Ezekiel 30

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

Wail, ‘Alas for the day!’
³     For a day is near,
    the day of the Lord is near;
it will be a day of clouds,
    a time of doom^[a] for the nations.
⁴ A sword shall come upon Egypt,
    and anguish shall be in Ethiopia,^[b]
when the slain fall in Egypt,
    and its wealth is carried away,
    and its foundations are torn down.

I will put an end to the hordes of Egypt,
    by the hand of King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon.
¹¹ He and his people with him, the most terrible of the nations,
    shall be brought in to destroy the land;
and they shall draw their swords against Egypt,
    and fill the land with the slain.
¹² I will dry up the channels,
    and will sell the land into the hand of evildoers;
I will bring desolation upon the land and everything in it
    by the hand of foreigners;
I the Lord have spoken.

I will destroy the idols
    and put an end to the images in Memphis;
there shall no longer be a prince in the land of Egypt;
    so I will put fear in the land of Egypt.
¹⁴ I will make Pathros a desolation,
    and will set fire to Zoan,
    and will execute acts of judgement on Thebes.
¹⁵ I will pour my wrath upon Pelusium,
    the stronghold of Egypt,
    and cut off the hordes of Thebes.
¹⁶ I will set fire to Egypt;
    Pelusium shall be in great agony;
Thebes shall be breached,
    and Memphis face adversaries by day.
¹⁷ The young men of On and of Pi-beseth shall fall by the sword;
    and the cities themselves^[h] shall go into captivity.
¹⁸ At Tehaphnehes the day shall be dark,
    when I break there the dominion of Egypt,
and its proud might shall come to an end;
    the city^[i] shall be covered by a cloud,
    and its daughter-towns shall go into captivity.
¹⁹ Thus I will execute acts of judgement on Egypt.
    Then they shall know that I am the Lord.