1   In ^note the tenth yeare, the tenth moneth, the eleuenth day of the moneth, the word of our Lord was made to me, saying:

2   Sonne of man, set thy face against Pharao the king of Ægypt: and thou shalt prophecie of him, and of al Ægypt.

3   Speake, and thou shalt say: Thus saith our Lord God: Behold I to thee Pharao king of Ægypt, thou great dragon, which lyest in the middes of thy riuers, and sayest: The riuer is mine, and I made it my selfe.

4   And I wil put a bridle in thy iawes: and I wil fasten the fishes of thy riuers to thy scales: and I wil draw thee out of the middes of thy riuers, and al thy fishes shal sticke to thy scales.

5   And I wil cast thee forth into the desert, and al the fishes of thy riuer: thou shalt fal vpon the face of the earth, thou shalt not be collected, nor gathered together: to the beasts of the earth, and to the foules of the heauen haue I geuen thee to be deuoured.

6   And al the inhabitants of Ægypt shal know that I am the Lord: for that thou hast bene a staffe of reede to the house of Israel.

7   When they tooke thee with the hand, and thou wast broken, and didst rent al their shoulder: and they leaning vpon thee, thou wast broken, and didst dissolue al their reines.

8   Therfore thus saith our Lord God: Behold I wil bring vpon thee the sword: and wil kil out of thee man, and beast.

9   And the Land of Ægypt shal be into a desert, and into a wildernes: and they shal know that I am the Lord: for that thou hast sayd: The riuer is mine, and I made it.

10   Therfore behold I to thee, and to thy riuers: and I wil geue the Land of Ægypt into desolations, destroyed with the sword, from the tower of Syene, euen to

the borders of Æthiopia.

11   The foote of man shal not passe through it, neither shal the foote of beast goe in it: and it shal not be inhabited fourtie yeares.

12   And I wil make the Land of Ægypt desert in the middes of desert lands, & the cities therof in the middes of cities ouerthrowen, and they shal be desolate fourtie yeares: and I wil disperse the Ægyptians into nationes, and wil scatter them into the landes.

13   Because thus saith our Lord God: After the end of fourtie years I wil gather Ægypt out of the peoples in which they had bene dispersed.

14   And I wil bring backe the captiuitie of Ægypt, and wil place them in the land of Phatures, in the land of their natiuitie, and they shal be there as a low kingdom:

15   among other kingdoms it shal be lowest, and it shal no more be eleuated ouer the nations, and I wil diminish them that they rule not ouer the Gentils.

16   And they shl no more be to the house of Israel in confidence, teaching iniquitie, that they may flee, and folow them: and they shal know that I am the Lord God.

17   And it came to passe in ^note the seuen and twenteth yeare, in the first, in the first of the moneth: the word of our Lord was made to me, saying:

18   Sonne of man, Nabuchodnosor the king of Babylon hath made his armie to serue with great seruice agaynst Tyre: euerie head made bald, and euerie shoulder hath the heare plucked of: and ^note there hath bene no reward rendred him, nor his armie concerning Tyre, for the seruice that he serued me agaynst it.

19   Therfore thus sayth our Lord God: Behold I wil geue Nabuchodonsor the king of Babylon in the Land of Ægypt: and he shal take the multitude therof, and take the booties therof for a praye, and rifle the spoiles therof: and it shal be ^note a reward for his armie,

20   and for the worke, that he serued me agaynst it: I haue geuen him the Land of Ægypt, for that they haue labored for me, sayth our Lord God.

21   In that day there shal a horne spring to the house of Israel, and I wil geue thee an open mouth in the middes of them: and they shal know that I am the Lord.

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