Ezekiel 29

Ezekiel 29:3

Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh, king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.

Behold, I am thy professed enemy, O Pharaoh, the proud king of Egypt; who like a great dragon or whale, lies securely in those watery regions of thine, and hast said, Nilus is my own; no enemy can take it from me. CZERIEL, CHAP. XXVIII.—XXIX.

Ezekiel 29:4

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

But I will put the hooks of the king of Babylon into thy jaws, and will draw thee out of those watery forts of thine, and drag thee up to the dry land; and, for thy princes and people, which are as the lesser sort of fishes, they also, as sticking to thy scales, shall be plucked out with thee.

Ezekiel 29:5

And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open fields; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the field, and to the fowls of the heaven.

And I will leave thee upon the Lybian sands, exposed as a prey to the fowls of the air and the beasts of the field; both thee and thy princes and people: thou shalt be slain, and thine army, in the open fields; and there shall ye lie scattered, and shall not be brought together for sepulture.

Ezekiel 29:6

Because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.

They have been a deceitful and untrusty stay to the house of Israel; like a crazy reed, which breaks under the hand of him that leans upon it.

Ezekiel 29:10

From the tower of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia.

From the south borders of Egypt unto the north, shall the land be utterly desolate.

Ezekiel 29:11

No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.

It shall lie waste and uninhabited, without traffic, without culture, for the space of forty years.

Ezekiel 29:14

And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, &c.

They shall return again, to re-inhabit, as well the midland country, as the skirts and borders of Egypt, their native land; and they shall be there restored to a tributary state, under the Persians.

Ezekiel 29:18

Every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled; yet had he no wages, nor his army, for Tyrus, for the service that he had served against it.

Every man had worn his hair from off his head, and his skin from his shoulders, in carrying burdens for raising up mounts against Tyrus; yet he did not find that booty for his army therein, which he expected.

Ezekiel 29:21

In that day will I cause the horn of the house of Israel to bud forth, and I will give thee the opening of the mouth in the midst of them, and they shall know that I am the LORD.

In that day will I raise up Israel again, to a recovery of M M 2 strength and comfort; and will cause the mouths of my people to be opened, in the confession and praise of my name amongst the Babylonians; and they shall know and acknowledge me to be the Lord.