And you shall say, Thus has the Lord said: Behold, I [will] send, and will bring Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he shall place his throne upon these stones which you have hidden, and he shall lift up weapons against them.

And he shall kindle a fire in the houses of their gods, and shall burn them, and shall carry them away captives; and shall search the land of Egypt, as a shepherd searches his garment; and he shall go forth in peace.

Proclaim [it] at Migdol, and declare [it] at Memphis. Say, Stand up, and prepare; for the sword has devoured your yew tree.

And your multitude has fainted and fallen; and each one has said to his neighbor, Let us arise, and return into our country to our people, from the Grecian sword.

[As] I live, says the Lord God, he shall come, [surely] as Tabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel that is on the sea.

Egypt is a fair heifer, [but] destruction from the north has come upon her.

Their voice is as [that] of a hissing serpent, for they go upon the sand. They shall come upon Egypt with axes, as men that cut wood.

The daughter of Egypt is confounded; she is delivered into the hands of a people from the north.

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Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against all of Egypt,

And I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will cause the fish of your river to stick to your sides, and I will bring you up out of the midst of your river;

And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the Lord, because you have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.

Therefore thus says the Lord: Behold, I [will] bring a sword upon you, and will cut off from you man and beast;

Therefore, behold, I am against you, and against all your rivers, and I will give up the land of Egypt to desolation, and the sword, and destruction, from Migdol and Syene even to the borders of the Ethiopians.

And I will cause her land to be utterly destroyed in the midst of a land that is desolate, and her cities shall be [desolate] forty years in the midst of cities that are desolate; and I will disperse Egypt among the nations, and will utterly scatter them into the countries.

and I will turn the captivity of the Egyptians, and will cause them to dwell in the land of Pathros, in the land from where they were taken;

And they shall no more be to the house of Israel a confidence bringing iniquity to remembrance, when they follow after them; and they shall know that I am the Lord.

Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre; every head was bald, and every shoulder peeled; yet there was no reward to him or to his army [serving] against Tyre, nor for the service which they served against it.

In return for his service in which he served against Tyre, I have given him the land of Egypt; thus says the Lord God:

Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him: You have become like a lion among the nations, and as a serpent that is in the sea; and you made assaults with your rivers, and troubled the waters with your feet, and trampled your rivers.

and I will stretch you upon the earth. The fields shall be covered [with you], and I will cause all the birds of the sky to settle upon you, and I will fill [with you] all the wild beasts of the earth.

And the land shall be drenched with your dung, because of your multitude upon the mountains; I will fill the valleys with you.

All the [bodies] that give light in the sky shall be darkened over you, and I will bring darkness upon the earth, says the Lord God.

And many nations shall mourn over you, and their kings shall be utterly amazed, when My sword flies in their faces, as they wait for their [own] fall from the day of your fall.

with the swords of mighty men; and I will cast down your strength; [they are] all destroying ones from the nations, and they shall destroy the pride of Egypt, and all her strength shall be crushed.

Thus shall their waters then be at rest, and their rivers shall flow like oil, says the Lord,

There is a lamentation, and you shall utter it; and the daughters of the nations shall utter it, [even] for Egypt, and they shall mourn for it over all the strength thereof, says the Lord God.

Son of man, lament over the strength of Egypt, for the nations shall bring down her daughters dead to the depth of the earth, to them that go down to the pit.

They shall fall with him in the midst of them [that are] slain with the sword, and all his strength shall perish. The giants also shall say to you,

There are Assyria and all his company; all [his] slain have been laid there,

There is Elam and all his multitude round about his tomb; all the slain that fell by the sword, and the uncircumcised that go down to the deep of the earth, who caused their fear to be upon the land of the living, and they have received their punishment with them that go down to the pit,

There were laid Meshech and Tubal, and all his strength round about his tomb. All his slain men, all the uncircumcised, slain with the sword, who caused their fear to be in the land of the living.

And you shall lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, with them that have been slain by the sword.

There are the princes of the north, [even] all the captains of Assyria, who go down slain [to the pit]; they lie uncircumcised among the slain with the sword together with their terror and their strength, and they have received their punishment with them that go down to the pit.

For I have caused his fear to be upon the land of the living, yet he shall lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that are slain with the sword, [even] Pharaoh, and all his multitude with him, says the Lord God.

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And they took the king, and brought him to the king of Babylon to Riblah, and he judged him.

And he put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in fetters. And the king of Babylon brought him to Babylon, and put him into the grinding-house, until the day when he died.

And the force of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was dispersed from about him.

And he killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in fetters, and brought him to Babylon.