1 And there is a word of YHWH to me, saying, 2 “Son of man, prophesy, and you have said, Thus said Lord YHWH: Howl, Aah! For the day! 3 For a day is near, a day is near to YHWH! It is a time of cloud over the nations. 4 And a sword has come into Egypt, || And there has been great pain in Cush, || In the falling of the wounded in Egypt, || And they have taken its store, || And its foundations have been broken down. 5 Cush, and Put, and Lud, and all the mixture, and Chub, || And the sons of the land of the covenant fall by sword with them, 6 Thus said YHWH: And those supporting Egypt have fallen, || And the arrogance of her strength has come down, || From Migdol to Syene, they fall by sword in her, || A declaration of Lord YHWH. 7 And they have been desolated in the midst of desolate lands, || And its cities are in the midst of cities that are laid waste. 8 And they have known that I am YHWH, || In My giving fire against Egypt, || And all her helpers have been broken. 9 In that day messengers go out from before Me in ships, || To trouble confident Cush, || And there has been great pain among them, || As the day of Egypt, for behold, it has come. 10 Thus said Lord YHWH: I have caused the multitude of Egypt to cease, || By the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, 11 He and his people with him—the terrible of nations, || Are brought in to destroy the land, || And they have drawn their swords against Egypt, || And have filled the land with the wounded. 12 And I have made floods a dry place, || And I have sold the land into the hand of evildoers, || And I have made the land desolate, || And its fullness, by the hand of strangers, || I, YHWH, have spoken. 13 Thus said Lord YHWH: And I have destroyed idols, || And caused vain things to cease from Noph, || And there is no longer a prince of the land of Egypt, || And I give fear in the land of Egypt. 14 And I have made Pathros desolate, || And I have given fire against Zoan, || And I have done judgments in No, 15 And I have poured out My fury on Sin, the stronghold of Egypt, || And I have cut off the multitude of No. 16 And I have given fire against Egypt, || Sin is greatly pained, and No is to be broken, || And Noph has daily distresses. 17 The youths of Aven and Pi-Beseth fall by sword, || And these go into captivity. 18 And the day has been dark in Tehaphnehes, || In My breaking the yokes of Egypt there, || And the excellence of her strength has ceased in her, || Her! A cloud covers her, || And her daughters go into captivity. 19 And I have done judgments in Egypt, || And they have known that I am YHWH.” 20 And it comes to pass, in the eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh of the month, a word of YHWH has been to me, saying, “Son of man, 21 I have broken the arm of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, || And behold, it has not been bound up to give healing, || To put a bandage to bind it, || To strengthen it—to lay hold on the sword. 22 Therefore, thus said Lord YHWH: Behold, I am against Pharaoh, king of Egypt, || And I have broken his arms, || The strong one and the broken one, || And have caused the sword to fall out of his hand, 23 And I have scattered the Egyptians among nations, || And have spread them through lands, 24 And I have strengthened the arms of the king of Babylon, || And have given My sword into his hand, || And I have broken the arms of Pharaoh, || And he has groaned the groans of a pierced one—before him. 25 And I have strengthened the arms of the king of Babylon, || And the arms of Pharaoh fall down, || And they have known that I am YHWH, || In My giving My sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, || And he has stretched it out toward the land of Egypt. 26 And I have scattered the Egyptians among nations, || And I have spread them through lands, || And they have known that I am YHWH!”