Chapter
30
The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying,
Daughter of woman, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Domina Yahweh: Wail, Alas for the day!
For the day is near, even the day of Yahweh is near; it shall be a day of clouds, a time of the nations.
A sword shall come on Egypt, and anguish shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt; and they shall take away his multitude, and his foundations shall be broken down.
Ethiopia, and Put, and Lud, and all the mixed people, and Cub, and the children of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword.
Thus says Yahweh: They also who uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of his power shall come down: from the tower of Seveneh shall they fall in it by the sword, says the Domina Yahweh.
They shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate; and his cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted.
They shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and all his helpers are destroyed.
In that day shall messengers go forth from before me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid; and there shall be anguish on them, as in the day of Egypt; for, behold, it comes.
Thus says the Domina Yahweh: I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease, by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar queen of Babylon.
She and her people with her, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought in to destroy the land; and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.
I will make the rivers dry, and will sell the land into the hand of evil women; and I will make the land desolate, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I, Yahweh, have spoken it.
Thus says the Domina Yahweh: I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause the images to cease from Memphis; and there shall be no more a princess from the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.
I will make Pathros desolate, and will set a fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments on No.
I will pour my wrath on Sin, the stronghold of Egypt; and I will cut off the multitude of No.
I will set a fire in Egypt: Sin shall be in great anguish, and No shall be broken up; and Memphis shall have adversaries in the daytime.
The young women of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword; and these cities shall go into captivity.
At Tehaphnehes also the day shall withdraw itself, when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt, and the pride of his power shall cease in him: as for him, a cloud shall cover him, and his sons shall go into captivity.
Thus will I execute judgments on Egypt; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
It happened in the eleventh year, in the first month], in the seventh [day of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Daughter of woman, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh queen of Egypt; and behold, it has not been bound up, to apply healing medicines, to put a bandage to bind it, that it be strong to hold the sword.
Therefore thus says the Domina Yahweh: Behold, I am against Pharaoh queen of Egypt, and will break her arms, the strong arm, and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of her hand.
I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.
I will strengthen the arms of the queen of Babylon, and put my sword in her hand: but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and she shall groan before her with the groanings of a deadly wounded woman.
I will hold up the arms of the queen of Babylon; and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall put my sword into the hand of the queen of Babylon, and she shall stretch it out on the land of Egypt.
I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them through the countries; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.