all dwell with confidence, when I shall
have executed judgments upon all that are their enemies round about: and
they shall know that I am the Lord their God.

Ezechiel Chapter 29

The king of Egypt shall be overthrown, and his kingdom wasted: it shall
be given to Nabuchodonosor for his service against Tyre.

29:1. In the tenth year, the tenth month, the eleventh day of the month,
the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

29:2. Son of man, set thy face against Pharao king of Egypt: and thou
shalt prophesy of him, and of all Egypt:

29:3. Speak, and say: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I come against
thee, Pharao king of Egypt, thou great dragon that liest in the midst of
thy rivers, and sayest: The river is mine, and I made myself.

29:4. But I will put a bridle in thy jaws: and I will cause the fish of
thy rivers to stick to thy scales: and I will draw thee out of the midst
of thy rivers, and all thy fish shall stick to thy scales.

29:5. And I will cast thee forth into the desert, and all the fish of
thy river: thou shalt fall upon the face of the earth, thou shalt not be
taken up, nor gathered together: I have given thee for meat to the
beasts of the earth, and to the fowls of the air.

29:6. And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the Lord:
because thou hast been a staff of a reed to the house of Israel.

29:7. When they took hold of thee with the hand thou didst break, and
rent all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brokest,
and weakenest all their loins.

29:8. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will bring the sword
upon thee: and cut off man and beast out of thee.

29:9. And the land of Egypt shall become a desert, and a wilderness: and
they shall know that I am the Lord, because thou hast said: The river is
mine, and I made it.

29:10. Therefore, behold I come against thee, and thy rivers: and I will
make the land of Egypt utterly desolate, and wasted by the sword, from
the tower of Syene, even to the borders of Ethiopia.

29:11. The foot of man shall not pass through it, neither shall the foot
of beasts go through it: nor shall it be inhabited during forty years.

29:12. And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the
lands that are desolate, and the cities thereof in the midst of the
cites that are destroyed, and they shall be desolate for forty years:
and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse
them through the