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Day 249: Ezekiel 27 - 30

Bible in a year reading for day 249.

Ezekiel 27

  1. 20 Dedan was your merchant in saddlecloths for riding.
  2. 21 Arabia and all the princes of Kedar were your customers, trading in lambs, rams, and goats.
  3. 22 The merchants of Sheba and Raamah traded with you; for your wares they exchanged gold, the finest of all spices, and precious stones.
  4. 23 Haran, Canneh, and Eden traded with you, and so did the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad.
  5. 24 In your marketplace they traded with you fine garments of blue, embroidered work, and multicolored rugs with cords tightly twisted and knotted.
  6. 25 The ships of Tarshish carried your merchandise. And you were filled with heavy cargo in the heart of the sea.
  7. 26 Your oarsmen have brought you onto the high seas, but the east wind will shatter you in the heart of the sea.
  8. 27 Your wealth, wares, and merchandise, your sailors, captains, and shipwrights, your merchants and all the warriors within you, with all the other people on board, will sink into the heart of the sea on the day of your downfall.
  9. 28 The countryside will shake when your sailors cry out.
  10. 29 All who handle the oars will abandon their ships. The sailors and all the captains of the sea will stand on the shore.
  11. 30 They will raise their voices for you and cry out bitterly. They will throw dust on their heads and roll in ashes.
  12. 31 They will shave their heads for you and wrap themselves in sackcloth. They will weep over you with anguish of soul and bitter mourning.
  13. 32 As they wail and mourn over you, they will take up a lament for you: ‘Who was ever like Tyre, silenced in the middle of the sea?
  14. 33 When your wares went out to sea, you satisfied many nations. You enriched the kings of the earth with your abundant wealth and merchandise.
  15. 34 Now you are shattered by the seas in the depths of the waters; your merchandise and the people among you have gone down with you.
  16. 35 All the people of the coastlands are appalled over you. Their kings shudder with fear; their faces are contorted.
  17. 36 Those who trade among the nations hiss at you; you have come to a horrible end and will be no more.’”

Ezekiel 28

  1. 1 And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
  2. 2 “Son of man, tell the ruler of Tyre that this is what the Lord GOD says: Your heart is proud, and you have said, ‘I am a god; I sit in the seat of gods in the heart of the sea.’ Yet you are a man and not a god, though you have regarded your heart as that of a god.
  3. 3 Behold, you are wiser than Daniel; no secret is hidden from you!
  4. 4 By your wisdom and understanding you have gained your wealth and amassed gold and silver for your treasuries.
  5. 5 By your great skill in trading you have increased your wealth, but your heart has grown proud because of it.
  6. 6 Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Because you regard your heart as the heart of a god,
  7. 7 behold, I will bring foreigners against you, the most ruthless of nations. They will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom and will defile your splendor.
  8. 8 They will bring you down to the Pit, and you will die a violent death in the heart of the seas.
  9. 9 Will you still say, ‘I am a god,’ in the presence of those who slay you? You will be only a man, not a god, in the hands of those who wound you.
  10. 10 You will die the death of the uncircumcised at the hands of foreigners. For I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD.”
  11. 11 Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
  12. 12 “Son of man, take up a lament for the king of Tyre and tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
  13. 13 You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every kind of precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald. Your mountings and settings were crafted in gold, prepared on the day of your creation.
  14. 14 You were anointed as a guardian cherub, for I had ordained you. You were on the holy mountain of God; you walked among the fiery stones.
  15. 15 From the day you were created you were blameless in your ways— until wickedness was found in you.
  16. 16 By the vastness of your trade, you were filled with violence, and you sinned. So I drove you in disgrace from the mountain of God, and I banished you, O guardian cherub, from among the fiery stones.
  17. 17 Your heart grew proud of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor; so I cast you to the earth; I made you a spectacle before kings.
  18. 18 By the multitude of your iniquities and the dishonesty of your trading you have profaned your sanctuaries. So I made fire come from within you, and it consumed you. I reduced you to ashes on the ground in the eyes of all who saw you.
  19. 19 All the nations who know you are appalled over you. You have come to a horrible end and will be no more.’”
  20. 20 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
  21. 21 “Son of man, set your face against Sidon and prophesy against her.
  22. 22 And you are to declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I am against you, O Sidon, and I will be glorified within you. They will know that I am the LORD when I execute judgments against her and demonstrate My holiness through her.
  23. 23 I will send a plague against her and shed blood in her streets; the slain will fall within her, while the sword is against her on every side. Then they will know that I am the LORD.
  24. 24 For the people of Israel will no longer face a pricking brier or a painful thorn from all around them who treat them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD.’
  25. 25 This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘When I gather the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they have been scattered, I will show Myself holy among them in the sight of the nations. Then they will dwell in their own land, which I have given to My servant Jacob.
  26. 26 And there they will dwell securely, build houses, and plant vineyards. They will dwell securely when I execute judgments against all those around them who treat them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the LORD their God.’”

