April 587 B.C. See Ez. 30.20. Proclamation Against Pharoah.
April 587 B.C. See Ez. 30.20. Proclamation Against Pharoah. For God so loved pagan Egypt, that he sent them a love note and His words of wrath. Oh no, not that! Words for our Marcionite times with the parallel worldview and alternative views of God’s holiness, sovereignty and more. Oh no, not Ezekiel! And now, for some corrections and recalibrations in mind and attitude from Ezekiel, words that are profitable for doctrine, correction, and reproofs (2 Tim. 3.16-17).
Ezekiel 30
1599 Geneva Bible (GNV)—that famous Bible that had 144 print-runs
from 1560 to 1640 in England and that scholarly, Reformed Bible that the
anti-Genevan Laudians and Arminians in England abhorred.
30 The destruction of Egypt
and the cities thereof.
1 The word of the Lord came
again unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, prophesy, and
say, Thus saith the Lord God, Howl and cry, Woe be unto this day.
3 For the day is near, and
the day of the Lord is at hand, a cloudy day, and it shall be the time
of the heathen.
4 And the sword shall come
upon Egypt, and fear shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt,
when they shall take away her multitude, and when her foundations shall
be broken down.
5 [a]Ethiopia
and Put, and Lud, and all the common people, and Chub, and the men of the land,
that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword.
6 Thus saith the Lord, They
also that maintain Egypt, shall fall, and the pride of her power shall come
down: from the tower of [b]Syene
shall they fall by the sword, saith the Lord God.
7 And they shall be
desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities shall
be in the midst of the cities that are wasted.
8 And they shall know that
I am the Lord, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and when all her helpers
shall be destroyed.
9 In that day shall there
messengers go forth from me in ships, to make the careless Moors afraid, and
fear shall come upon them, as in the day of Egypt: for lo, it cometh.
10 Thus saith the Lord God,
I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babel.
11 For he and his people
with him, even the terrible nations shall be brought to destroy the
land: and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with
the slain.
12 And I will make the
rivers dry, and sell the land into the hands of the wicked, and I will make the
land waste, and all that therein is by the hands of strangers: I the Lord have
spoken it.
13 Thus saith the Lord God,
I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause their idols to cease out of [c]Noph,
and there shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt, and I will send a
fear in the land of Egypt.
14 And I will make Pathros
desolate, and will set fire in [d]Zoan,
and I will execute judgment in No.
15 And I will pour my wrath
upon [e]Sin, which
is the strength of Egypt: and I will destroy the multitude of [f]No.
16 And I will set fire in
Egypt: Sin shall have great sorrow, and No shall be destroyed, and Noph shall
have sorrows daily.
17 The young men of [g]Aven,
and of [h]Pi
Beseth shall fall by the sword: and these cities shall go into
captivity.
18 At Tehaphnehes the day [i]shall
restrain his light, when I shall break there the [j]bars of
Egypt: and when the pomp of her power shall cease in her, the cloud shall cover
her, and her daughters shall go into captivity.
19 Thus will I execute
judgments in Egypt, and they shall know that I am the Lord.
20 ¶ And in the [k]eleventh
year, in the first month, and in the seventh day of the month,
the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
21 Son of man, [l]I have
broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt: and lo, it shall not be bound up to be
healed, neither shall they put a roll to bind it, and so make it strong
to hold the sword.
22 Therefore thus saith the
Lord God, Behold, I come against Pharaoh King of Egypt, and will break [m]his arm
that was strong, but is broken, and I will cause the sword to fall out of his
hand.
23 And I will scatter the
Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.
24 And I will strengthen the
arm of the king of Babel, and put my sword in his hand, but I will break
Pharaoh’s arms, and he shall cast out sighings, as the sighings of him that is
wounded before him.
25 But I will strengthen the
arms of the king of Babel, and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down, and they
shall know, that I am the Lord, [n]when I
shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babel, and he shall stretch it
out upon the land of Egypt.
26 And I will scatter the
Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among the countries, and they
shall know, that I am the Lord.
Footnotes:
n.
Ezekiel
30:25
Whereby we see that tyrants have no power of themselves, neither can do anymore
harm than God appointeth, and when he will they must cease.
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