A Lament for Egypt

Ezekiel 30

1 The word of the LORD came to me again, saying,

2 "Son of man, prophesy and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD:
a "Wail, 'Woe to the day!' 3 For b the day is near,
Even the day of the LORD is near;
It will be a day of clouds, the time of the Gentiles. 4 The sword shall come upon Egypt,
And great anguish shall be in 1 Ethiopia,
When the slain fall in Egypt,
And they c take away her wealth,
And d her foundations are broken down.

5 "Ethiopia, 2 Libya, 3 Lydia, e all the mingled people, Chub, and the men of the lands who are allied, shall fall with them by the sword."

6 'Thus says the LORD:
"Those who uphold Egypt shall fall,
And the pride of her power shall come down.
f From 4 Migdol to Syene
Those within her shall fall by the sword,"
Says the Lord GOD. 7 "They g shall be desolate in the midst of the desolate countries,
And her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are laid waste. 8 Then they will know that I am the LORD,
When I have set a fire in Egypt
And all her helpers are destroyed.

9 On that day h messengers shall go forth from Me in ships
To make the 5 careless Ethiopians afraid,
And great anguish shall come upon them,
As on the day of Egypt;
For indeed it is coming!"

10 'Thus says the Lord GOD:
i "I will also make a multitude of Egypt to cease
By the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.
11 He and his people with him, j the most terrible of the nations,
Shall be brought to destroy the land;
They shall draw their swords against Egypt,
And fill the land with the slain. 12 k I will make the rivers dry,
And l sell the land into the hand of the wicked;
I will make the land waste, and all that is in it,
By the hand of aliens.
I, the LORD, have spoken."

13 'Thus says the Lord GOD:
"I will also m destroy the idols,
And cause the images to cease from 6 Noph; 7
n There shall no longer be princes from the land of Egypt;
o I will put fear in the land of Egypt. 14 I will make p Pathros desolate,
Set fire to q Zoan,
r And execute judgments in 8 No. 9 15 I will pour My fury on 10 Sin, 11 the strength of Egypt;
s I will cut off the multitude of 12 No, 16 And t set a fire in Egypt;
Sin shall have great pain,
No shall be split open,
And Noph shall be in distress daily. 17 The young men of 13 Aven 14 and Pi Beseth shall fall by the sword,
And these cities shall go into captivity. 18 u At 15 Tehaphnehes the day shall also be 16 darkened,
When I break the yokes of Egypt there.
And her arrogant strength shall cease in her;
As for her, a cloud shall cover her,
And her daughters shall go into captivity. 19 Thus I will v execute judgments on Egypt,
Then they shall know that I am the LORD." ' "

