Ezekiel 29:7-9

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁷when they grasped you with the hand, you broke,
and tore all their shoulders;
and when they leaned on you, you broke,
and made all their legs unsteady.^[a]

⁸Therefore, thus says the Lord God: I will bring a sword upon you, and will cut off from you human being and animal; ⁹and the land of Egypt shall be a desolation and a waste. Then they shall know that I am the Lord.

Because you^[b] said, ‘The Nile is mine, and I made it’,

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Ezekiel 29:7 Syr: Heb stand
Ezekiel 29:9 Gk Syr Vg: Heb he

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