thee riches, and hast gotten gold 5 and silver into thy treasures: by thy great wisdom and by thy traffic hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy 6 riches: therefore thus saith the Lord GOD: Because thou hast set thine 7) heart as the heart of God; therefore behold, I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy 8 brightness. They shall bring thee down to the pit; and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain, in 9 the heart of the seas. Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou art man, and Inot God, in the hand of him that 10 woundeth thee. "Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.

11 Moreover the word of the LORD 12 came unto me, saying, "Son of man, take up a lamentation 'for the king of Tyre, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD: Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and per13) fect in beauty. Thou 'wast' in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, 'the topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the "carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship. of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was in thee; in the day that thou wast (14 created they were prepared. Thou Iwast' the anointed cherub that covereth and I set thee, so that thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the 15 midst of the stones of fire. "Thou

wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till 'un*(16 righteousness was found in thee. By

the multitude of thy traffic' they filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore have I cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God; and I have destroyed' thee, O covering cherub, from the 17 midst of the stones of fire. "Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wis

1 Or, power 2 Or, profanel Or, profaneth

dom by reason of thy brightness: I have' cast thee to the ground, I have laid thee before kings, that they may 18) behold thee. By the multitude of thine iniquities, in the unrighteousness of thy traffic, thou hast 'profaned thy sanctuaries; therefore have I brought forth a fire from the midst of thee, it hath devoured' thee, and I have turned thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight 19) of all them that behold thee. ° All

they that know thee among the peoples shall be astonished at thee: thou art become! a terror, and thou shalt never be any more.

20 And the word of the LORD came 21 unto me, saying, Son of man, set thy face toward Zidon, and prophesy 22 against it, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against thee, O Zidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of thee: and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall have executed judgements in her, and shall be sanctified in her. 23 °For I will send into her pestilence and blood in her streets; and the wounded shall fall in the midst of her, with the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know 24) that I am the LORD. And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor la grieving thorn of any that are round about them, that 'did despite untol them; and they shall know that I am the Lord GOD.

25 Thus saith the Lord GOD: When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the 'peoples' among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the 'nations', then shall they dwell in their lown land which I gave to my 26 servant Jacob. And they shall dwell Isecurely therein; yea, they shall build houses, and plant vineyards, and shall dwell securely; when I have executed judgements upon all those that do them despite round about them; and they shall know that I am the LORD their God.

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In the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the twelfth day of the month, the word of the LORD came

7 Or, lemerald

8 Or, a destruction! Heb. terrors. 9 Or, be judged

2 unto me, saying, °Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against 3 all Egypt: speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have 4 made it for myself. And I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales; and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, with' all the fish of thy rivers which stick *5 unto thy scales. And I will leave

thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the 'open 'field'; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the earth' and to 6 the fowls of the heaven. And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the LORD, because they have been a staff of reed to the house 7 of Israel. When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and didst rend' all their 'shoulders': and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all their loins to 8) be at a stand. Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and will cut off 9 from thee man and beast. And the land of Egypt shall be 'a desolation' and a waste; and they shall know that I am the LORD: because he hath said, The river is mine, and I have 10) made it. "Therefore behold, I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt 'an utter waste and desolation, from the tower of 'Seveneh' even unto the 11 border of Ethiopia. No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it 12 be inhabited forty years. And I will make the land of Egypt la desolation in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be 'a desolation forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through 13 the countries. For thus saith the Lord GOD: At the end of forty years

1 Heb. face of the field.

2 Or, by the handle Another reading is, with the hand. [lxix. 23. 3 Or, as some read, Ishakel See Ps.

will I gather the Egyptians from the 'peoples' whither they were scattered: 14 and I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their birth; and they 15) shall be there a base kingdom. It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither shall it any more lift itself up above the nations: 'and' I will diminish them, that they shall no 16 more rule over the nations. ° And it shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel, 'bringing iniquity to remembrance, when they Iturn to look after them: 'and' they shall know that I am the Lord GOD.

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And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the first month, in the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, * 18 °Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled: yet had he no wages, nor his army, from Tyre', for the service that he had served against 19 it therefore thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall 'carry offi her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the (20 wages for his army. I have given

him the land of Egypt "as his recompence for which he served, because they wrought for me, saith the Lord GOD.

21) In that day will I cause 'an' horn to bud forth unto the house of Israel, and I will give thee the opening of the mouth in the midst of them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

301 The word of the LORD came again 2 unto me, saying, °Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD: Howl ye, Woe worth the day! *3 °For the day is near, even the day of

the LORD is near, a day of clouds'; it shall be the time of the heathen. 4°And 'a' sword shall come upon Egypt, and anguish shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt; and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be

LORD, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and all her helpers are destroyed. 9 In that day shall messengers go forth from 'before' me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid; and 'there! shall 'be anguish upon them, as in the day of Egypt; for, lo, it cometh.

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Thus saith the Lord GOD: I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease, by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar 11 king of Babylon. He and his people with him, 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 12 the slain. And I will make the rivers dry, and will sell the land into the hand of evil men'; and I will make the land 'desolate', and 'all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the LORD have spoken it.

