Ezekiel 30:1-19

30¹ God, the Master, spoke to me: ² "Son of man, preach. Give them the Message of God, the Master. Wail: ³ "'Doomsday!' Time's up! God's big day of judgment is near. Thick clouds are rolling in. It's doomsday for the nations. ⁴ Death will rain down on Egypt. Terror will paralyze Ethiopia When they see the Egyptians killed, their wealth hauled off, their foundations demolished, ⁵ And Ethiopia, Put, Lud, Arabia, Libya - all of Egypt's old allies - killed right along with them. ⁶ "'God says: "'Egypt's allies will fall and her proud strength will collapse - From Migdol in the north to Syene in the south, a great slaughter in Egypt! Decree of God, the Master. ⁷ Egypt, most desolate of the desolate, her cities wasted beyond wasting, ⁸ Will realize that I am God when I burn her down and her helpers are knocked flat. ⁹ "'When that happens, I'll send out messengers by ship to sound the alarm among the easygoing Ethiopians. They'll be terrorized. Egypt's doomed! Judgment's coming! ¹⁰ "'God, the Master, says: "'I'll put a stop to Egypt's arrogance. I'll use Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to do it. ¹¹ He and his army, the most brutal of nations, shall be used to destroy the country. They'll brandish their swords and fill Egypt with corpses. ¹² I'll dry up the Nile and sell off the land to a bunch of crooks. I'll hire outsiders to come in and waste the country, strip it clean. I, God, have said so. ¹³ "'And now this is what God, the Master, says: "'I'll smash all the no-god idols; I'll topple all those huge statues in Memphis. The prince of Egypt will be gone for good, and in his place I'll put fear - fear throughout Egypt! ¹⁴ I'll demolish Pathros, burn Zoan to the ground, and punish Thebes, ¹⁵ Pour my wrath on Pelusium, Egypt's fort, and knock Thebes off its proud pedestal. ¹⁶ I'll set Egypt on fire: Pelusium will writhe in pain, Thebes blown away, Memphis raped. ¹⁷ The young warriors of On and Pi-beseth will be killed and the cities exiled. ¹⁸ A dark day for Tahpanhes when I shatter Egypt, When I break Egyptian power and put an end to her arrogant oppression! She'll disappear in a cloud of dust, her cities hauled off as exiles. ¹⁹ That's how I'll punish Egypt, and that's how she'll realize that I am God.'"