning after them. So they will know that I am Adonai.”
17 On the first day of the first month of the twenty-seventh year, the word of Adonai came to me saying: 18 “Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made his army labor hard against Tyre. Every head became bald and every shoulder chafed. But he and his army had no profit from Tyre for the labor that he had expended against it.”
19 Therefore thus says Adonai Elohim: “Behold, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. He will carry off her abundance, take her spoil and take her prey. It will be the wages for his army. 20 I have given him the land of Egypt as his wages for which he served, because they worked for Me.” It is a declaration of Adonai.
Messianic Horn
21 “In that day I will cause a horn to shoot up for the house of Israel. I will open your mouth among them. They will know that I am Adonai.”
Doom of Egypt
30 The word of Adonai came to me saying: 2 “Son of man, prophesy, and say, thus says Adonai Elohim:
‘Wail, alas, for the day!
3 For the day is near,
the day of Adonai is near,
a day of clouds,
a time for the nations.
4 A sword will come against Egypt.
Anguish will be in Ethiopia
when the slain fall in Egypt.
They will take away her abundance.
Her foundations will be torn down.
5 Ethiopia, Put and Lud, all the mixed people, Libya, and children of the covenant land will fall with them by the sword.’”
6 Thus says Adonai Elohim:
“Those who support Egypt will fall.
The pride of her power will collapse.
From Migdol to Syene
they will fall within her by the sword.”
It is a declaration of Adonai.
7 “They will be desolate among desolate lands.
Her cities will be among ruined cities.
8 They will know that I am Adonai,
when I have set a fire in Egypt
and all her supporters are destroyed.
9 “On that day, messengers will go out from before Me in ships to frighten Ethiopians out of complacency. Anguish will come on them as on the day of Egypt—for, behold, it is coming!”
10 Thus says Adonai Elohim: “I will put away the pomp of Egypt by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon. 11 He and his people with him, the ruthless of the nations, will be brought in to destroy the land. They will draw their swords against Egypt and fill the land with the slain. 12 I will make the rivers dry. I will sell the land into the hand of evildoers. I will make the land desolate, and all that is in it, by the hand of strangers. I, Adonai, have spoken it.”
13 Thus says Adonai Elohim:
“I will destroy the idols.
I will destroy the pagan gods from Noph.[b]
There will no longer be a prince in the land of Egypt.
I will strike terror in the land of Egypt.
14 I will make Pathros desolate.
I will set a fire in Zoan.
I will execute judgments in No.[c]
15 I will pour My fury on Sin,
the stronghold of Egypt.
I will cut off the multitude of No.
16 I will set a fire in Egypt.
Sin will writhe in anguish.
No will be assaulted.
Noph will face enemies daily.
17 The young men of Aven and Pi-beseth will fall by the sword
and the women will go into captivity.
18 In Tehaphnehes the day will grow dark
when I break the yokes of Egypt there.
The pride of her power will cease in her
—a cloud will cover her.
Her daughters will go into captivity.
19 So I will execute judgments in Egypt,
and they will know that I am Adonai.”
20 On the seventh day of the first month of the eleventh year, the word of Adonai came to me saying: 21 “Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Behold, it has not been bound up to be healed or put in a splint, so that it is wrapped up with a bandage, to grow strong to wield the sword.”
22 Therefore thus says Adonai Elohim: “I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt. I will break his arms, the strong one and the one that was broken. I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand. 23 I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them throughout the countries. 24 I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon and put My sword into his hand. I will break the arms of Pharaoh, so he will groan before him like a fatally wounded man. 25 I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, but Pharaoh’s arms will fall. So they will know that I am Adonai when I put My sword into the hand of the king of Babylon and he stretches it out against the land of Egypt. 26 I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them through the countries. Then they will know that I am Adonai.”
Fall of the Haughty Cedar
31 On the first day of the third month of the eleventh year, the word of Adonai came to me saying: 2 “Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his multitude:
‘Who is like you in your greatness?
3 Behold, Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon,
with beautiful branches shadowing the forest,
of lofty height.
Its top was in leafy branches.
4 Water nourished it,
the deep made it tall,
with its rivers going around its planting
as it sent out its water-courses
to all the trees of the field.
5 Therefore its height was loftier
than all the trees of the field.
Its branches multiplied
and its boughs became long
because of the abundant water in its shoots.
6 All the birds of the sky nested in its branches.
All the beasts of the field gave birth to their young under its branches.
All great nations lived under its shade.
7 It was beautiful in its greatness,
in the length of its branches,
for its root was in abundant water.
8 The cedars in the garden of God
could not compare with it.
No cypress trees could rival its boughs.
No plane-trees could match its branches.
No tree in the garden of God
could compare to its beauty.
9 I made it beautiful with its many limbs.
All the trees of Eden in God’s garden envied it.’”
10 Therefore thus says Adonai Elohim:
“Because you were exalted in height
—its top set up among leafy branches,
its heart haughty in its height—
11 I gave it into the hand of a ruler of nations,
who surely dealt with it.
I drove it out
as befits its wickedness.
12 Ruthless barbarians from the nations cut it down. They cast it down on the mountains and in all the valleys its branches fell. Its branches have laid broken in all the streambeds of the land. All the people of the earth have come out from its shade and abandoned it.
13 All the birds of the sky lived on its fallen trunk and all the beasts of the field upon its fallen branches.
14 So none of all the trees by the water should exalt themselves in their height or set their top among the leafy boughs. None of their well-watered mighty ones should attain their height.
For they have all been given to death, to the lowest regions under the earth, among the children of men who go down to the Pit.”
15 Thus says Adonai Elohim:
“In the day when he went down to Sheol
I caused the deep to mourn
and cover itself for him.
I restrained his rivers,
so the great waters were stopped.
I made Lebanon mourn for him.
All the trees of the field wilt away for it.
16 I made the nations tremble at the sound of its fall,
when I cast him down to Sheol with those who descend into the Pit.
All the well-watered trees of Eden,
the choice and best of Lebanon,
were comforted in the lowest parts of the earth.
17 They also went down with him to Sheol,
to those slain by the sword,
those who were his mighty arm,
who lived in his shadow among the nations.
18 ‘Who is like you in glory and greatness among the trees of Eden? You will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lowest parts of the earth. You will lie among the uncircumcised, with those slain by the sword.’
This is Pharaoh and all his multitude.”
It is a declaration of Adonai.
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