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Thus saith the Lord GOD: I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause the images to cease 'from' Noph; and there shall be no more a prince 'out' of the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt. 14 And I will make Pathros desolate,

and will set 'a' fire in Zoan, and will 15 execute judgements in No. And I will pour my fury upon Sin, the 'strong hold of Egypt; and I will cut off the 16 multitude of No. And I will set lal fire in Egypt; Sin shall be in' great 'anguish, and No shall be 'broken up!: and Noph shall have adversaries in 17 the day-time!. The young men of Aven and of 'Pil-beseth shall fall by the sword: and these cities shall go 18 into captivity. At Tehaphnehes also the day shall withdraw itself1, when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt,

1 Heb. Cush.

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2 Or, the land of the covenant】 3 Or, from Migdol to Syene

4 Heb. broken.

and the 'pride of her 'power' shall cease in her as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go 19 into captivity. "Thus will I execute judgements in Egypt: and they shall know that I am the LORD.

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And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, in the seventh day of the month, that the word of 21 the LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, lo, it hath not been bound up to 'apply healing medicines', to put a roller to bind it, that it 'bel strong to hold 22 the sword. "Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong, and that which was broken; and I will cause the 23 sword to fall out of his hand. And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them 24 through the countries. And 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 shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly 25 wounded man. And I will hold up the arms of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out upon the 26 land of Egypt. And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them through the countries; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

311 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, that the word of 2 the LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, say unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom 3 art thou like in thy greatness? °Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of 'an' high stature; and his top was among the 4 thick boughs. The waters "nourished' him, the deep 'made' him to grow: her rivers Iran' round about Ther plantation'; and she sent out her channels unto all the trees of

Or, fall the day Another reading is, be dark. " Or, Iclouds

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5 the field. "Therefore his 'staturel was exalted above all the trees of the field; and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long by reason of many waters, when he 6 shot them forth. All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt 7 all great nations. Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches for his root was by many! 8) waters. The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the 'plane' trees were not 'as his branches; nor was any tree in the garden of (9 God like unto him in his beauty.

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made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him. 10 Therefore thus said the Lord GOD: Because thou art exalted' in Istature', and he hath 'set' his top among the thick boughs, and his 11 heart is lifted up in his height; I will even deliver him into the hand of the mighty one of the 'nations'; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness. 12 And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the Iwatercourses' of the land; and all the 'peoples of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him. 13) Upon his ruin all the fowls of the

heaven shall 'dwell', and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches: 14 to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, neither 'set' their top among the thick boughs, 'nor that their mighty ones! stand up in their height, even all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.

15 Thus saith the Lord GOD: In the day when he went down to hell I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the Irivers thereof, and the great waters

were stayed and I caused Lebanon 5to mourn for him, and all the trees 16 of the field fainted for him. I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to thell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the nether 17 parts of the earth. They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain by the sword; yea, they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the Inations'.

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To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, with them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.

321 And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month, that the word of 2) the LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou 'wast likened unto a young lion of the nations: yet art thou as a dragon in the seas; and thou brakest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and (3 fouledst their rivers. Thus saith the

Lord GOD: I will spread out my net over thee with a company of many 'peoples'; and they shall bring thee 4) up in my net. And I will leave thee upon the land, I will cast thee forth upon the open field, and will cause all the fowls of the heaven to Isettle' upon thee, and I will satisfy the beasts of the whole earth with 5 thee. And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys 6 with thy height. I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest, even to the mountains; and the watercourses shall be full of 7 thee. And when I shall extinguish! thee, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the 8 moon shall not give her light. All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set dark

ness upon thy land, saith the Lord 9 GOD. I will also vex the hearts of many peoples', when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not 10 known. Yea, I will make many peoples' amazed at thee, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for thee, when I shall brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, 11 in the day of thy fall. For thus saith the Lord GOD: The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee. 12 By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall; the terrible of the nations are they all: and they shall spoil the pride of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof 13 shall be destroyed. I will destroy

also all the beasts thereof from 'beside many waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them. 14 Then will I make their waters 'clear',

and cause their rivers to run like oil, 15 saith the Lord GOD. When I shall

make the land of Egypt desolate and Iwaste, a land' destitute of that whereof it was full, when I shall smite all them that dwell therein, then shall they know that I am the LORD. (16) This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament; the daughters of the nations shall lament 'therewith: for Egypt, and for all her multitude, shall they lament therewith', saith the Lord GOD.

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It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto 18 me, saying, Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go 19 down into the pit. Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou 20 laid with the uncircumcised. They

shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the sword: she is delivered to the sword: draw her away and all 21 her multitudes. The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with them that help him they are gone down, they lie 'still, even the uncircumcised, slain

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22 by the sword. Asshur is there and all her company; his graves are round about him: all of them slain, 23 fallen by the sword: whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit, and her company is round about her grave all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the (24 land of the living. There is Elam

and all her multitude round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which caused their terror in the land of the living, and have borne their shame with them that go down 25) to the pit. They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude; her graves are round about her: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for their terror was caused in the land of the living, and they have borne their shame with them that go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of them 26 that be slain. "There is Meshech,

Tubal, and all her multitude; her graves are round about her all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for they caused their terror (27 in the land of the living. 06And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to "hell with their weapons of war, and have laid their swords under their heads, and their iniquities are upon their bones; for they were the terror of the mighty in the 28 land of the living. But thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shalt lie with them 29 that are slain by the sword. There is Edom, her kings and all her princes, which in their might are laid 'with' them that are slain by the sword: they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with them that go down to the 30) pit. There be the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, which are gone down with the slain; in the terror which they caused by their might they are ashamed; and they lie uncircumcised with them that are slain by the sword, and bear their shame with 31 them that go down to the pit. °Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be com