For the day is near, the day of the LORD is near – a day of clouds, a time of doom for the nations. (NIV)
For the day is near, even the day of the Lord is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time [of doom] for the nations. (AMP)
For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen. (KJV)
Cush and Libya, Lydia and all Arabia, Kub and the people of the covenant land will fall by the sword along with Egypt. (NIV)
Ethiopia (Cush) and Put, Lud and all the mingled people [foreigners living in Egypt], Cub (Lub, Libya) and the children of the land of the covenant [the Jews who had taken refuge in Egypt] shall fall with [the Egyptians] by the sword. (AMP)
Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the mingled people, and Chub, and the men of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword. (KJV)
"Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt. It has not been bound up to be healed or put in a splint so that it may become strong enough to hold a sword." (NIV)
Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and behold, it has not been bound up to heal it by binding it with a bandage, to make it strong to hold and wield the sword. (AMP)
Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed, to put a roller to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword. (KJV)
The word of the LORD came to me: (NIV)
THE WORD of the Lord came again to me, saying (AMP)
The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, (KJV)
I will lay waste Upper Egypt, set fire to Zoan and inflict punishment on Thebes. (NIV)
And I will make Pathros desolate and will set fire to Zoan and will execute judgments and punishments upon No or Thebes. (AMP)
And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments in No. (KJV)
"This is what the Sovereign LORD says: "I will destroy the idols and put an end to the images in Memphis. No longer will there be a prince in Egypt, and I will spread fear throughout the land. (NIV)
Thus says the Lord God: I will also destroy the idols and I will put an end to the images in Noph or Memphis, and there shall be no longer a prince of the land of Egypt. And I will put fear in the land of Egypt. (AMP)
Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause their images to cease out of Noph; and there shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt. (KJV)
The young men of Heliopolis and Bubastis will fall by the sword, and the cities themselves will go into captivity. (NIV)
The young men of Aven or On and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword, and the [women and children] shall go into captivity. (AMP)
The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword: and these cities shall go into captivity. (KJV)
A sword will come against Egypt, and anguish will come upon Cush. When the slain fall in Egypt, her wealth will be carried away and her foundations torn down. (NIV)
And a sword shall come upon Egypt, and anguish and great sorrow shall be in Ethiopia (Cush), when the slain fall in Egypt and they [of Babylon] carry away her great mass of people and of things and her foundations are broken down. (AMP)
And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great pain shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down. (KJV)
Dark will be the day at Tahpanhes when I break the yoke of Egypt; there her proud strength will come to an end. She will be covered with clouds, and her villages will go into captivity. (NIV)
At Tehaphnehes also the day shall withdraw itself and be dark when I break there the yokes and dominion of Egypt, and the pride of her power shall come to an end. As for her, a cloud [of calamities] shall cover her and her daughters shall go into captivity. (AMP)
At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened, when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of her strength shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity. (KJV)
I will pour out my wrath on Pelusium, the stronghold of Egypt, and wipe out the hordes of Thebes. (NIV)
And I will pour My wrath upon Pelusium, the stronghold of Egypt, and I will cut off the tumult, the prosperity and the population of No or Thebes. (AMP)
And I will pour my fury upon Sin, the strength of Egypt; and I will cut off the multitude of No. (KJV)
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