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Ezekiel 30
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| 30:1
The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, |
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| 30:2
Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Howl ye, Woe worth
the day! |
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| 30:3
For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near,
a cloudy day; it
shall be the time of the heathen. |
"The day ... of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the
time of the heathen." God plans to wipe out the heathen. When? Soon. Really soon.
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| 30:4
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. |
(30:4-26)
And they shall know that I am the Lord."
God will punish Egypt and her allies by sending
Nebuchadrezzar to "fill the land with the slain." Then he will make "the rivers
dry," sell the land to "the
wicked," make "the land waste," light fires, and kill all their young men with
the sword.
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| 30:5
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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| 30:6
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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| 30:7
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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| 30:8
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. |
The Divine Pyromaniac
"And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I have set a fire in Egypt."
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| 30:9
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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| 30:10
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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| 30:12
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. |
"And I will make the rivers dry."
The rivers of Egypt (identified as the Nile
in NIV, NASB, and RSV) shall dry up. This has never occurred.
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| 30:13
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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| 30:14
And I will make
Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, and will execute
judgments in No. |
The Divine Pyromaniac
"And I will ... set fire in Zoan."
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| 30:15
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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| 30:16
And I will set fire
in Egypt: Sin shall have great pain, and No shall be rent asunder,
and Noph shall have distresses daily. |
The Divine Pyromaniac
"And I will set fire in Egypt."
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| 30:17
The young men of Aven
and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword: and these cities shall go into
captivity. |
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| 30:18
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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| 30:19
Thus will I execute
judgments in Egypt: and they shall know that I am the LORD. |
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| 30:20 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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"And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, in the
seventh day of the month...."
So when did it come to pass? The 11th year etc. of what?
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| 30:21
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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| 30:23
And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them
through the countries. |
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| 30:24
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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| 30:25
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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| 30:26
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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