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Ezekiel 29:11In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, the Lord’ s message came to me:Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 26:1Ezek 29:17Ezek 20:1Ezek 1:2Ezek 40:1Ezek 8:1
Ezekiel 29:22“Son of man, turn toward Pharaoh king of Egypt and prophesy against him and against all Egypt.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 6:2Jer 44:30Jer 46:2-16Ezek 20:46Ezek 21:2Ezek 25:2Ezek 28:21-22Ezek 30:1-32:32Isa 18:1-19:17Isa 20:1-6
Ezekiel 29:33Tell them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: “‘Look, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster lying in the midst of its waterways, who has said, “My Nile is my own, I made it for myself.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 32:2Isa 27:1Jer 44:30Deut 8:17Ezek 29:9-10Dan 4:30-31Ezek 28:2Ezek 28:22Isa 10:13-14Nah 1:6
Ezekiel 29:44I will put hooks in your jaws and stick the fish of your waterways to your scales. I will haul you up from the midst of your waterways, and all the fish of your waterways will stick to your scales.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 19:28Ezek 38:4Amos 4:2Hab 1:14-15Isa 37:29Job 41:1-2
Ezekiel 29:55I will leave you in the wilderness, you and all the fish of your waterways; you will fall in the open field and will not be gathered up or collected. I have given you as food to the beasts of the earth and the birds of the skies.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 32:4-6Jer 34:20Jer 7:33Jer 8:2Jer 25:33Ps 110:5-61 Sam 17:44Ezek 31:18Ezek 39:11-20Ezek 39:4-6
Ezekiel 29:66Then all those living in Egypt will know that I am the Lord because they were a reed staff for the house of Israel;Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 18:21Isa 36:6Exod 14:18Exod 9:14Ezek 28:22-24Ezek 28:26Isa 20:5-6Isa 30:2-7Isa 31:1-3Jer 2:36
Ezekiel 29:77when they grasped you with their hand, you broke and tore their shoulders, and when they leaned on you, you splintered and caused their legs to be unsteady.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 36:6Ezek 17:15-17Jer 17:5-6Jer 37:5-11Prov 25:19Ps 118:8-9Ps 146:3-4
Ezekiel 29:88“‘Therefore, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Look, I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will kill every person and every animal.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 14:17Exod 12:12Ezek 25:13Ezek 29:19-20Ezek 30:10Ezek 30:4Ezek 32:10-13Gen 6:7Jer 32:43Jer 46:13-26
Ezekiel 29:99The land of Egypt will become a desolate ruin. Then they will know that I am the Lord. “‘Because he said, “The Nile is mine and I made it,”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 29:3Ezek 29:10-12Prov 16:18Prov 18:12Ezek 30:13-19Ezek 30:7-8Jer 43:10-13Prov 29:23
Ezekiel 29:1010I am against you and your waterways. I will turn the land of Egypt into an utter desolate ruin from Migdol to Syene, as far as the border with Ethiopia.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 30:12Exod 14:2Ezek 29:11Ezek 30:6-9Hab 3:8Jer 44:1Jer 46:14
Ezekiel 29:1111No human foot will pass through it, and no animal’s foot will pass through it; it will be uninhabited for forty years.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 32:13Jer 43:11-122 Chr 36:21Dan 9:2Ezek 30:10-13Ezek 31:12Ezek 33:28Ezek 36:28Isa 23:15Isa 23:17
Ezekiel 29:1212I will turn the land of Egypt into a desolation in the midst of desolate lands; for forty years her cities will lie desolate in the midst of ruined cities. I will scatter Egypt among the nations and disperse them among foreign countries.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 30:23Ezek 30:7Jer 46:19Ezek 30:26Jer 25:15-19Jer 27:6-11
Ezekiel 29:1313“‘For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: At the end of forty years I will gather Egypt from the peoples where they were scattered.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 19:22Jer 46:26
Ezekiel 29:1414I will restore the fortunes of Egypt and will bring them back to the land of Pathros, to the land of their origin; there they will be an insignificant kingdom.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 30:14Isa 11:11Jer 44:11 Chr 1:12Gen 10:14
Ezekiel 29:1515It will be the most insignificant of the kingdoms; it will never again exalt itself over the nations. I will make them so small that they will not rule over the nations.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 30:13Zech 10:11Ezek 17:14Ezek 17:6Ezek 31:2Ezek 32:2Nah 3:8-9Dan 11:42-43
Ezekiel 29:1616It will never again be Israel’s source of confidence, but a reminder of how they sinned by turning to Egypt for help. Then they will know that I am the Sovereign Lord.’”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 29:6-7Hos 8:13Isa 20:5Ezek 21:23Isa 30:1-6Isa 64:9Jer 14:10Jer 2:36-37Lam 4:17Ps 25:7
Ezekiel 29:1717In the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the Lord’ s message came to me:Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 29:1Ezek 1:2Ezek 24:1
Ezekiel 29:1818“Son of man, King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon made his army labor hard against Tyre. Every head was rubbed bald and every shoulder rubbed bare; yet he and his army received no wages from Tyre for the work he carried out against it.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 27:6Ezek 26:7-12Jer 25:9Jer 48:37
Ezekiel 29:1919Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Look, I am about to give the land of Egypt to King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon. He will carry off her wealth, capture her loot, and seize her plunder; it will be his army’s wages.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 30:24-25Jer 43:10-13Ezek 30:10-12Ezek 32:11Ezek 30:4Ezek 29:8-10
Ezekiel 29:2020I have given him the land of Egypt as his compensation for attacking Tyre, because they did it for me, declares the Sovereign Lord.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 10:6-7Jer 25:9Isa 45:1-32 Kgs 10:30
Ezekiel 29:2121On that day I will make Israel powerful, and I will give you the right to be heard among them. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 2:10Luke 21:15Ps 132:17Amos 3:7-8Ezek 24:27Ezek 33:22Luke 1:69Ps 92:10Col 4:3-4Ezek 28:25-26
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