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¹ The word of the Lord came to me again, saying, ² “Wail, ‘Woe to the day!’ ³ It will be a day of clouds, the time of the Gentiles. ⁴ And her foundations are broken down. ⁵ “Ethiopia, Libya, Lydia, all the mingled people, Chub, and the men of the lands who are allied, shall fall with them by the sword.” ⁶ Says the Lord God. ⁷ And her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are laid waste. ⁸ And all her helpers are destroyed. ⁹ For indeed it is coming!” ¹⁰ By the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. ¹¹ And fill the land with the slain. ¹² I, the Lord, have spoken.” ¹³ I will put fear in the land of Egypt. ¹⁴ And execute judgments in No. ¹⁵ I will cut off the multitude of No, ¹⁶ And Noph shall be in distress daily. ¹⁷ And these cities shall go into captivity. ¹⁸ And her daughters shall go into captivity. ¹⁹ Then they shall know that I am the Lord.” ’ ” ²⁰ And 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, saying, ²¹ “Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and see, it has not been bandaged for healing, nor a splint put on to bind it, to make it strong enough to hold a sword. ²² Therefore thus says the Lord God: ‘Surely I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, both the strong one and the one that was broken; and I will make the sword fall out of his hand. ²³ I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them throughout the countries. ²⁴ I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon and put My sword in his hand; but I will break Pharaoh’s arms, and he will groan before him with the groanings of a mortally wounded man. ²⁵ Thus I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, but the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; they shall know that I am the Lord, when I put My sword into the hand of the king of Babylon and he stretches it out against the land of Egypt. ²⁶ I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them throughout the countries. Then they shall know that I am the Lord.’ ”