Holy Scripture

Ezekiel 29:9

A church father on this verse
“(Verse 27, 29 onwards) Therefore speak to the house of Israel, son of man, and tell them: Thus says the Lord God: Moreover, your fathers have blasphemed against me and have treated me with contempt, even as they spurned me. And I brought them into the land that I had lifted my hand to give them ((Vulgate adds: that la…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Ezekiel

Source: Septuagint

Original

9and the land of Egypt shall be ruined and desert; and they shall know that I am the Lord; because thou sayest, The rivers are mine, and I made them.

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In context

7When they took hold of thee with their hand, thou didst break: and when every hand was clapped against them, and when they leaned on thee, thou wast utterly broken, and didst crush the loins of them all.

8Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and will cut off from thee man and beast;

— Ezekiel 29:9 —

10Therefore, behold, I am against thee, and against all thy rivers, and I will give up the land of Egypt to desolation, and the sword, and destruction, from Migdol and Syene even to the borders of the Ethiopians.

11No foot of man shall pass through it, and no foot of beast shall pass through it, and it shall not be inhabited for forty years.

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