{"id":22894,"date":"2025-11-24T12:03:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T19:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.brandonlavere.com\/pw\/bible-chapter\/ezekiel-29\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T12:03:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T19:03:59","slug":"ezekiel-29","status":"publish","type":"bible_chapter","link":"https:\/\/dev.brandonlavere.com\/pw\/bible-chapter\/ezekiel-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Ezekiel 29"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1<\/strong> In the tenth year, in the tenth [month], in the twelfth [day] of the month, the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,<\/p>\n<p><strong>2<\/strong> Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against all Egypt;<\/p>\n<p><strong>3<\/strong> speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lieth in the midst of his rivers, that hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4<\/strong> And I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales; and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, with all the fish of thy rivers which stick unto thy scales.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5<\/strong> And I will cast thee forth into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open field; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered; I have given thee for food to the beasts of the earth and to the birds of the heavens.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6<\/strong> And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am Jehovah, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.<\/p>\n<p><strong>7<\/strong> When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and didst rend all their shoulders; and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand.<\/p>\n<p><strong>8<\/strong> Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and will cut off from thee man and beast.<\/p>\n<p><strong>9<\/strong> And the land of Egypt shall be a desolation and a waste; and they shall know that I am Jehovah. Because he hath said, The river is mine, and I have made it;<\/p>\n<p><strong>10<\/strong> therefore, behold, I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from the tower of Seveneh even unto the border of Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11<\/strong> No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>12<\/strong> And I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of the countries that are desolate; and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be a desolation forty years; and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>13<\/strong> For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the peoples whither they were scattered;<\/p>\n<p><strong>14<\/strong> and I will bring back the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their birth; and they shall be there a base kingdom.<\/p>\n<p><strong>15<\/strong> It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither shall it any more lift itself up above the nations: and I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>16<\/strong> And it shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel, bringing iniquity to remembrance, when they turn to look after them: and they shall know that I am the Lord Jehovah.<\/p>\n<p><strong>17<\/strong> And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the first [month], in the first [day] of the month, the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,<\/p>\n<p><strong>18<\/strong> Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was worn; yet had he no wages, nor his army, from Tyre, for the service that he had served against it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>19<\/strong> Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall carry off her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army.<\/p>\n<p><strong>20<\/strong> I have given him the land of Egypt as his recompense for which he served, because they wrought for me, saith the Lord Jehovah.<\/p>\n<p><strong>21<\/strong> In that day will I cause a horn to bud forth unto the house of Israel, and I will give thee the opening of the mouth in the midst of them; and they shall know that I am Jehovah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"iawp_total_views":0},"tags":[171,170,208,173],"class_list":["post-22894","bible_chapter","type-bible_chapter","status-publish","hentry","tag-asv","tag-bible","tag-ezekiel","tag-old-testament"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ezekiel Chapter 29 - Easy To Understand<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Read Ezekiel Chapter 29 and share your prayer request. 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