1. the Lord’s word came again to me, saying,
2. “Son of man, prophesy, and say, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD:“Wail, ‘Alas for the day!’
3. For the day is near,even the Lord’s day is near.It will be a day of clouds,a time of the nations.
4. A sword will come on Egypt,and anguish will be in Ethiopia,when the slain fall in Egypt.They take away her multitude,and her foundations are broken down.
5. “‘“Ethiopia, Put, Lud, all the mixed people, Cub, and the children of the land that is allied with them, will fall with them by the sword.”
6. “‘the Lord says:“They also who uphold Egypt will fall.The pride of her power will come down.They will fall by the sword in it from the tower of Seveneh,”says the Lord GOD.
7. “They will be desolate in the middle of the countries that are desolate.Her cities will be amongst the cities that are wasted.
8. They will know that I am the Lordwhen I have set a fire in Egypt,and all her helpers are destroyed.
9. “‘“In that day messengers will go out from before me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid. There will be anguish on them, as in the day of Egypt; for, behold, it comes.”
10. “‘Thus says the Lord GOD:“I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease,by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.
11. He and his people with him,the terrible of the nations,will be brought in to destroy the land.They will draw their swords against Egypt,and fill the land with the slain.
12. I will make the rivers dry,and will sell the land into the hand of evil men.I will make the land desolate,and all that is therein,by the hand of strangers:I, the Lord, have spoken it.”