  1. Cross References
    Isaiah 13:6
    Wail, for the day of the LORD is at hand! It wi...
    Isaiah 15:2
    He has gone up to the temple and Dibon, To the ...
    Ezekiel 21:12
    Cry and wail, son of man; For it will be agains...
    Joel 1:5
    Awake, you drunkards, and weep; And wail, all y...
    Joel 1:11
    Be ashamed, you farmers, Wail, you vinedressers...
    Joel 1:13
    Gird yourselves and lament, you priests; Wail, ...
  2. Cross References
    Ezekiel 7:7
    Doom has come to you, you who dwell in the land; The time has come, A day of trouble is near, And not of rejoicing in the mountains.
    Ezekiel 7:12
    The time has come, The day draws near. 'Let not the buyer rejoice, Nor the seller mourn, For wrath is on their whole multitude.
    Joel 2:1
    Blow the trumpet in Zion, And sound an alarm in My holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble; For the day of the LORD is coming, For it is at hand:
    Zephaniah 1:7
    Be silent in the presence of the Lord GOD; For the day of the LORD is at hand, For the LORD has prepared a sacrifice; He has invited His guests.
  3. Cross References
    Ezekiel 29:19
    Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: 'Surely I will give the land of Egypt to 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.
  4. Cross References
    Jeremiah 50:15
    Shout against her all around; She has given her hand, Her foundations have fallen, Her walls are thrown down; For it is the vengeance of the LORD. Take vengeance on her. As she has done, so do to her.
  5. Cross References
    Jeremiah 25:20
    All the mixed multitude, all the kings of the land of Uz, all the kings of the land of the Philistines (namely, Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod).
    Jeremiah 25:24
    All the kings of Arabia and all the kings of the mixed multitude who dwell in the desert.
  6. Cross References
    Ezekiel 29:10
    Indeed, therefore, I am against you and against your rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from Migdol to Syene, as far as the border of Ethiopia.
  7. Cross References
    Jeremiah 25:18 - 26
    Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and its princes, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is this day.
    Ezekiel 29:12
    "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 scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them throughout the countries."
  8. Cross References
    Isaiah 18:1
    Woe to the land shadowed with buzzing wings, Which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia.
    Isaiah 18:2
    Which sends ambassadors by sea, Even in vessels of reed on the waters, saying, "Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth of skin, To a people terrible from their beginning onward, A nation powerful and treading down, Whose land the rivers divide.
  9. Cross References
    Ezekiel 29:19
    Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: 'Surely I will give the land of Egypt to 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.
  10. Cross References
    Ezekiel 28:7
    Behold, therefore, I will bring strangers against you, The most terrible of the nations; And they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom, And defile your splendor.
    Ezekiel 31:12
    And aliens, the most terrible of the nations, have cut it down and left it; its branches have fallen on the mountains and in all the valleys; its boughs lie broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the peoples of the earth have gone from under its shadow and left it.
  11. Cross References
    Isaiah 19:5
    The waters will fail from the sea, And the river will be wasted and dried up.
    Isaiah 19:6
    The rivers will turn foul; The brooks of defense will be emptied and dried up; The reeds and rushes will wither.
  12. Cross References
    Isaiah 19:4
    And the Egyptians I will give Into the hand of a cruel master, And a fierce king will rule over them," Says the Lord, the LORD of hosts.
  13. Cross References
    Isaiah 19:1
    The burden against Egypt. Behold, the LORD rides on a swift cloud, And will come into Egypt; The idols of Egypt will totter at His presence, And the heart of Egypt will melt in its midst.
    Jeremiah 43:12
    I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt, and he shall burn them and carry them away captive. And he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd puts on his garment, and he shall go out from there in peace.
    Jeremiah 46:25
    The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, says: "Behold, I will bring punishment on Amon of No, and Pharaoh and Egypt, with their gods and their kings - Pharaoh and those who trust in him.
    Zechariah 13:2
    It shall be in that day," says the LORD of hosts, " that I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, and they shall no longer be remembered. I will also cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to depart from the land.
  14. Cross References
    Zechariah 10:11
    He shall pass through the sea with affliction, And strike the waves of the sea: All the depths of the River shall dry up. Then the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, And the scepter of Egypt shall depart.
  15. Cross References
    Isaiah 19:16
    In that day Egypt will be like women, and will be afraid and fear because of the waving of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which He waves over it.
  16. Cross References
    Isaiah 11:11
    It shall come to pass in that day That the Lord shall set His hand again the second time To recover the remnant of His people who are left, From Assyria and Egypt, From Pathros and Cush, From Elam and Shinar, From Hamath and the islands of the sea.
    Jeremiah 44:1
    The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews who dwell in the land of Egypt, who dwell at Migdol, at Tahpanhes, at Noph, and in the country of Pathros, saying.
    Jeremiah 44:15
    Then all the men who knew that their wives had burned incense to other gods, with all the women who stood by, a great multitude, and all the people who dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying:
    Ezekiel 29:14
    I 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 lowly kingdom.
  17. Cross References
    Psalms 78:12
    Marvelous things He did in the sight of their fathers, In the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
    Psalms 78:43
    When He worked His signs in Egypt, And His wonders in the field of Zoan.
    Isaiah 19:11
    Surely the princes of Zoan are fools; Pharaoh's wise counselors give foolish counsel. How do you say to Pharaoh, "I am the son of the wise, The son of ancient kings?
    Isaiah 19:13
    The princes of Zoan have become fools; The princes of Noph are deceived; They have also deluded Egypt, Those who are the mainstay of its tribes.
  18. Cross References
    Jeremiah 46:25
    The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, says: "Behold, I will bring punishment on Amon of No, and Pharaoh and Egypt, with their gods and their kings - Pharaoh and those who trust in him.
    Ezekiel 30:15
    I will pour My fury on Sin, the strength of Egypt; I will cut off the multitude of No.
    Ezekiel 30:16
    And set a fire in Egypt; Sin shall have great pain, No shall be split open, And Noph shall be in distress daily.
    Nahum 3:8 - 10
    Are you better than No Amon That was situated by the River, That had the waters around her, Whose rampart was the sea, Whose wall was the sea?
  19. Cross References
    Jeremiah 46:25
    The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, says: "Behold, I will bring punishment on Amon of No, and Pharaoh and Egypt, with their gods and their kings - Pharaoh and those who trust in him.
  20. Cross References
    Ezekiel 30:8
    Then they will know that I am the LORD, When I have set a fire in Egypt And all her helpers are destroyed.
  21. Cross References
    Jeremiah 2:16
    Also the people of Noph and Tahpanhes Have broken the crown of your head.
  22. Cross References
    Psalms 9:16
    The LORD is known by the judgment He executes; The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah
    Ezekiel 5:8
    Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: 'Indeed I, even I, am against you and will execute judgments in your midst in the sight of the nations.
    Ezekiel 25:11
    "And I will execute judgments upon Moab, and they shall know that I am the LORD."
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