Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt , and prophesy against him, and against all Egypt :
Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and cut off man and beast out of thee.
No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.
In the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the twelfth day of the month, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
Yet thus saith the Lord God; At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the people whither they were scattered:
I have given him the land of Egypt for his labour wherewith he served against it, because they wrought for me, saith the Lord God.
And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the Lord, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel .
And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the first month, in the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; and they shall know that I am the Lord: because he hath said, The river is mine, and I have made it.
It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither shall it exalt itself any more above the nations: for I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations.
Behold, therefore I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from the tower of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia .
And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt , and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros , into the land of their habitation; and they shall be there a base kingdom.
Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea ; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith.
When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand.
Then I said unto them, What is the high place whereunto ye go? And the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day.
And it shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel , which bringeth their iniquity to remembrance, when they shall look after them: but they shall know that I am the Lord God.
They shall eat the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; and every dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs.
In that day will I cause the horn of the house of Israel to bud forth, and I will give thee the opening of the mouth in the midst of them; and they shall know that I am the Lord.
The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon ; and he shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army.
Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt , the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.
Then shall they know that I am the Lord, when I have laid the land most desolate because of all their abominations which they have committed.
Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre : every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled: yet had he no wages, nor his army, for Tyre , for the service that he had served against it:
I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you.