{Eze 24:15-25:17; Jer 34:1-22, 21:1-14; Eze 29:1-16, 30:20-31:18 ^**}

    ^29:1 In the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the twelfth day of the month, the word of Jehovah came to me, saying, ^29:2 Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh King of Egypt and prophesy against him and against all Egypt. ^29:3 Speak and say, The Lord Jehovah says thus: Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh King of Egypt, the great monster that lies in the midst of his rivers, that has said, My river is my own and I have made it for myself.

    ^29:4 And I will put hooks in your jaws and I will cause the fish of your rivers to stick to your scales and I will bring you up out of the midst of your rivers, with all the fish of your rivers which stick to your scales. ^29:5 And I will cast you forth into the wilderness, you and all the fish of your rivers. You will fall upon the open field. You will not be brought together, nor gathered. I have given you for food to the beasts of the earth and to the birds of the heavens.

    ^29:6 And all the inhabitants of Egypt will know that I am Jehovah, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel. ^29:7 When they took hold of you by your hand, you broke and tore all their shoulders. And when they leaned upon you, you broke and made all their loins to be at a stand still.

    ^29:8 Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will bring a sword upon you and will cut off from you man and beast. ^29:9 And the land of Egypt will be a desolation and a waste.

    And they will know that I am Jehovah.

    Because he has said, The river is mine and I have made it, ^29:10 therefore, behold, I am against you and against your rivers. And I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from the Migdol to Syene, even to the border of Ethiopia. ^29:11No foot of man will pass through it, nor foot of beast will pass through it. Neither will it be inhabited forty years.

    ^29:12 And I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of the countries that are desolate. And her cities among the cities that are laid waste will be a desolation forty years. And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and will disperse them through the countries.

    ^29:13 For thus says the Lord Jehovah: At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples where they were scattered, ^29:14 and I will bring back the captivity of Egypt and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their birth.

    And they will be a base kingdom there. ^29:15 It will be the lowest of the kingdoms, nor will it lift itself up any more above the nations. And I will diminish them, that they will no more rule over the nations. ^29:16 And it will be no more the confidence of the house of Israel, bringing iniquity to remembrance, when they turn to look after them.

    And they will know that I am the Lord Jehovah.

    {Eze 47:1-48:35, 29:17-30:19; 2Ki 25:27-30; Jer 52:31-34 ^**}

    ^29:17 And it happened in the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, in the first day of the month, the word of Jehovah came to me, saying, ^29:18 Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre. Every head was made bald and every shoulder was worn, yet he had no wages, nor his army, from Tyre, for the service that he had served against it.

    ^29:19 Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and he will carry off her multitude and take her spoil and take her prey. And it will be the wages for his army. ^29:20 I have given him the land of Egypt as his recompense for which he served, because they worked for me, says the Lord Jehovah

    ^29:21 In that day I will cause a horn to bud forth to the house of Israel and I will give you the opening of the mouth in the midst of them. And they will know that I am Jehovah.