by Septuagint
[12] 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.
[13] Thus saith the Lord; After forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the nations among whom they have been scattered; [14] and I will turn the captivity of the Egyptians, and will cause them to dwell in the land of Phathore, in the land whence they were taken; [15] and it shall be a base kingdom beyond all other kingdoms; it shall not any more be exalted over the nations; and I will make them few in number, that they may not be great among the nations. [16] 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.
[17] And it came to pass in the twenty-seventh year, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
[18] Son of man, Nabuchodonosor 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 wherewith they served against it.
[19] Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will give to Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon the land of Egypt, and he shall take the plunder thereof, and seize the spoils thereof; and it shall be a reward for his army. [20] In return for his service wherewith he served against Tyre, I have given him the land of Egypt; thus saith the Lord God:
[21] In that day shall a horn spring forth for all the house of Israel, and I will give thee an open mouth in the midst of them; and they shall know that I am the Lord.
Chapter 30
[1] And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, [2] Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the Lord; Woe, woe worth the day! [3] For the day of the Lord is nigh, a day of cloud; it shall be the end of the nations.
[4] And the sword shall come upon the Egyptians, and there shall be tumult in Ethiopia, and in Egypt men shall fall down slain together, and her foundations shall fall. [5] Persians, and Cretans, and Lydians, and Libyans, and all the mixed multitude, and they of the children of my covenant, shall fall by the sword therein. [6] And the supports of Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her strength shall come down from Magdol to Syene: they shall fall by the sword in it, saith the Lord. [7] And it shall be made desolate in the midst of desolate countries, and their cities shall be desolate in the midst of desolate cities: [8] and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall send fire upon Egypt, and when all that help her shall be broken. [9] In that day shall messengers go forth hasting to destroy Ethiopia utterly, and there shall be tumult among them in the day of Egypt: for, behold it comes.
[10] Thus saith he Lord God; I will also destroy the multitude of the Egyptians by the hand of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, [11] his hand and his people’s; they are plagues sent forth from the nations to destroy the land: and they all shall unsheath their swords against Egypt, and the land shall be filled with slain. [12] And I will make their rivers desolate, and will destroy the land and the fulness of it by the hands of strangers: I the Lord have spoken.
[13] For thus saith the Lord God; I will also destroy the nobles from Memphis, and the princes of Memphis out of the land of Egypt; and they shall be no more. [14] And I will destroy the land of Phathore, and will send fire upon Tanis, and will execute vengeance on Diospolis. [15] And I will pour out my wrath upon Sais the strength of Egypt, and will destroy the multitude of Memphis. [16] And I will send fire upon Egypt; and Syene shall be sorely troubled; and there shall be a breaking in Diospolis, and waters shall be poured out. [17] The youths of Heliopolis and Bubastum shall fall by the sword, and the women shall go into captivity. [18] And the day shall be darkened in Taphnae, when I have broken there the scepters of Egypt: and the pride of her strength shall perish there: and a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall be taken prisoners. [19] And I will execute judgment on Egypt; and they shall know that I am the Lord.
[20] And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, [21] Son of man, I have broken the arms of Pharao, king of Egypt; and, behold, it has not been bound up to be healed, to have a plaster put upon it, or to be strengthened to lay hold of the sword. [22] Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against Pharao king of Egypt, and I will break his strong and outstretched arms, and will smite down his sword out of his hand. [23] And I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations, and will utterly scatter them among the countries.
[24] And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword into his hand: and he shall bring it upon Egypt, and shall take her plunder and seize her spoils. [25] Yea, I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharao shall fail: and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have put my sword into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out over the land of Egypt. [26] And I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations, and utterly scatter them among the countries; and they all shall know that I am the Lord.
Chapter 31
[1] And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, [2] Son of man, say to Pharao king of Egypt, and to his multitude;
To whom hast thou compared thyself in thy haughtiness? [3] Behold, the Assyrian was a cypress in Libanus, and was fair in shoots, and high in stature: his top reached to the midst of the clouds. [4] The water nourished him, the depth made him grow tall; she led her rivers round about his plants, and she sent forth her streams to all the trees of the field. [5] Therefore, was his stature exalted above all the trees of the field, and his branches spread far by the help of much water. [6] All the birds of the sky made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches all the wild beasts of the field bred; the whole multitude of nations dwelt under his shadow. [7] And he was fair in his height by reason of the multitude of his branches: for his roots were amidst much water. [8] And such cypresses as this were in the paradise of God; and there were no pines like his shoots, and there were no firs like his branches: no tree in the paradise of God was like him in his beauty, [9] because of the multitude of his branches: and the trees of God’s paradise of delight envied him.
