15. I will pour out my anger on Pelusium,the stronghold of Egypt,and I will cut down pompous Thebes.
16. I will set Egypt on fire;Pelusium will writhe in travail,Thebes will be split open,Memphis assaulted in broad daylight.
17. The elite troops of On and Pi-besethwill fall by the sword,and the cities themselves will go into captivity.
18. At Tehaphnehes the day will go dark when I break Egypt’s yoke and bring an end to its proud strength. A cloud will cover it, and the towns around it will go into captivity.
19. I will execute judgments in Egypt, and they will know that I am the Lord.
20. In the eleventh year, on the seventh day of the first month, the Lord’s word came to me:
21. Human one, I’ve broken the arm of Pharaoh, Egypt’s king, and it hasn’t been set so that it might heal, nor has it been braced or wrapped up so that it might be strong enough to grasp a sword.
22. So now the Lord God proclaims: I’m against Pharaoh, and I will break his arms, both the sound one and the broken one, and I’ll make the sword fall out of his hand.
23. I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them throughout the earth.
24. I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and I will put my sword into his hand. When I break the arms of Pharaoh, he will groan like a dying man in his presence.
25. I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, but the arms of Pharaoh will fall. They will know that I am the Lord, when I put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon and he uses it against the land of Egypt.