1 In die tiende jaar, in die tiende maand, op die twaalfde van die maand, het die woord van die HERE tot my gekom en gesê:

2 Mensekind, rig jou aangesig teen Farao, die koning van Egipte, en profeteer teen hom en teen die hele Egipte.

3 Spreek en sê: So spreek die Here HERE: Kyk, Ek het dit teen jou, o Farao, koning van Egipte, jou groot draak wat in jou strome lê, wat sê: My stroom is myne, en ek het dit vir my gemaak.

4 Maar Ek sal hake in jou kakebene slaan en die visse van jou strome aan jou skubbe laat klewe; en Ek sal jou uit jou strome optrek, saam met al die visse van jou strome wat aan jou skubbe klewe.

5 En Ek sal jou wegwerp in die woestyn, jou en al die visse van jou strome; op die oop veld sal jy val; jy sal nie bymekaargemaak of versamel word nie; aan die wilde diere van die aarde en aan die voëls van die hemel gee Ek jou as voedsel.

6 En al die inwoners van Egipte sal weet dat Ek die HERE is, omdat hulle vir die huis van Israel 'n rietstok is --

7 as Israel jou met die hand aanvat, knak jy en skeur hulle hele skouer oop; en as hulle op jou leun, dan breek jy en laat al hulle lendene wankel.

8 Daarom, so sê die Here HERE: Kyk, Ek bring die swaard oor jou en sal mens en dier uit jou uitroei.

9 En Egipteland sal 'n wildernis en puinhoop word, en hulle sal weet dat Ek die HERE is. Omdat hy sê: Die Nyl is myne, en ek het dit gemaak --

10 daarom, kyk, Ek het dit teen jou en teen jou strome; en Ek sal Egipteland 'n volkome puinhoop maak, 'n wildernis van Migdol af tot by Siëne, en tot by die grens van Kus.

11 Geen mens se voet sal daar deurgaan nie, en geen dier se poot sal daar deurgaan nie, en dit sal veertig jaar lank onbewoond wees.

12 En Ek sal Egipteland 'n wildernis maak tussen verwoeste lande in, en sy stede sal 'n wildernis wees tussen verwoeste stede in, veertig jaar lank; en Ek sal die Egiptenaars verstrooi onder die nasies en hulle versprei in die lande.

13 Want so sê die Here HERE: Aan die einde van veertig jaar sal Ek die Egiptenaars versamel uit die volke waarheen hulle verstrooi was.

14 En Ek sal die lot van die Egiptenaars verander en hulle laat teruggaan na die land Patros, na die land van hulle oorsprong; en daar sal hulle 'n koninkryk van geringe betekenis wees.

15 En dit sal geringer wees as die ander koninkryke en hom nie meer bo die nasies verhef nie; en Ek sal hulle klein maak, sodat hulle nie heers oor die nasies nie.

16 En dit sal vir die huis van Israel geen voorwerp van vertroue meer wees, wat die ongeregtigheid in gedagtenis bring as Israel omdraai agter hulle aan nie; en hulle sal weet dat Ek die Here HERE is.

17 En in die sewe en twintigste jaar, in die eerste maand, op die eerste van die maand, het die woord van die HERE tot my gekom en gesê:

18 Mensekind, Nebukadr,sar, die koning van Babel, het sy leër 'n swaar diens teen Tirus laat verrig: elke hoof het kaal geword en elke skouer is seer geskaaf. Maar hy en ook sy leër het van Tirus geen loon ontvang vir die krygsdiens wat hy daarteen verrig het nie.

19 Daarom, so sê die Here HERE: Kyk, Ek gee Egipteland aan Nebukadr,sar, die koning van Babel, en hy sal die rykdom daarvan wegdra en die buit daarvan buitmaak en die roof daarvan rowe, en dit sal die loon vir sy leër wees.

20 As sy arbeidsloon waar hy voor gedien het, gee Ek hom Egipteland, omdat hulle vir My gewerk het, spreek die Here HERE.

21 In die dag sal Ek vir die huis van Israel 'n horing laat uitspruit, en Ek sal vir jou opening van die mond gee onder hulle; en hulle sal weet dat Ek die HERE is.

1 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, let your face be turned against Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and be a prophet against him and against all Egypt:

3 Say to them, These are the words of the Lord: See, I am against you, Pharaoh, king of Egypt, the great river-beast stretched out among his Nile streams, who has said, The Nile is mine, and I have made it for myself.

4 And I will put hooks in your mouth, and the fish of your streams will be hanging from your skin; and I will make you come up out of your streams, with all the fish of your streams hanging from your skin.

5 And I will let you be in the waste land, you and all the fish of your streams: you will go down on the face of the land; you will not be taken up or put to rest in the earth; I have given you for food to the beasts of the field and the birds of the heaven.

6 And it will be clear to all the people of Egypt that I am the Lord, because you have been a false support to the children of Israel.

7 When they took a grip of you in their hands, you were crushed so that their arms were broken: and when they put their weight on you for support, you were broken and all their muscles gave way.

8 For this cause the Lord has said: See, I am sending a sword on you, cutting off from you man and beast.

9 And the land of Egypt will be an unpeopled waste; and they will be certain that I am the Lord: because he has said, The Nile is mine, and I made it.

10 See, then, I am against you and against your streams, and I will make the land of Egypt an unpeopled waste, from Migdol to Syene, even as far as the edge of Ethiopia.

11 No foot of man will go through it and no foot of beast, and it will be unpeopled for forty years.

12 I will make the land of Egypt a waste among the countries which are made waste, and her towns will be unpeopled among the towns which have been made waste, for forty years: and I will send the Egyptians in flight among the nations and wandering through the countries.

13 For this is what the Lord has said: At the end of forty years I will get the Egyptians together from the peoples where they have gone in flight:

14 I will let the fate of Egypt be changed, and will make them come back into the land of Pathros, into the land from which they came; and there they will be an unimportant kingdom.

15 It will be the lowest of the kingdoms, and never again will it be lifted up over the nations: I will make them small, so that they may not have rule over the nations.

16 And Egypt will no longer be the hope of the children of Israel, causing sin to come to mind when their eyes are turned to them: and they will be certain that I am the Lord.

17 Now in the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

18 Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, made his army do hard work against Tyre, and the hair came off every head and every arm was rubbed smooth: but he and his army got no payment out of Tyre for the hard work which he had done against it.

19 For this cause the Lord has said: See, I am giving the land of Egypt to Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon: he will take away her wealth, and take her goods by force and everything which is there; and this will be the payment for his army.

20 I have given him the land of Egypt as the reward for his hard work, because they were working for me, says the Lord.

21 In that day I will make a horn put out buds for the children of Israel, and I will let your words come freely among them, and they will be certain that I am the Lord.