[10] Therefore thus saith the Lord; Because thou art grown great, and hast set thy top in the midst of the clouds, and I saw when he was exalted; [11] therefore I delivered him into the hands of the prince of the nations, and he wrought his destruction. [12] And ravaging strangers from the nations have destroyed him, and have cast him down upon the mountains: his branches fell in all the valleys, and his boughs were broken in every field of the land; and all the people of the nations are gone down from their shelter, and have laid him low.
[13] All the birds of the sky have settled on his fallen trunk, and all the wild beasts of the field came upon his boughs: [14] in order that none of the trees by the water should exalt themselves by reason of their size: whereas they set their top in the midst of the clouds, yet they continued not in their high state in their place, all that drank water, all were consigned to death, to the depth of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.
[15] Thus saith the Lord God; In the day wherein he went down to Hades, the deep mourned for him: and I stayed her floods, and restrained her abundance of water: and Libanus saddened for him, all the trees of the field fainted for him. [16] At the sound of his fall the nations quaked, when I brought him down to Hades with them that go down to the pit: and all the trees of Delight comforted him in the heart, and the choice of plants of Libanus, all that drink water. [17] For they went down to hell with him among the slain with the sword; and his seed, even they that dwelt under his shadow, perished in the midst of their life.
[18] To whom art thou compared? descend, and be thou debased with the trees of parad
ise to the depth of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that are slain by the sword. Thus shall Pharao be, and the multitude of his host, saith the Lord God.
Chapter 32
[1] And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying, [2] Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharao king of Egypt, and say to him,
Thou art become like a lion of the nations, and as a serpent that is in the sea: and thou didst make assaults with thy rivers, and didst disturb the water with thy feet, and didst trample thy rivers.
[3] Thus saith the Lord; I will also cast over thee the nets of many nations, and will bring thee up with my hook: [4] and I will stretch thee upon the earth: the fields shall be covered with thee, and I will cause all the birds of the sky to settle upon thee, and I will fill with thee all the wild beasts of the earth. [5] And I will cast thy flesh upon the mountains, and will saturate them with thy blood. [6] And the land shall be drenched with thy dung, because of thy multitude upon the mountains: I will fill the valleys with thee. [7] And I will veil the heavens when thou art extinguished, and will darken the stars thereof; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light. [8] All the bodies that give light in the sky, shall be darkened over thee, and I will bring darkness upon the earth, saith the Lord God.
[9] And I will provoke to anger the heart of many people, when I shall lead thee captive among the nations, to a land which thou hast not know. [10] And many nations shall mourn over thee, 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 thy fall.
[11] For thus saith the Lord God; The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee, [12] with the swords of mighty men; and I will cast down thy strength: they are all destroying ones from the nations, and they shall destroy the pride of Egypt, and all her strength shall be crushed. [13] And I will destroy all her cattle from beside the great water; and the foot of man shall not trouble it any more, and the step of cattle shall no more trample it. [14] Thus shall their waters then be at rest, and their rivers shall flow like oil, saith the Lord, [15] when I shall give up Egypt to destruction, and the land shall be made desolate with the fullness thereof; when I shall scatter all that dwell in it, and they shall know that I am the Lord. [16] There is a lamentation, and thou shalt 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, saith the Lord God.
[17] And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
[18] 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. [19] 20 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 thee, [21] Be thou in the depth of the pit: to whom art thou superior? yea, go down, and lie with the uncircumcised, in the midst of them that are slain with the sword.
[22] There are Assur and all his company: all his slain have been laid there: [23] and their burial is in the depth of the pit, and his company are set around about his tomb: all the slain that fell by the sword, who had caused the fear of them to be upon the land of the living.
[24] There is Ælam and all his host round about his tom: 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, [25] in the midst of the slain.
[26] There were laid Mosoch, and Thobel, 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. [27] And they are laid with the giants that fell of old, who went down to Hades with their weapons of war: and they laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities were upon their bones, because they terrified all men during their life. [28] And thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, with them that have been slain by the sword.
[29] There are laid the princes of Assur, who yielded their strength to a wound of the sword: these are laid with the slain, with them that go down to the pit.