Ezekiel 29

  1. 1 In the tenth year, on the twelfth day of the tenth month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
  2. 2 “Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt and prophesy against him and against all Egypt.
  3. 3 Speak to him and tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, O Pharaoh king of Egypt, O great monster who lies among his rivers, who says, ‘The Nile is mine; I made it myself.’
  4. 4 But I will put hooks in your jaws and cause the fish of your streams to cling to your scales. I will haul you up out of your rivers, and all the fish of your streams will cling to your scales.
  5. 5 I will leave you in the desert, you and all the fish of your streams. You will fall on the open field and will not be taken away or gathered for burial. I have given you as food to the beasts of the earth and the birds of the air.
  6. 6 Then all the people of Egypt will know that I am the LORD. For you were only a staff of reeds to the house of Israel.
  7. 7 When Israel took hold of you with their hands, you splintered, tearing all their shoulders; when they leaned on you, you broke, and their backs were wrenched.
  8. 8 Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I will bring a sword against you and cut off from you man and beast.
  9. 9 The land of Egypt will become a desolate wasteland. Then they will know that I am the LORD. Because you said, ‘The Nile is mine; I made it,’
  10. 10 therefore I am against you and against your rivers. I will turn the land of Egypt into a ruin, a desolate wasteland from Migdol to Syene, and as far as the border of Cush.
  11. 11 No foot of man or beast will pass through, and it will be uninhabited for forty years.
  12. 12 I will make the land of Egypt a desolation among desolate lands, and her cities will lie desolate for forty years among the ruined cities. And I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them throughout the countries.
  13. 13 For this is what the Lord GOD says: At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the nations to which they were scattered.
  14. 14 I will restore Egypt from captivity and bring them back to the land of Pathros, the land of their origin. There they will be a lowly kingdom.
  15. 15 Egypt will be the lowliest of kingdoms and will never again exalt itself above the nations. For I will diminish Egypt so that it will never again rule over the nations.
  16. 16 Egypt will never again be an object of trust for the house of Israel, but will remind them of their iniquity in turning to the Egyptians. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD.”
  17. 17 In the twenty-seventh year, on the first day of the first month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
  18. 18 “Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to labor strenuously against Tyre. Every head was made bald and every shoulder made raw. But he and his army received no wages from Tyre for the labor they expended on it.
  19. 19 Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who will carry off its wealth, seize its spoil, and remove its plunder. This will be the wages for his army.
  20. 20 I have given him the land of Egypt as the reward for his labor, because it was done for Me, declares the Lord GOD.
  21. 21 In that day I will cause a horn to sprout for the house of Israel, and I will open your mouth to speak among them. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”

Ezekiel 30

  1. 1 Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
  2. 2 “Son of man, prophesy and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Wail, ‘Alas for that day!’
  3. 3 For the day is near, the Day of the LORD is near. It will be a day of clouds, a time of doom for the nations.
  4. 4 A sword will come against Egypt, and there will be anguish in Cush when the slain fall in Egypt, its wealth is taken away, and its foundations are torn down.
  5. 5 Cush, Put, and Lud, and all the various peoples, as well as Libya and the men of the covenant land, will fall with Egypt by the sword.
  6. 6 For this is what the LORD says: The allies of Egypt will fall, and her proud strength will collapse. From Migdol to Syene they will fall by the sword within her, declares the Lord GOD.
  7. 7 They will be desolate among desolate lands, and their cities will lie among ruined cities.
  8. 8 Then they will know that I am the LORD when I set fire to Egypt and all her helpers are shattered.
  9. 9 On that day messengers will go out from Me in ships to frighten Cush out of complacency. Anguish will come upon them on the day of Egypt’s doom. For it is indeed coming.
  10. 10 This is what the Lord GOD says: I will put an end to the hordes of Egypt by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.
  11. 11 He and his people with him, the most ruthless of the nations, will be brought in to destroy the land. They will draw their swords against Egypt and fill the land with the slain.
  12. 12 I will make the streams dry up and sell the land to the wicked. By the hands of foreigners I will bring desolation upon the land and everything in it. I, the LORD, have spoken.
  13. 13 This is what the Lord GOD says: I will destroy the idols and put an end to the images in Memphis. There will no longer be a prince in Egypt, and I will instill fear in that land.
  14. 14 I will lay waste Pathros, set fire to Zoan, and execute judgment on Thebes.
  15. 15 I will pour out My wrath on Pelusium, the stronghold of Egypt, and cut off the crowds of Thebes.
  16. 16 I will set fire to Egypt, Pelusium will writhe in anguish, Thebes will be split open, and Memphis will face daily distress.
  17. 17 The young men of On and Pi-beseth will fall by the sword, and those cities will go into captivity.
  18. 18 The day will be darkened in Tahpanhes when I break the yoke of Egypt and her proud strength comes to an end. A cloud will cover her, and her daughters will go into captivity.
  19. 19 So I will execute judgment on Egypt, and they will know that I am the LORD.”
  20. 20 In the eleventh year, on the seventh day of the first month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
  21. 21 “Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt. See, it has not been bound up for healing, or splinted for strength to hold the sword.

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