In the tenth year,in the tenth month,on the twelfth day of the month,the word of the LORD came to me,saying,

2 "Son of man,set your face against Pharaoh king off Egypt,and prophesy agaonst him,and against all Egypt.

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 river,who has said,'My River is my own;I have made it for myself.

4 'But I will put 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.

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 fields and to the birds of the heavens.

6 "Then all the inhabitants of the Egypt shall know that I am the LORD,because they have been a staff of reed to house of Israel.

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 back quiver.

8 'Therefore thus says the LORD GOD:"Surely I will brng a sword upon you and cut off from you man and best.

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.'

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.

11"Neither foot of man shall pass through it,and it shall be uninhabited forty years.

12 "I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the counteries that are desolate;and among the cities that are laid waste,her cities shall be desolate forty years;and I will scatter the Egyptians anong the nations and disperse then throughout the counteries."

13 'Yet ,thus says the LORD GOD:"At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptiand from the peoples among whom they were scattered.

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 shall be a lowely kingdom.

15 "It shall be the lowliest of kingdom;it shall never again exalt itself above the nations,for I will dimnish them so that they will not rule over the nations anymore.

16"No longer shall be the confidence of the house of Israel,but will remind them of their iniquity when they turned to follow thm,Then They shall know I am the LORD GOD." ' "Ezekeil 29:1-16