[30] There are the princes of the north, even all the captains of Assur, who go down slain to Hades: 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.
[31] King Pharao shall see them, and shall be comforted over all their force, saith the Lord God. [32] 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 Pharao, and all his multitude with him, saith the Lord God.
Chapter 33
[1] And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, [2] Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and thou shalt say to them,
On whatsoever land I shall bring a sword, and the people of the land take one man of them, and set him for their watchman: [3] and he shall see the sword coming upon the land, and blow the trumpet, and sound an alarm to the people; [4] and he that hears the sound of the trumpet shall hear indeed, and yet not take heed, and the sword shall come upon him, and overtake him, his blood shall be upon his own head. [5] Because he heard the sound of the trumpet, and took no heed, his blood shall be upon him: but the other, because he took heed, has delivered his soul.
[6] But if the watchman see the sword coming, and do not sound the trumpet, and the people do not watch; and the sword come, and take a soul from among them, that soul is taken because of its iniquity; but the blood thereof will I require at the watchman’s hand.
[7] And thou, son of man, I have set thee as a watchman to the house of Israel, and thou shalt hear a word from my mouth. [8] When I say to the sinner, Thou shalt surely die; if thou speak not to warn the wicked from his way, the wicked himself shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand. [9] But if thou forewarn the wicked of his way to turn from it, and he turn not from his way, he shall die in his ungodliness; but thou hast delivered thine own soul.
[10] And thou, son of man, say to the house of Israel; Thus have ye spoken, saying, Our errors, and our iniquities weigh upon us, and we pine away in them, and how then shall we live? [11] Say to them, Thus saith the Lord; As I live, I desire not the death of the ungodly, as that the ungodly should turn from his way and live: turn ye heartily from your way; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
[12] Say to the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him, in the day wherein he errs: and the iniquity of the ungodly shall not harm him, in the day wherein he turns from his iniquity, but the righteous erring shall not be able to deliver himself.
[13] When I say to the righteous, Thou shalt live; and he trusts in his righteousness, and shall commit iniquity, none of his righteousnesses shall be remembered; in his unrighteousness which he has wrought, in it shall he die.
[14] And when I say to the ungodly, Thou shalt surely die; and he shall turn from his sin, and do judgment and justice, [15] and return the pledge, and repay that which he has robbed, and walk in the ordinances of life, so as to do no wrong; he shall surely live, and shall not die. [16] None of his sins which he has committed shall be remembered: because he has wrought judgment and righteousness; by them shall he live.
[17] Yet the children of thy people will say, The way of the Lord is not straight: whereas this their way is not straight. [18] When the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and shall commit iniquities, then shall he die in them. [19] And when the sinner turns from his iniquity, and shall do judgment and righteousness, he shall live by them. [20] And this is that which ye said, The way of the Lord is not straight. I will judge you, O house of Israel, ever
y one for his ways.
[21] And it came to pass in the tenth year of our captivity, in the twelfth month, on the fifth day of the month, that one that had escaped from Jerusalem came to me, saying, The city is taken. [22] Now the hand of the Lord had come upon me in the evening, before he came; and he opened my mouth, when he came to me in the morning: and my mouth was open, it was no longer kept closed.
[23] And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, [24] Son of man, they that inhabit the desolate places on the land of Israel say, Abram was one, and he possessed the land: and we are more numerous; to us the land is given for a possession.
[25] 26 [27] Therefore say to them, Thus saith the Lord God, As I live, surely they that are in the desolate places shall fall by swords and they that are in the open plain shall be given for food to the wild beasts of the field, and them that are in the fortified cities and them that are in the caves I will slay with pestilence. [28] And I will make the land desert, and the pride of her strength shall perish; and the mountains of Israel shall be made desolate by reason of no man passing through. [29] And they shall know that I am the Lord; and I will make their land desert, and it shall be made desolate because of all their abominations which they have wrought.
[30] And as for thee, son of man, the children of thy people are they that speak concerning thee by the walls, and in the porches of the houses, and they talk one to another, saying, Let us come together, and let us hear the words that proceed from the Lord. [31] They approach thee as a people comes together, and sit before thee, and hear thy words, but they will not do them: for there is falsehood in their mouth, and their heart goes after their pollutions. [32] And thou art to them as a sound of a sweet, well-tuned psaltery, and they will hear thy words, but they will not do them. [33] But whenever it shall come to pass, they will say, Behold, it is come: and they shall know that there was a prophet in the midst of them.