English Bible Presentation Sharing - Ezekiel Book, chapter 29, verse 22 in Mkjv Version

Ezekiel 29 : 1 (MKJV)

In the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the twelfth of the month, the Word of Jehovah came to me, saying,

Ezekiel 29 : 2 (MKJV)

Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him and against all Egypt.

Ezekiel 29 : 3 (MKJV)

Speak and say, So says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I, even I, am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon who lies in the midst of his rivers, who has said, My river is mine, and I have made it.

Ezekiel 29 : 4 (MKJV)

But I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will cause the fish of your rivers to stick to your scales, and I will bring you up out of the midst of your rivers, and all the fish of your rivers shall stick to your scales.

Ezekiel 29 : 5 (MKJV)

And I will leave you to the wilderness, you and all the fish of your rivers. You shall fall on the open fields; you shall not be removed nor gathered. I have given you for food to the beasts of the field and to the birds of the heavens.

Ezekiel 29 : 6 (MKJV)

And all the people of Egypt shall know that I am Jehovah, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 29 : 7 (MKJV)

When they took you by your hand, you broke and tore off all their shoulder. And when they leaned on you, you shattered and made all their loins stand.

Ezekiel 29 : 8 (MKJV)

So the Lord Jehovah says this: Behold, I will bring a sword on you, and cut off man and beast from you.

Ezekiel 29 : 9 (MKJV)

And the land of Egypt shall be a desert and waste; and they shall know that I am Jehovah, because he has said, The river is mine, and I have made it.

Ezekiel 29 : 10 (MKJV)

Behold, and therefore I am against you and against your rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt a complete waste, a ruin, from Migdol to Syene, even to the border of Ethiopia.

Ezekiel 29 : 11 (MKJV)

No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, and you shall not live in it forty years.

Ezekiel 29 : 12 (MKJV)

And I will make the land of Egypt a ruin in the midst of the ruined lands; and her cities shall be deserted forty years among the cities that are laid waste. And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will scatter them through the lands.

Ezekiel 29 : 13 (MKJV)

Yet so says the Lord Jehovah: At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples where they were scattered.

Ezekiel 29 : 14 (MKJV)

And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return to the land of Pathros, into their homeland. And they shall be a low kingdom there.

Ezekiel 29 : 15 (MKJV)

It shall be the lowest of the kingdoms, and shall no more exalt itself above the nations. For I will make them so few, that they shall no more rule over the nations.

Ezekiel 29 : 16 (MKJV)

And it shall never again be the hope of the house of Israel, recalling the iniquity of their turning after them. And they shall know that I am the Lord Jehovah.

Ezekiel 29 : 17 (MKJV)

And it happened in the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, in the first of the month, the Word of Jehovah came to me, saying,

Ezekiel 29 : 18 (MKJV)

Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre. Every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled. Yet neither he nor his army had any pay for Tyre, for the service that he had served against it.

Ezekiel 29 : 19 (MKJV)

So the Lord Jehovah says this: Behold, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. And he shall take her host, and take her spoil, and seize her plunder. And it shall be the wages for his army.

Ezekiel 29 : 20 (MKJV)

I have given him the land of Egypt for his labor with which he served against it, because they worked for Me, says the Lord Jehovah.

Ezekiel 29 : 21 (MKJV)

In that day I will make a horn spring up to the house of Israel, and I will give you the opening of the mouth in their midst. And they shall know that I am Jehovah.