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The xxx. Chapter.
The destruction of Egypt, and of his cities is bewayled.
[unspec A] 1 THe word of the Lorde came vnto me, saying:
2 Thou sonne of man prophecie, and speake, thus sayth the Lorde God, howle, wo worth this day:
3 For the day is neare, the day of the Lorde is at hande, the darke day, the time of the nations shalbe,
4 And the sworde shall come vpon E∣gypt, and feare shalbe in Ethiopia when the slayne shall fall in Egypt: and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shalbe broken downe.
5 Yea Ethiopia, Lybia, & Lydia, all their common people, and Chub, and all that be confederate vnto them, shal fall with them thorowe the sworde.
6 Thus sayth the Lorde: The mayntei∣ners of the lande of Egypt shall fall, the pryde of her powre shall come downe: euen from the towre of a 1.1 Seueneh shal they fall downe in it with the sworde, sayth the Lorde God.
[unspec B] 7 Among other desolate countreys they shalbe made desolate, among other waste cities they shalbe wasted.
8 And they shall knowe that I am the Lord when I haue set a fire in Egypt, & when al her helpers shalbe destroyed.
9 In that day shall messengers go foorth from me in ships to make the carelesse Morians afrayde, and feare shall come vpon them, according to the day of E∣gypt: for lo it commeth.
10 Thus sayth the Lord God, I wil cause the multitude of Egypt to ceasse by the hande of Nabuchodonozor king of Ba∣bylon.
11 He, and his people with him, the terri∣ble nations shalbe brought to destroy the land: they shal drawe out their swordes vpon Egypt, & fill the land full of slayne men.
12 I wil make their riuers drie, and sel the lande into the handes of wicked people: the land and all that is therin I will destroy thorow the hand of straungers: euen I the Lorde haue sayde it.
13 Thus sayth the Lorde God, I will de∣stroy the idoles, and bring the images of * 1.2 Noph to an end: there shal no more be a prince of Egypt, and a fearfulnesse wil I send into the Egyptians lande.
14 As for Pathros, I wil make it desolate, [unspec C] and kindle a fire in (c) 1.3 Zoan, and I will execute iudgementes in (d) 1.4 No.
15 And I will powre my wrathful indig∣nation vpon Sin the strength of Egypt, & I will destroy the multitude of No.
16 And I will kindle a fire in Egypt, Sin shalbe in great heauinesse, No shalbe rooted out, and Noph shall haue dayly sorowe.
17 The young men of “ 1.5 Auen, and of “ 1.6 Phi∣beseth shall fall by the sworde, and these [cities] shall go into captiuitie.
18 At Tehaphnehes the day shalbe (e) 1.7 darke, when I breake there the barres of Egypt, and when the pompe of her power shall ceasse in her: a cloude shall couer her, and her daughters shall go into captiuitie.
19 Thus will I execute my iudgementes in Egypt, and they shall knowe howe that I am the Lorde.
20 And in the (f) 1.8 eleuenth yere, vpon the se∣uenth day of the first moneth, the worde of the Lorde came vnto me, saying:
21 Thou sonne of man, I haue (g) 1.9 broken the arme of Pharao king of Egypt: and lo, it shall not be bounde vp to be healed, to put a roller to bynde it, to make it strong to hold the sworde.
22 Therfore thus sayth the Lorde God: Beholde, I will vpon Pharao king of Egypt, and breake his arme that was strong, but is broken: and I will cause the sworde to fall out of his hande.
23 As for the Egyptians, I will scatter them among the nations, and strawe them in the landes about.
24 Againe, I will strengthen the arme of the king of Babylon, and geue hym my sword in his hande: but I will breake Pharaos armes, and he shall grone the grodinges of a deadly wounded man before hym:
25 Yea I will strengthen the king of Ba∣bylons arme, and the armes of Pharao shall fall downe: and they shall knowe that I am the Lorde, when I shall (h) 1.10 geue my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, that he may stretch it out vpon the lande of Egypt.
26 And I will scatter the Egyptians a∣mong the nations, & strowe them in the landes about: and they shal knowe that I am the Lorde.