Ezekiel 29Ezekiel 30Revelation 1Ezekiel 29
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In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
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Son of man, let your face be turned against Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and be a prophet against him and against all Egypt:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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For this cause the Lord has said: See, I am sending a sword on you, cutting off from you man and beast.
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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.
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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.
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No foot of man will go through it and no foot of beast, and it will be unpeopled for forty years.
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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.
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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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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.
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I have given him the land of Egypt as the reward for his hard work, because they were working for me, says the Lord.
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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.
Ezekiel 30
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The word of the Lord came to me again, saying,
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Son of man, be a prophet, and say, These are the words of the Lord: Give a cry, Aha, for the day!
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For the day is near, the day of the Lord is near, a day of cloud it will be the time of the nations.
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And a sword will come on Egypt, and cruel pain will be in Ethiopia, when they are falling by the sword in Egypt and they will take away her wealth and her bases will be broken down.
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Ethiopia and Put and Lud and all the mixed people and Libya and the children of the land of the Cherethites will all be put to death with them by the sword.
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This is what the Lord has said: The supporters of Egypt will have a fall, and the pride of her power will come down: from Migdol to Syene they will be put to the sword in it, says the Lord.
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And she will be made waste among the countries which have been made waste, and her towns will be among the towns which are unpeopled.
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And they will be certain that I am the Lord, when I have put a fire in Egypt and all her helpers are broken.
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In that day men will go out quickly to take the news, causing fear in untroubled Ethiopia and bitter pain will come on them as in the day of Egypt for see, it is coming.
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This is what the Lord has said: I will put an end to great numbers of the people of Egypt by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon.
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He and the people with him, causing fear among the nations, will be sent for the destruction of the land their swords will be let loose against Egypt and the land will be full of dead.
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And I will make the Nile streams dry, and will give the land into the hands of evil men, causing the land and everything in it to be wasted by the hands of men from a strange country: I the Lord have said it.
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This is what the Lord has said: In addition to this, I will give up the images to destruction and put an end to the false gods in Noph never again will there be a ruler in the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.
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And I will make Pathros a waste, and put a fire in Zoan, and send my punishments on No.
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I will let loose my wrath on Sin, the strong place of Egypt, cutting off the mass of the people of No.
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And I will put a fire in Egypt Syene will be twisting in pain, and No will be broken into, as by the onrush of waters.
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The young men of On and Pi-beseth will be put to the sword: and these towns will be taken away prisoners.
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And at Tehaphnehes the day will become dark, when the yoke of Egypt is broken there, and the pride of her power comes to an end: as for her, she will be covered with a cloud, and her daughters will be taken away prisoners.
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And I will send my punishments on Egypt: and they will be certain that I am the Lord.
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Now in the eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
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Son of man, the arm of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, has been broken by me, and no band has been put round it to make it well, no band has been twisted round it to make it strong for gripping the sword.
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For this cause the Lord has said: See, I am against Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and by me his strong arm will be broken and I will make the sword go out of his hand.
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And I will send the Egyptians in flight among the nations and wandering through the countries.
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And I will make the arms of the king of Babylon strong, and will put my sword in his hand: but Pharaoh's arms will be broken, and he will give cries of pain before him like the cries of a man wounded to death.
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And I will make the arms of the king of Babylon strong, and the arms of Pharaoh will be hanging down and they will be certain that I am the Lord, when I put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon and it is stretched out against the land of Egypt.
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And I will send the Egyptians in flight among the nations and wandering through the countries and they will be certain that I am the Lord.
Revelation 1
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The Revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave him so that his servants might have knowledge of the things which will quickly take place: and he sent and made it clear by his angel to his servant John
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Who gave witness of the word of God, and of the witness of Jesus Christ, even of all the things which he saw.
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A blessing be on the reader, and on those who give ear to the prophet's words, and keep the things which he has put in the book: for the time is near.
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John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace to you and peace, from him who is and was and is to come and from the seven Spirits which are before his high seat
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And from Jesus Christ, the true witness, the first to come back from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who had love for us and has made us clean from our sins by his blood
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And has made us to be a kingdom and priests to his God and Father to him let glory and power be given for ever and ever. So be it.
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See, he comes with the clouds, and every eye will see him, and those by whom he was wounded and all the tribes of the earth will be sorrowing because of him. Yes, so be it.
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I am the First and the Last, says the Lord God who is and was and is to come, the Ruler of all.
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I, John, your brother, who have a part with you in the trouble and the kingdom and the quiet strength of Jesus, was in the island which is named Patmos, for the word of God and the witness of Jesus.
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I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and a great voice at my back, as of a horn, came to my ears,
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Saying, What you see, put in a book, and send it to the seven churches to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamos and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.
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And turning to see the voice which said these words to me, I saw seven gold vessels with lights burning in them
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And in the middle of them one like a son of man, clothed with a robe down to his feet, and with a band of gold round his breasts.
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And his head and his hair were white like wool, as white as snow and his eyes were as a flame of fire
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And his feet like polished brass, as if it had been burned in a fire and his voice was as the sound of great waters.
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And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword: and his face was like the sun shining in its strength.
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And when I saw him, I went down on my face at his feet as one dead. And he put his right hand on me, saying, Have no fear I am the first and the last and the Living one
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And I was dead, and see, I am living for ever, and I have the keys of death and of Hell.
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Put in writing, then, the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will be after these
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The secret of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and of the seven gold vessels with burning lights. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven lights are the seven churches.
