1. Yahweh’s word came again to me, saying,
2. Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Wail, Alas for the day!
3. For the day is near, even the day of Yahweh is near; it shall be a day of clouds, a time of the nations.
4. A sword shall come on Egypt, and anguish shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt; and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down.
5. Ethiopia, and Put, and Lud, and all the mixed people, and Cub, and the children of the land that is allied with them, shall fall with them by the sword.
6. Yahweh says: They also who uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: they shall fall by the sword in it from the tower of Seveneh, says the Lord Yahweh.
7. They shall be desolate in the middle of the countries that are desolate; and her cities shall be in the middle of the cities that are wasted.