1In tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth, the message of LORD JEHOVAH was upon me, saying: 2“Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh King of Egypt, and prophesy upon him and upon all Egypt

3Speak and say, ‘Thus says THE LORD OF LORDS: behold, I am against you, Pharaoh, King of Egypt, The great Dragon that crouches within the rivers and says, “The river is mine and I have made it!”

4I shall cast a bit in your jaws and I shall stick the fish of your river to your wings, and I shall bring you up from within your river, and all the fish of your river shall stick to your wings

5And I shall throw you into the wilderness, you and all the fish of your river, and you shall fall upon the face of the field, and you shall not be gathered neither shall you be buried. I have given you for food to the beasts of the wilderness, and to the birds of Heaven

6And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I AM LORD JEHOVAH, for you have been as a staff of reed to those of the house of Israel

7When they seized you with their hands, you pierced their hands, and when they leaned upon you, you broke, and you made their loins shake

8Therefore, thus says THE LORD OF LORDS: “Behold, I bring a sword upon you, and I shall destroy from you the children of man and beast 9And the land of Egypt shall be for destruction and for the sword, and they shall know that I AM LORD JEHOVAH, because you said, "The river is mine, and I made it" 10Because of this, behold, I am against you and against your river, and I shall give the land of Egypt to destruction and to the sword, from the tower of Suna and unto the borders of Kush 11A foot of a son of man shall not cross in it, neither a hoof of cattle, and you shall not inhabit it for forty years 12And I shall give the land of Egypt to destruction among the cities that are deserted, and her cities shall be for destruction forty years among the cities that are desolate, and I shall scatter Egypt among the nations, and I shall scatter them among the countries

13Thus says THE LORD OF LORDS: after forty years I shall gather the Egyptians from the nations among whom they were scattered 14And I shall lead the captivity of Egypt and I shall settle them in the land of Pathros, in the land from which they were sold, and they shall be a humble kingdom there 15And she shall be humbler than all kingdoms, and she shall not be exalted again above the nations, and I shall diminish them that they shall not enslave nations 16And they shall not be for the hope or for the memory of evil to the house of Israel again, because they went after them, and they shall know that I AM THE LORD OF LORDS

17In twenty and seventh year, in the first month, on the first of the month, the word of LORD JEHOVAH was upon me, saying: 18“Son of man, Nebukadnetsar, King of Babel, subjected all his army to great bondage against Tyre; on every head is baldness and every shoulder is chafed, and no wage was given to him or to his army from Tyre for the slavery to which he subjected it 19Because of this, thus says THE LORD OF LORDS: “Behold, I give to Nebukadnetsar, King of Babel, the land of Egypt, and he shall take up her property, and he shall capture his captives, and he shall plunder her plundered property, and it shall be the wage for his army 20And in exchange for the service that he did in Tyre, I have given him the land of Egypt, says THE LORD OF LORDS

21In that day I shall raise the trumpet of the house of Israel, and I shall open your mouth among them, and they shall know that I AM THE LORD OF LORDS