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In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, the word of the
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speak, and say, Thus says the Lord
I am against you,
Pharaoh king of Egypt,
the great dragon sprawling
in the midst of its channels,
saying, "My Nile is my own;
I made it for myself."
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I will put hooks in your jaws,
and make the fish of your channels stick to your scales.
I will draw you up from your channels,
with all the fish of your channels
sticking to your scales.
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I will fling you into the wilderness,
you and all the fish of your channels;
you shall fall in the open field,
and not be gathered and buried.
To the animals of the earth and to the birds of the air
I have given you as food.
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Then all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know
that I am the
because you 1 were a staff of reed
to the house of Israel;
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when they grasped you with the hand, you broke,
and tore all their shoulders;
and when they leaned on you, you broke,
and made all their legs unsteady. 2
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Therefore, thus says the Lord
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and the land of Egypt shall be a desolation and a waste. Then they shall know that I am the
Because you 3 said, "The Nile is mine, and I made it,"
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therefore, I am against you, and against your channels, and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from Migdol to Syene, as far as the border of Ethiopia. 4
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No human foot shall pass through it, and no animal foot shall pass through it; it shall be uninhabited forty years.
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I will make the land of Egypt a desolation among desolated countries; and her cities shall be a desolation forty years among cities that are laid waste. I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among the countries.
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Further, thus says the Lord
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In the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the word of the
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On that day I will cause a horn to sprout up for the house of Israel, and I will open your lips among them. Then they shall know that I am the