Then all the inhabitants of Egypt (A)shall know that I am the Lord.

“Because you[a] have been (B)a staff of reed to the house of Israel, (C)when they grasped you with the hand, you broke and tore all their shoulders; and when they leaned on you, you broke and made all their loins to shake.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 29:6 Hebrew they
  2. Ezekiel 29:7 Syriac (compare Psalm 69:23); Hebrew to stand

(A)who set out to go down to Egypt,
    without asking for my direction,
to take refuge in the protection of Pharaoh
    and to seek shelter in the shadow of Egypt!
(B)Therefore shall the protection of Pharaoh turn to your shame,
    and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt to your humiliation.

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Egypt's (A)help is worthless and empty;
    therefore I have called her
    (B)“Rahab who sits still.”

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