The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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Ezekiel 30:17 (NIV)

The young men of Heliopolis and Bubastis
will fall by the sword,
and the cities themselves will go into captivity.

 

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Ezekiel 30:18 (NIV)

Dark will be the day at Tahpanhes
when I break the yoke of Egypt;
there her proud strength will come to an end.
She will be covered with clouds,
and her villages will go into captivity.

 

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Ezekiel 30:19 (NIV)

So I will inflict punishment on Egypt,
and they will know that I am the Lord.”’

 

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Ezekiel 30:20 (WEB)

In the eleventh year, in the first month, in the seventh day of the month, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

 

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Ezekiel 30:21 (WEB)

“Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Behold, it has not been bound up, to apply medicines,
to put a bandage to bind it, that it become strong to hold the sword.

 

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Ezekiel 30:22 (WEB)

Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong arm,
and that which was broken. I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.

 

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Ezekiel 30:23 (WEB)

I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.

 

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Ezekiel 30:24 (WEB)

I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand; but I will break the arms of Pharaoh,
and he will groan before the king of Babylon with the groaning of a mortally wounded man.

 

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Ezekiel 30:25 (WEB)

I will hold up the arms of the king of Babylon; and the arms of Pharaoh will fall down. Then they will know that I am Yahweh, when I put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he stretches it out on the land of Egypt.

 

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Ezekiel 30:26 (WEB)

I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them through the countries.
Then they will know that I am Yahweh.’

 

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Ezekiel 31:1 (NIV)

In the eleventh year, in the third month on the first day, the word of the Lord came to me:

 

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Ezekiel 31:2 (NIV)

‘Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his hordes: ‘“Who can be compared with you in majesty?

 

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Ezekiel 31:3 (NIV)

Consider Assyria, once a cedar in Lebanon,
with beautiful branches overshadowing the forest;
it towered on high,
its top above the thick foliage.

 

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Ezekiel 31:4 (NIV)

The waters nourished it,
deep springs made it grow tall;
their streams flowed
all around its base
and sent their channels
to all the trees of the field.

 

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Ezekiel 31:5 (NIV)

So it towered higher
than all the trees of the field;
its boughs increased
and its branches grew long,
spreading because of abundant waters.

 

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Ezekiel 31:6 (NIV)

All the birds of the sky
nested in its boughs,
all the wild animals
gave birth under its branches;
all the great nations
lived in its shade.

 

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Ezekiel 31:7 (CSB)

It was beautiful in its size,
in the length of its limbs,
for its roots extended to abundant water.

 

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Ezekiel 31:8 (CSB)

The cedars in God’s garden could not eclipse it;
the pine trees couldn’t compare with its branches,
nor could the plane trees match its boughs.
No tree in the garden of God
could compare with it in beauty.

 

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Ezekiel 31:9 (CSB)

I made it beautiful with its many limbs,
and all the trees of Eden,
which were in God’s garden, envied it.

 

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Ezekiel 31:10 (CSB)

“‘Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: Since it towered high in stature and set its top among the clouds,
and it grew proud on account of its height,