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Ezekiel 29:8-12
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Ezekiel 29:8-12
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8 “‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will bring a sword against you and kill both man and beast.(A) 9 Egypt will become a desolate wasteland. Then they will know that I am the Lord.
“‘Because you said, “The Nile(B) is mine; I made it,(C)” 10 therefore I am against you(D) and against your streams, and I will make the land of Egypt(E) a ruin and a desolate waste(F) from Migdol(G) to Aswan,(H) as far as the border of Cush.[a](I) 11 The foot of neither man nor beast will pass through it; no one will live there for forty years.(J) 12 I will make the land of Egypt desolate(K) among devastated lands, and her cities will lie desolate forty years among ruined cities. And I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them through the countries.(L)
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- Ezekiel 29:10 That is, the upper Nile region
Ezekiel 29:8-12
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Ezekiel 29:8-12
King James Version
8 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and cut off man and beast out of thee.
9 And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; and they shall know that I am the Lord: because he hath said, The river is mine, and I have made it.
10 Behold, therefore I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from the tower of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia.
11 No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.
12 And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.
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Ezekiel 30:12
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Ezekiel 30:12
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12 I will dry up(A) the waters of the Nile(B)
and sell the land to an evil nation;
by the hand of foreigners
I will lay waste(C) the land and everything in it.
I the Lord have spoken.
Ezekiel 30:12
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Ezekiel 30:12
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12 And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the Lord have spoken it.
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Ezekiel 32:15
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Ezekiel 32:15
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15 When I make Egypt desolate
and strip the land of everything in it,
when I strike down all who live there,
then they will know that I am the Lord.(A)’
Ezekiel 32:15
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Ezekiel 32:15
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15 When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and the country shall be destitute of that whereof it was full, when I shall smite all them that dwell therein, then shall they know that I am the Lord.
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