1. And the word of יהוה came to me, saying,
2. “Son of man, prophesy and say, ‘Thus said the Master יהוה, “Howl, ‘Woe to the day!’
3. “For the day is near, even the day of יהוה is near. It is a day of clouds, the time of the nations.
4. “The sword shall come upon Mitsrayim, and great anguish shall be in Kush, when the slain fall in Mitsrayim, and they take away her wealth, and her foundations are broken down.
5. “Kush, and Put, and Luḏ, all the mixed people, and Kuḇ, and the sons of the land of the covenant, shall fall with them by the sword.”
6. ‘Thus said יהוה, “Those who lean on Mitsrayim shall fall, and the pride of her power shall come down. From Mig̅dol to Sewĕnĕh those within her shall fall by the sword,” declares the Master יהוה.
7. “They shall be ruined amidst the wasted lands, and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are dried up.
8. “And they shall know that I am יהוה, when I have set a fire in Mitsrayim and all her helpers are crushed.
9. “On that day messengers shall go forth before Me in ships to make the complacent Kushites afraid, and great anguish shall come upon them, as on the day of Mitsrayim – for look, it is coming!”
10. ‘Thus said the Master יהוה, “I shall cause the crowd of Mitsrayim to cease, by the hand of Neḇuḵaḏretstsar sovereign of Baḇel.
11. “He and his people with him, the ruthless ones of the nations, are brought to destroy the land. And they shall draw their swords against Mitsrayim, and shall fill the land with the slain.
12. “And I shall make the rivers dry, and I shall sell the land into the hand of evil ones. And I shall lay the land waste, and all that is in it, by the hand of foreigners. I, יהוה, have spoken.”
13. ‘Thus said the Master יהוה, “And I shall destroy the idols, and make an end of the images in Noph, and there shall no longer be a prince from the land of Mitsrayim, and I shall put fear in the land of Mitsrayim.