1 In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth of the month, the word of Jehovah came to me:

2 »Son of man set your face present yourself against Pharaoh king of Egypt and prophesy against him and against all Egypt.

3 »Say this, ‘The Lord Jehovah says: »I am against you Pharaoh, king of Egypt, the great monster Egypt(Psalm 74:13,14) that lies in the midst of his rivers. You have said: ‘My Nile is mine! I have made it!’«

4 »I will put hooks in your jaws and make the fish of your rivers cling to your scales. I will bring you up out of the midst of your rivers. All the fish of your rivers will cling to your scales.

5 »I will abandon you to the wilderness and all the fish of your rivers. You will fall on the open field. You will not be brought together or gathered. I have given you for food to the beasts of the earth and to the birds of the sky.

6 »Then all the inhabitants of Egypt will know that I am Jehovah. This is because they have been only a staff made of reed to the house of Israel.

7 »When they took hold of you with the hand, you broke and tore all their hands. When they leaned on you, you broke and made all their loins quake.«

8 »‘Therefore the Lord Jehovah says: »I will bring upon you a sword and I will cut off from you man and beast.

9 »‘The land of Egypt will become a desolation and waste. Then they will know that I am Jehovah. Because you said: ‘The Nile is mine, and I have made it.’

10 »I am against you and against your rivers. I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from Migdol to Syene and even to the border of Ethiopia.

11 »A man's foot will not pass through it, and the foot of a beast will not pass through it, and it will not be inhabited for forty years.

12 »So I will make the land of Egypt desolation in the midst of desolated lands. And her cities, in the midst of cities that are laid waste, will be desolate forty years. I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the lands.«

13 »‘The Lord Jehovah says: »At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples among whom they were scattered.

14 »»‘I will turn the fortunes of Egypt and make them return to the land of Pathros, to the land of their origin. They will be a lowly kingdom.

15 »»‘It will be the lowest of the kingdoms, and it will never again lift itself up above the nations. I will make them so small that they will not rule over the nations.

16 »‘»It will never again be the confidence of the house of Israel, bringing to mind the iniquity of their having turned to Egypt. Then they will know that I am the Lord Jehovah.« ’«

17 Now in the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first of the month, the word of Jehovah came to me. He said:

18 »Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made his army labor hard against Tyre. Every head was made bald and every shoulder was rubbed bare. But he and his army had no wages from Tyre for the labor that he had performed against it.

19 »The Lord Jehovah says: ‘I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. He will carry off her wealth and capture her spoil and seize her plunder. It will serve as wages for his army.

20 »‘I have given him the land of Egypt for the labor he performed, because they acted for me,’ declares the Lord Jehovah.

21 »On that day I will make a horn sprout for the house of Israel make the people of Israel strong again, and I give you, Ezekiel, something to say among them. Then they will know that I am Jehovah.«