1In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, the word of Yehovah 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 Yehovah: Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lies in the midst of his rivers, who has said, My river is my own, and I have made it for myself. 4And 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, with all the fish of your rivers which stick to your scales. 5And I will cast you out into the wilderness, you and all the fish of your rivers: you shall fall on the open field; you shall not be brought together, nor gathered; I have given you as food to the beasts of the earth and to the birds of the heavens. 6And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am Yehovah, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel. 7When they took hold of you by your hand, you broke, and tore all their shoulders; and when they leaned on you, you broke, and made all their loins shake. 8Therefore thus says the Lord Yehovah: Behold, I will bring a sword on you, and will cut off from you man and beast. 9And the land of Egypt shall be a desolation and a waste; and they shall know that I am Yehovah. Because he has said, The river is mine, and I have made it; 10therefore, behold, I am against you, and against your rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from the tower of Seveneh even to the border of Ethiopia. 11No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, nor shall it be inhabited forty years. 12And I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of the countries that are desolate; and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be a desolation forty years; and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries. 13For thus says the Lord Yehovah: At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples where they were scattered; 14and I will bring back the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their birth; and there they shall be a lowly kingdom. 15It shall be the lowliest of the kingdoms; nor shall it any more lift itself up above the nations: and I will diminish them, that they shall no longer rule over the nations. 16And it shall no longer be the confidence of the house of Israel, bringing iniquity to remembrance, when they turn to look after them: and they shall know that I am the Lord Yehovah. 17And it happened in the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the word of Yehovah came to me, saying, 18Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was rubbed bare; yet he had no wages, nor his army, from Tyre, for the service that he had served against it. 19Therefore thus says the Lord Yehovah: Behold, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall carry off her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army. 20I have given him the land of Egypt as his recompense for which he served, because they worked for me, says the Lord Yehovah. 21On that day I will cause a horn to sprout for the house of Israel, and I will give you the opening of the mouth in the midst of them; and they shall know that I am Yehovah.