1In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,2Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt and prophesy against him and against all Egypt.3Speak and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon who lies in the midst of his Nile, who said, My Nile is mine, and I made myself.4And I will put hooks in your jaws and cause the fish of your Nile to cling to your scales; I will bring you up from the midst of your Nile, and all the fish of your Nile will cling to your scales.5And I will cast you into the wilderness, you and all the fish of your Nile; you shall fall on the face of the field and shall not be gathered or buried, and I have given you as food to the beasts of the land and to the birds of the heavens.6And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the LORD, because they were a staff of reed to the house of Israel.7When they seize you with the hand, you shall crush the hand, and you shall break every shoulder for them; and when they lean upon you, you shall be broken and shall make all their loins shake.8Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am bringing a sword against you and will cut off from you man and beast.9And the land of Egypt shall become a waste and a desolation, and they shall know that I am the LORD, because he said, The Nile is mine, and I made it.10Therefore, behold, I am against you and against your Nile, and I will make the land of Egypt a desolation of desolations and a waste, from Migdol to Syene and as far as the border of Cush.11No foot of man shall pass through it, and no foot of beast shall pass through it, and it shall not be inhabited for forty years.12And I will make the land of Egypt a waste in the midst of desolate lands, and her cities shall lie waste among ruined cities for forty years; and I will scatter Egypt among the nations and disperse them throughout the lands.13For thus says the Lord GOD: At the end of forty years I will gather Egypt from the peoples among whom they were scattered.14And I will restore the captivity of Egypt and bring them back to the land of Pathros, to the land of their origin, and they shall be a lowly kingdom there.15It shall be the lowest of the kingdoms and shall never again exalt itself above the nations; I will make them few so that they will not rule over the nations.16And it shall no longer be a confidence for the house of Israel, bringing iniquity to remembrance when they turn after them; and they shall know that I am the Lord GOD.17And it came about in the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first of the month, that the word of the LORD came to me, saying,18Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made his army perform a great service against Tyre; every head was made bald and every shoulder rubbed bare, yet neither he nor his army received wages from Tyre for the service he performed against her.19Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am giving the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; he shall carry off its multitude and plunder its spoil and seize its plunder, and it shall become wages for his army.20I have given him the land of Egypt as his wages for the service he rendered against her, because they acted against me, declares the Lord GOD.21On that day I will cause a horn to spring up for the house of Israel, and I will open your mouth in their midst, and they shall know that I am the LORD.