The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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Ezekiel 28:25 (NIV)

“‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: When I gather the people of Israel from the nations where they have been scattered, I will be proved holy through them in the sight of the nations. Then they will live in their own land, which
I gave to my servant Jacob.

 

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Ezekiel 28:26 (NIV)

They will live there in safety and will build houses and plant vineyards; they will live in safety when I inflict punishment
on all their neighbors who maligned them. Then they will know that I am the Lord their God.’”

 

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Ezekiel 29:1 (NASB)

In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

 

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Ezekiel 29:2 (NASB)

“Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him and against all Egypt.

 

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Ezekiel 29:3 (NASB)

Speak and say, ‘This is what the Lord God says:

“Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt,
The great monster that lies in the midst of his canals,
That has said, ‘My Nile is mine, and I myself have made it.’

 

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Ezekiel 29:4 (NASB)

I will put hooks in your jaws
And make the fish of your canals cling to your scales.
And I will bring you up out of the midst of your canals,
And all the fish of your canals will cling to your scales.

 

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Ezekiel 29:5 (NASB)

I will abandon you to the wilderness, you and all the fish of your canals;
You will fall on the open field; you will not be brought together or gathered.
I have given you for food to the animals of the earth and to the birds of the sky.

 

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Ezekiel 29:6 (NASB)

Then all the inhabitants of Egypt will know that I am the Lord,
Because they have been only a staff made of reed to the house of Israel.

 

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Ezekiel 29:7 (NASB)

When they took hold of you with the hand, You broke and tore all their hands;
And when they leaned on you,You broke and made all their hips shake.”

 

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Ezekiel 29:8 (NASB)

‘Therefore the Lord God says this: “Behold, I am going to bring upon you a sword, and I will cut off from you
human and animal life.

 

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Ezekiel 29:9 (NASB)

The land of Egypt will become a desolation and place of ruins. Then they will know that I am the Lord.

 

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Ezekiel 29:9 (NASB) Should read:

The land of Egypt will become a desolation and place of ruins. Then they will know that I am the Lord.

“Because you said, ‘The Nile is mine, and I have made it,

 

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Ezekiel 29:10 (NIV)

therefore I am against you and against your streams, and I will make the land of Egypt a ruin and a desolate waste
from Migdol to Aswan, as far as the border of Cush.

 

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Ezekiel 29:11 (NIV)

The foot of neither man nor beast will pass through it; no one will live there for forty years.

 

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Ezekiel 29:12 (NIV)

I will make the land of Egypt desolate among devastated lands, and her cities will lie desolate for forty years
among ruined cities. And I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them through the countries.

 

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Ezekiel 29:13 (NIV)

“‘Yet this is what the Sovereign Lord says: At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the nations
where they were scattered.

 

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Ezekiel 29:14 (NIV)

I will bring them back from captivity and return them to Upper Egypt, the land of their ancestry.
There they will be a lowly kingdom.

 

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Ezekiel 29:15 (NIV)

It will be the lowliest of kingdoms and will never again exalt itself above the other nations.
I will make it so weak that it will never again rule over the nations.

 

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Ezekiel 29:16 (NIV)

Egypt will no longer be a source of confidence for the people of Israel but will be a reminder of their sin in turning
to her for help. Then they will know that I am the Sovereign Lord.’”

 

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Ezekiel 29:17 (KJV)

And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the first month, in the first day of the month,
the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,