Ezekiel 29:1 (NLT) - 1 On January 7, during the tenth year of King Jehoiachin’s captivity, this message came to me from the Lord:
THE BIBLE - Verse by Verse (Ezekiel Chapter 29)
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Ezekiel 29:2 (NLT) - 2 “Son of man, turn and face Egypt and prophesy against Pharaoh the king and all the people of Egypt.
Ezekiel 29:3 (NLT) - 3
Give them this message from the Sovereign Lord:
“I am your enemy, O Pharaoh, king of Egypt—
you great monster, lurking in the streams of the Nile.
For you have said, ‘The Nile River is mine;
I made it for myself.’
Give them this message from the Sovereign Lord:
“I am your enemy, O Pharaoh, king of Egypt—
you great monster, lurking in the streams of the Nile.
For you have said, ‘The Nile River is mine;
I made it for myself.’
Ezekiel 29:8 (NLT) - 8 “Therefore, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will bring an army against you, O Egypt, and destroy both people and animals.
Ezekiel 29:9 (NLT) - 9 The land of Egypt will become a desolate wasteland, and the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord. “Because you said, ‘The Nile River is mine; I made it,’
Ezekiel 29:10 (NLT) - 10 I am now the enemy of both you and your river. I will make the land of Egypt a totally desolate wasteland, from Migdol to Aswan, as far south as the border of Ethiopia.
Ezekiel 29:11 (NLT) - 11 For forty years not a soul will pass that way, neither people nor animals. It will be completely uninhabited.
Ezekiel 29:12 (NLT) - 12 I will make Egypt desolate, and it will be surrounded by other desolate nations. Its cities will be empty and desolate for forty years, surrounded by other ruined cities. I will scatter the Egyptians to distant lands.
Ezekiel 29:13 (NLT)
13 “But this is what the Sovereign Lord also says: At the end of the forty years I will bring the Egyptians home again from the nations to which they have been scattered.
13 “But this is what the Sovereign Lord also says: At the end of the forty years I will bring the Egyptians home again from the nations to which they have been scattered.
Ezekiel 29:14 (NLT)
14 I will restore the prosperity of Egypt and bring its people back to the land of Pathros in southern Egypt from which they came. But Egypt will remain an unimportant, minor kingdom.
14 I will restore the prosperity of Egypt and bring its people back to the land of Pathros in southern Egypt from which they came. But Egypt will remain an unimportant, minor kingdom.
Ezekiel 29:15 (NLT)
15 It will be the lowliest of all the nations, never again great enough to rise above its neighbors.
15 It will be the lowliest of all the nations, never again great enough to rise above its neighbors.
Ezekiel 29:16 (NLT)
16 “Then Israel will no longer be tempted to trust in Egypt for help. Egypt’s shattered condition will remind Israel of how sinful she was to trust Egypt in earlier days. Then Israel will know that I am the Sovereign Lord.”
16 “Then Israel will no longer be tempted to trust in Egypt for help. Egypt’s shattered condition will remind Israel of how sinful she was to trust Egypt in earlier days. Then Israel will know that I am the Sovereign Lord.”