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30 The destruction of Egypt and the cities thereof.
1 The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the Lord God, Howl and cry, Woe be unto this day.
3 For the day is near, and the day of the Lord is at hand, a cloudy day, and it shall be the time of the heathen.
4 And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and fear shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, when they shall take away her multitude, and when her foundations shall be broken down.
5 [a]Ethiopia and Put, and Lud, and all the common people, and Chub, and the men of the land, that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword.
6 Thus saith the Lord, They also that maintain Egypt, shall fall, and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of [b]Syene shall they fall by the sword, saith the Lord God.
7 And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted.
8 And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and when all her helpers shall be destroyed.
9 In that day shall there messengers go forth from me in ships, to make the careless Moors afraid, and fear shall come upon them, as in the day of Egypt: for lo, it cometh.
10 Thus saith the Lord God, I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel.
11 For he and his people with him, even the terrible nations shall be brought to destroy the land: and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.
12 And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hands of the wicked, and I will make the land waste, and all that therein is by the hands of strangers: I the Lord have spoken it.
13 Thus saith the Lord God, I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause their idols to cease out of [c]Noph, and there shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt, and I will send a fear in the land of Egypt.
14 And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in [d]Zoan, and I will execute judgment in No.
15 And I will pour my wrath upon [e]Sin, which is the strength of Egypt: and I will destroy the multitude of [f]No.
16 And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall have great sorrow, and No shall be destroyed, and Noph shall have sorrows daily.
17 The young men of [g]Aven, and of [h]Pi Beseth shall fall by the sword: and these cities shall go into captivity.
18 At Tehaphnehes the day [i]shall restrain his light, when I shall break there the [j]bars of Egypt: and when the pomp of her power shall cease in her, the cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity.
19 Thus will I execute judgments in Egypt, and they shall know that I am the Lord.
20 ¶ And in the [k]eleventh year, in the first month, and in the seventh day of the month, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
21 Son of man, [l]I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt: and lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed, neither shall they put a roll to bind it, and so make it strong to hold the sword.
22 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I come against Pharaoh King of Egypt, and will break [m]his arm that was strong, but is broken, and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.
23 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.
24 And I will strengthen the arm of the king of Babel, and put my sword in his hand, but I will break Pharaoh’s arms, and he shall cast out sighings, as the sighings of him that is wounded before him.
25 But I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babel, and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down, and they shall know, that I am the Lord, [n]when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babel, and he shall stretch it out upon the land of Egypt.
26 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among the countries, and they shall know, that I am the Lord.
31 2 A comparison of the prosperity of Pharaoh with the prosperity of the Assyrians. 10 He prophesieth a like destruction to them both.
1 And in the [o]eleventh year, in the third month, and in the first day of the month the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude, Whom art thou [p]like in thy greatness?
3 Behold, Assyria was like a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with thick shadowing boughs, and shot up very high, and his top was among the thick boughs.
4 The waters nourished him, and the deep exalted him on high with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent out her [q]little rivers unto all the trees of the [r]field.
5 Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches were long, because of the multitude of the waters, which the deep sent out.
6 All the fowls of the heavens made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all mighty nations.
7 Thus was he fair in his greatness, and in the length of his branches: for his root was near great waters.
8 The cedars in the garden [s]of God could not hide him: no fir tree was like his branches: and the chestnut trees were not like his boughs: all the trees in the garden of God were not like unto him in his beauty.
9 I made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.
10 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Because [t]he is lifted up on high, and hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height,
11 I have therefore delivered him into the hands of the [u]mightiest among the heathen: he shall handle him, for I have cast him away for his wickedness.
12 And the strangers have destroyed him, even the terrible nations, and they have left him upon the mountains, and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are [v]broken by all the rivers of the land: and all the people of the earth are departed from his shadow, and have forsaken him.
13 Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches,
14 So that none of all the trees by the waters shall be exalted by their height, neither shall shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither shall their leaves stand up in their height, which drink so much water: for they are all delivered unto death in the nether parts of the earth in the midst of the children of men among them that go down to the pit.
15 Thus saith the Lord God, In the day when he went down to hell, I caused them to mourn, and I [w]covered the deep for him, and I did restrain the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted.
16 I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell, with them that descend into the pit, and all the excellent trees of Eden, and the best of Lebanon: even all that are nourished with waters, shall [x]be comforted in the nether parts of the earth.
17 They also went down to hell with him unto them that were slain with the sword, and his arm, and they that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen.
18 To whom [y]art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet thou shalt be cast down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt sleep in the midst of the [z]uncircumcised, with them that be slain by the sword: this is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord God.
32 2 The Prophet is commanded to bewail Pharaoh King of Egypt. 12 He prophesieth that destruction shall come unto Egypt through the King of Babylon.
1 And in the [aa]twelfth year in the twelfth month, and in the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a [ab]lion of the nations, and art as a [ac]dragon in the sea: thou castedst out thy rivers [ad]and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and stampedst in their rivers.
3 Thus saith the Lord God, (A)I will therefore spread my net over thee a great multitude of people, and they shall make thee come up into my net,
4 Then will I leave thee upon the land, and I will cast thee upon the open field, and I will cause all the fowls of the heaven to remain upon thee, and I will fill all the beasts of the field with thee.
5 And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys [ae]with thine height.
6 I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou [af]swimmest, even to the mountains, and the rivers shall be full of thee.
