20. On the seventh day of the first month of the eleventh year of exile, the word of the Lord came to me. He said,
21. “Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. No one will wrap his arm with a bandage. It will not heal, so his arm will not be strong enough to hold a sword.”
22. This is what the Lord GOD says: “I am against Pharaoh, king of Egypt. I will break both his arms, the strong arm and the arm that is already broken. I will make the sword fall from his hand.
23. I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations.
24. I will make the arms of the king of Babylon strong. I will put my sword in his hand, but I will break the arms of Pharaoh. Then Pharaoh will cry out in pain, the kind of cry that a dying man makes.
25. So I will make the arms of the king of Babylon strong, but the arms of Pharaoh will fall. Then they will know that I am the Lord. “I will put my sword in the hand of the king of Babylon. Then he will stretch the sword out against the land of Egypt.
26. I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations. Then they will know that I am the Lord!”