Ezekiel 29 (NKJV)

Ezekiel 29 NO HIGHLIGHTS HIGHLIGHTS
29:1 In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
29:2 ''Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against all Egypt.
29:3 ''Speak, and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: ''Behold, I am against you, O Pharaoh king of Egypt, O great monster who lies in the midst of his rivers, Who has said, 'My River is my own; I have made it for myself'.
29:4 But I will put hooks in your jaws, And cause the fish of your rivers to stick to your scales; I will bring you up out of the midst of your rivers, And all the fish in your rivers will stick to your scales.
29:5 I will leave you in the wilderness, You and all the fish of your rivers; You shall fall on the open field; You shall not be picked up or gathered. I have given you as food To the beasts of the field And to the birds of the heavens.
29:6 ''Then all the inhabitants of Egypt Shall know that I am the LORD, Because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.
29:7 When they took hold of you with the hand, You broke and tore all their shoulders; When they leaned on you, You broke and made all their backs quiver.''
29:8 'Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: ''Surely I will bring a sword upon you and cut off from you man and beast.
29:9 ''And the land of Egypt shall become desolate and waste; then they will know that I am the LORD, because he said, 'The River is mine, and I have made it'.
29:10 ''Indeed, therefore, I am against you and against your rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from Migdol to Syene, as far as the border of Ethiopia.
29:11 ''Neither foot of man shall pass through it nor foot of beast pass through it, and it shall be uninhabited forty years.
29:12 ''I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate; and among the cities that are laid waste, her cities shall be desolate forty years; and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them throughout the countries.''
29:13 'Yet, thus says the Lord GOD: ''At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples among whom they were scattered.
29:14 ''I will bring back the captives of Egypt and cause them to return to the land of Pathros, to the land of their origin, and there they shall be a lowly kingdom.
29:15 ''It shall be the lowliest of kingdoms; it shall never again exalt itself above the nations, for I will diminish them so that they will not rule over the nations anymore.
29:16 ''No longer shall it be the confidence of the house of Israel, but will remind them of their iniquity when they turned to follow them. Then they shall know that I am the Lord GOD.'''''
29:17 And it came to pass in the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
29:18 ''Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to labor strenuously against Tyre; every head was made bald, and every shoulder rubbed raw; yet neither he nor his army received wages from Tyre, for the labor which they expended on it.
29:19 ''Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: 'Surely I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; he shall take away her wealth, carry off her spoil, and remove her pillage; and that will be the wages for his army.
29:20 'I have given him the land of Egypt for his labor, because they worked for Me', says the Lord GOD.
29:21 'In that day I will cause the horn of the house of Israel to spring forth, and I will open your mouth to speak in their midst. Then they shall know that I am the LORD'.''