Dual Panel1This word of the LORD came to me:
2“O man, prophesy and say: The Lord GOD says: Wail! Alas for the day!
3A day is near, a day of the LORD is near, a day of cloud, a day of reckoning for the nations!
4A sword will come on Egypt, and there will be anguish in Cush, when the slain fall in Egypt, when her wealth is seized, her foundations are demolished.
5Cush and Put and Lydia, all the Arabs, Libyans, and peoples of allied lands will fall by the sword along with Egypt.
6“The LORD says: Those who support Egypt will fall and her boasted might will be brought low; from Migdol to Syene they will fall by the sword. This is the word of the Lord GOD.
7“They will be the most desolate of desolate lands, their cities the most derelict of derelict cities.
8When I set Egypt on fire and all her helpers are shattered, they will know that I am the LORD.
9When that day comes messengers will go out in ships from my presence to strike terror into Cush, still undisturbed, and anguish shall come on her in Egypt's hour. Now it is near.
10“The Lord GOD says: I shall make an end of Egypt's hordes at the hand of King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon.
11He and his people with him, the most ruthless of nations, will be brought to ravage the land. They will draw their swords against Egypt and fill the land with the slain.
12I shall turn the streams of the Nile into dry land and sell Egypt into the power of evil men. “By the hands of foreigners I shall lay waste the land and everything in it. I, the LORD, have spoken.
13“The Lord GOD says: I shall make an end of the petty rulers and wipe out the chieftains of Noph; never again will a prince arise in Egypt. I shall instil terror into that land:
14I shall lay Pathros waste and set fire to Zoan and execute judgement on No.
15I shall vent my wrath on Sin, the bastion of Egypt, and destroy the hordes of Noph.
16I shall set Egypt on fire, and Syene will writhe in anguish; the walls of No will be breached and floodwaters will burst into it.
17The young men of On and Pi-beseth will fall by the sword and the cities themselves will go into captivity.
18Daylight will fail in Tahpanhes when I break the power of Egypt there; there her boasted might will be brought to an end. A cloud will cover her, and her daughters will go into captivity.
19I shall execute judgement on Egypt, and they will know that I am the LORD.”
20This word of the LORD came to me on the seventh day of the first month in the eleventh year:
21“O man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and it has not been bound up with dressings or bandaged to make it strong enough to wield a sword.
22The Lord GOD says: I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt; I shall break both his arms, the sound and the broken, and make the sword fall from his hand.
23I shall scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them throughout the earth.
24I shall strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon and put my sword in his hand; I shall break Pharaoh's arms, and he will lie wounded and groaning before him.
25I shall give strength to the arms of the king of Babylon, but Pharaoh's arms will fall. All will know that I am the LORD, when I put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he stretches it out over the land of Egypt.
26I shall scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them throughout the earth, and they will know that I am the LORD.”