7 And when I shall [ag]put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark: (B)I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.
8 All the lights of heaven will I make dark for thee, and bring [ah]darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord God.
9 I will also trouble the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations, and upon the countries which thou hast not known.
10 Yea, I will make many people amazed at thee, and their kings shall be astonished with fear for thee, when I shall make my sword to glitter against their faces, and they shall be afraid at every moment: every man for his own life in the day of thy fall.
11 For thus saith the Lord God, The sword of the king of Babel shall come upon thee.
12 By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall: they all shall be terrible nations, and they shall destroy the [ai]pomp of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall be consumed.
13 I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from the great watersides, neither shall the foot of man trouble them anymore, nor the hooves of beasts trouble them.
14 Then will I make [aj]their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord God.
15 When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and the country with all that is therein, shall be laid waste: when I shall smite all them which dwell therein, then shall they know that I am the Lord.
16 This is the mourning wherewith they shall lament her: the daughters of the nations shall lament her: they shall lament for Egypt, and for all her multitude, saith the Lord God.
17 ¶ In the twelfth year also in the fifteenth day of the month, came the word of the Lord unto me, saying,
18 Son of man, lament for the multitude of Egypt, and [ak]cast them down, even them and the daughters of the mighty nations under the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.
19 Whom dost thou pass [al]in beauty? go down and sleep with the uncircumcised.
20 They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the sword: [am]she is delivered to the sword: draw her down, and all her multitude.
21 The most mighty and strong shall speak to [an]him out of the midst of hell with them that help her: they are gone down, and sleep with the uncircumcised that be slain by the sword.
22 Assyria is there and all his company: their graves are about him: all they are slain and fallen by the sword.
23 Whose graves are made in the side of the pit, and his multitude are round about his grave: all they are slain and fallen by the sword, which caused fear to be in the land of the living.
24 There is [ao]Elam and all his multitude round about his grave: all they are slain and fallen by the sword, which are gone down with the uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which caused themselves to be feared in the land of the [ap]living, yet have they borne their shame with them that are gone down to the pit.
25 They have made his bed in the midst of the slain with all his multitude: their graves are round about him: all these uncircumcised are slain by the sword: though they have caused their fear in the land of the living, yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit: they are laid in the midst of them that be slain.
26 There is [aq]Meshech, Tubal, and all their multitude: their graves are round about them: all these uncircumcised were slain by the sword, though they caused their fear to be in the land of the living.
27 And they shall not lie with the valiant [ar]of the uncircumcised, that are fallen, which are gone down to the grave with their weapons of war, and have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquity shall be upon their bones: because they were the fear of the mighty in the land of the living.
28 Yea, thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and lie with them that are slain by the sword.
29 There is Edom, his kings, and all his princes, which with their strength are laid by them that were slain by the sword: they shall sleep with the uncircumcised, and with them that go down to the pit.
30 There be all the princes of the [as]North, with all the Sidonians, which are gone down with the slain, with their fear: they are ashamed of their strength, and the uncircumcised sleep with them that be slain by the sword, and bear their shame with them that go down to the pit.
31 Pharaoh shall see them, and he shall be [at]comforted over all his multitude: Pharaoh, and all his army shall be slain by the sword, saith the Lord God.
32 For I have caused my [au]fear to be in the land of the living: and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with them, that are slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord God.
4 1 He bringeth in Christ’s example, and applieth it, 6 to the mortifying of the flesh, especially commending Charity: 12 And so entreateth of patience. 19 That it is necessary that correction begin at the Church.
1 Forasmuch [a]then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind, which is, that he which hath suffered in the flesh, hath ceased from sin,
2 That he hence forward should live (as much time as [b]remaineth in the flesh) not after the lusts of men, but after the will of God.
3 (A)[c]For it is sufficient for us that we have spent the time past of the life, after the lust [d]of the Gentiles walking in wantonness, lusts, drunkenness, in gluttony, drinkings, and in abominable idolatries.
4 [e]Wherein it seemeth to them [f]strange, that ye run not with them unto the same excess of riot: therefore speak they evil of you.
5 Which shall give account to him, that is ready to judge quick and dead.
6 [g]For unto this purpose was the Gospel preached also unto the dead, that they might be condemned according to men in the flesh, but might live according to God in the spirit.
7 [h]Now the end of all things is at hand. Be ye therefore sober, and watching in prayer.
8 [i]But above all things have fervent love among you: (B)for love shall cover the multitude of sins.
9 [j]Be ye (C)harberous one to another, without grudging.
10 [k](D)Let every man as he hath received the gift, minister the same one to another, [l]as good disposers of the manifold grace of God.
11 [m]If any man speak, let him speak as the words of God. If any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God ministereth, that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom is praise and dominion forever, and ever, Amen.
12 [n]Dearly beloved, think it not [o]strange [p]concerning the fiery trial, which is among you to prove you as though some strange thing were come unto you.
13 [q]But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, that when his glory shall appear, ye may be glad and rejoice.
14 (E)[r]If ye be railed upon for the Name of Christ, blessed are ye: for the [s]spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: which on their part is evil spoken of, but on your part is glorified.
15 [t]But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or an evil doer, or as a busybody in other men’s matters.
16 But if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed: but let him glorify God in this behalf.
17 [u]For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God. [v]If it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them which obey not the Gospel of God?
18 (F)And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
19 [w]Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God, commit their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.
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