The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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Ezekiel 30:18 (NIV)

Dark will be the day at Tahpanhes
when I break the yoke of Egypt;
there her proud strength will come to an end.
She will be covered with clouds,
and her villages will go into captivity.
 
Ezekiel 30:21 (WEB)

“Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Behold, it has not been bound up, to apply medicines,
to put a bandage to bind it, that it become strong to hold the sword.
 
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Ezekiel 30:22 (WEB)

Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong arm,
and that which was broken. I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.
 
Ezekiel 30:23 (WEB)

I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.
 
Ezekiel 30:24 (WEB)

I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand; but I will break the arms of Pharaoh,
and he will groan before the king of Babylon with the groaning of a mortally wounded man.
 
Ezekiel 30:25 (WEB)

I will hold up the arms of the king of Babylon; and the arms of Pharaoh will fall down. Then they will know that I am Yahweh, when I put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he stretches it out on the land of Egypt.
 
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Ezekiel 30:26 (WEB)

I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them through the countries.
Then they will know that I am Yahweh.’
 
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Ezekiel 31:1 (NIV)

In the eleventh year, in the third month on the first day, the word of the Lord came to me:
 
Ezekiel 31:3 (NIV)

Consider Assyria, once a cedar in Lebanon,
with beautiful branches overshadowing the forest;
it towered on high,
its top above the thick foliage.
 
Ezekiel 31:4 (NIV)

The waters nourished it,
deep springs made it grow tall;
their streams flowed
all around its base
and sent their channels
to all the trees of the field.
 
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Ezekiel 31:5 (NIV)

So it towered higher
than all the trees of the field;
its boughs increased
and its branches grew long,
spreading because of abundant waters.
 
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Ezekiel 31:6 (NIV)

All the birds of the sky
nested in its boughs,
all the wild animals
gave birth under its branches;
all the great nations
lived in its shade.
 
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Ezekiel 31:8 (CSB)

The cedars in God’s garden could not eclipse it;
the pine trees couldn’t compare with its branches,
nor could the plane trees match its boughs.
No tree in the garden of God
could compare with it in beauty.
 
Ezekiel 31:10 (CSB)

“‘Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: Since it towered high in stature and set its top among the clouds,
and it grew proud on account of its height,
 
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