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The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
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Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Howl ye, Woe worth the day!
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For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen.
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And the sword shall come upon Egypt , and great pain shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt , and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down.
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Ethiopia, and Libya , and Lydia, and all the mingled people, and Chub, and the men of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword.
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Thus saith the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord GOD.
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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.
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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 .
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In that day shall messengers go forth from me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid, and great pain shall come upon them, as in the day of Egypt : for, lo, it cometh.
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Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon .
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He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought to destroy the land: and they shall draw their swords against Egypt , and fill the land with the slain.
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And I will make the rivers dry , and sell the land into the hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all that is therein , by the hand of strangers: I the LORD have spoken it .
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Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause their images to cease out of Noph; and there shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt : and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt .
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And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan , and will execute judgments in No.
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And I will pour my fury upon Sin , the strength of Egypt ; and I will cut off the multitude of No.
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And I will set fire in Egypt : Sin shall have great pain, and No shall be rent asunder, and Noph shall have distresses daily.
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The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword: and these cities shall go into captivity.
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At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened , when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt : and the pomp of her strength shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity.
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Thus will I execute judgments in Egypt : and they shall know that I am the LORD.
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And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month , in the seventh day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
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Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt ; and, lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed, to put a roller to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword.
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Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt , and will break his arms, the strong, and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.
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And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.
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And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon , and put my sword in his hand: but I will break Pharaoh's arms, and he shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded man .
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But I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon , and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon , and he shall stretch it out upon the land of Egypt .
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And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among the countries; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
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