¹And the word of the Lord came to me and said, ²“Son of Adam, prophesy and say, ‘This is what my Lord the Lord says:

«Howl, woe be to the day!

³For the day is near,

Yes, the day of the Lord is near.

It will be a day of cloud,

A time of the Gentiles.

⁴And the sword will come to Egypt,

And there will be trembling in Ethiopia

When a casualty falls in Egypt,

And they take its wealth,

And its foundations are demolished.

⁵Ethiopia and Libya and Lud, and all the mixed population, and Chub, and the sons of the land of the covenant will fall by the sword with them.» ⁶This is what the Lord says:

«So those who support Egypt will fall,

And the pride of its strength will decline.

From Migdol Syene they will fall in it by the sword,

Says the Lord, the Lord.

⁷And they will be desolate inside desolated countries,

And each one's cities will be reckoned among the ruined cities.

⁸And they will know that I am the Lord,

When I produce fire in Egypt,

And all those who help her are routed.

⁹On that day, messengers will go out from my presence in ships

To instil fear in confident Ethiopia,

And there will be trembling among them on the day of Egypt.

For behold, it is coming.»

¹⁰This is what the Lord, the Lord, says:

«I will put a stop to the affluence of Egypt,

By the hand of Nebuchadrezzar

King of Babylon.

¹¹He and his people with him

– Fierce people from the Gentiles –

Will be brought to bring the land to ruin,

And they will draw their swords against Egypt,

And they will fill the land with the fallen.

¹²And I will make the rivers dry land,

And I will sell the land into the hand of the wicked,

And I will make the land and its fulness desolate by the hand of foreigners.

I, the Lord, have spoken.»

¹³This is what my Lord the Lord says:

«And I will destroy the idols,

And I will put a stop to the false gods from Noph,

And there will not be a prince from the land of Egypt any more,

And I will put fear in the land of Egypt,

¹⁴And I will devastate Pathros,

And I will produce fire in Zoan,

And I will execute judgments in No,

¹⁵And I will pour out my fury on Sin,

The fortress of Egypt,

And I will cut the horde of No off.

¹⁶And I will produce fire in Egypt;

The city of Sin will writhe painfully,

And No will be broken into,

And Noph will have tribulations by day.

¹⁷The young men of Aven and Pi-Beseth will fall by the sword

And the women will go into captivity.

¹⁸And in Tahpanhes the day will hold itself back

When I break the yoke beams of Egypt there,

And its pride in its strength ceases.

A cloud will cover it,

And its daughters will go into captivity.

¹⁹And I will execute judgments in Egypt,

And they will know that I am the Lord.» ’ ”

²⁰Then it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me and said, ²¹“Son of Adam, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and look, it will not be bound up, to let it heal, with a bandage applied to bind it, to strengthen it, so that it could wield a sword. ²²Therefore this is what the Lord, the Lord, says: ‘Here I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and I will break his arms – the strong one and the broken one – and I will cause the sword to fall from his hand. ²³And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and I will disperse them among the various countries. ²⁴And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and I will put my sword in his hand, but I will break Pharaoh's arms, and he will groan before him with the groanings of one struck through. ²⁵And I will strengthen the king of Babylon's arms, but Pharaoh's arms will fall down. And they will know that I am the Lord when I put my sword in the hand of the king of Babylon, and he directs it towards the land of Egypt. ²⁶So I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and I will disperse them among the various countries, and they will know that I am the Lord.’ ”

Reference(s) in Chapter 30: v.3 ↔ Revelation 1:10.