Hiezechielis Prophetæ 29
1 In anno decimo, decimo mense, undecima die mensis, factum est verbum Domini ad me, dicens:
On the twelfth day of the tenth month of the tenth year, a message from the Lord came to me, saying,
2 Fili hominis pone faciem tuam contra Pharaonem regem Aegypti, et prophetabis de eo, et de Aegypto universa:
“Son of man, face towards Pharaoh king of Egypt and prophesy against him and the whole of Egypt.
3 Loquere, et dices: Haec dicit Dominus Deus: Ecce ego ad te Pharao rex Aegypti, draco magne, qui cubas in medio fluminum tuorum, et dicis: Meus est fluvius, et ego feci memetipsum.
Tell him that this is what the Lord God says: Watch out, because I'm condemning you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, you great monster lying in your rivers, who says, ‘The Nile belongs to me; I made it myself.’
4 Et ponam frenum in maxillis tuis: et agglutinabo pisces fluminum tuorum squamis tuis: et extraham te de medio fluminum tuorum, et universi pisces tui squamis tuis adhaerebunt.
I'm going to put hooks in your jaws and make the fish in your river stick to your scales. I will pull you up out of your river, and all the fish will stick to your scales.
5 Et proiiciam te in desertum, et omnes pisces fluminis tui: super faciem terrae cades, non colligeris, neque congregaberis: bestiis terrae, et volatilibus caeli dedi te ad devorandum.
I will throw you and the fish away, leaving you in the desert. Your body will fall on the ground and be left in the open. It won't be collected or taken to be buried. I'll leave you as food for wild animals and birds of prey.
6 Et scient omnes habitatores Aegypti quia ego Dominus: pro eo quod fuisti baculus arundineus domui Israel.
Then everyone in Egypt will know that I am the Lord. When you had to deal with the people of Israel you were like a flimsy walking stick made from a reed.
7 Quando apprehenderunt te manu, et confractus es, et lacerasti omnem humerum eorum: et innitentibus eis super te, comminutus es, et dissolvisti omnes renes eorum.
When Israel grabbed hold of you, you split apart, damaging their shoulder. When they leaned on you, you broke, putting their backs out.
8 Propterea haec dicit Dominus Deus: Ecce ego adducam super te gladium: et interficiam de te hominem, et iumentum.
So this is what the Lord God says: I will attack you with a sword and kill both people and animals.
9 Et erit Terra Aegypti in desertum, et in solitudinem: et scient quia ego Dominus: pro eo quod dixeris: Fluvius meus est, et ego feci eum.
Egypt will become an empty wasteland. Then they will know that I am the Lord. Because you said, ‘The Nile belongs to me; I made it,’
10 Idcirco ecce ego ad te, et ad flumina tua: daboque Terram Aegypti in solitudines, gladio dissipatam, a turre Syenes, usque ad terminos Aethiopiae.
that's why I'm condemning you and your river. I will ruin Egypt, making it into an empty wasteland all the way from Migdol in the north to Syene in the south, and up to the border with Cush.
11 Non pertransibit eam pes hominis, neque pes iumenti gradietur in ea: et non habitabitur quadraginta annis.
No one, human or animal, will travel that way or live there for forty years.
12 Daboque Terram Aegypti desertam in medio terrarum desertarum, et civitates eius in medio urbium subversarum, et erunt desolatae quadraginta annis: et dispergam Aegyptios in nationes, et ventilabo eos in terras.
I will make Egypt more of a wasteland than any other country, and its towns will lie in ruins for forty years among all the other ruined towns. I will scatter the Egyptians among the different nations and countries.
13 Quia haec dicit Dominus Deus: Post finem quadraginta annorum congregabo Aegyptum de populis, in quibus dispersi fuerant.
However, this is what the Lord God says: After forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the different countries where they were scattered.
14 Et reducam captivitatem Aegypti, et collocabo eos in terra Phathures, in terra nativitatis suae: et erunt ibi in regnum humile:
I will bring Egypt out of captivity and take them back to the land of Pathros, where they originally came from. Their kingdom will be insignificant.
15 inter cetera regna erit humillima, et non elevabitur ultra super nationes, et imminuam eos ne imperent Gentibus.
Egypt will be the lowest of kingdoms and won't ever be more important than other nations again. I will bring Egypt down so that it won't ever be able to rule over the nations again.
16 Neque erunt ultra domui Israel in confidentia, docentes iniquitatem, ut fugiant, et sequantur eos: et scient quia ego Dominus Deus.
The people of Israel won't ever trust in Egypt again; instead they will be reminded them of their sin when they turned to the Egyptians for help. Then they will know that I am the Lord God.”
17 Et factum est in vigesimo et septimo anno, in primo, in una mensis: factum est verbum Domini ad me, dicens:
On the first day of the first month of the twenty-seventh year, a message from the Lord came to me, saying,
18 Fili hominis Nabuchodonosor rex Babylonis servire fecit exercitum suum servitute magna adversum Tyrum: omne caput decalvatum, et omnis humerus depilatus est: et merces non est reddita ei, neque exercitui eius de Tyro pro servitute, qua servivit mihi adversus eam.
“Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made his army work really hard in the siege against Tyre. The soldiers had their hair worn off their heads, and their shoulders rubbed raw. However, he and his army didn't gain any benefit from Tyre for all the work they did in attacking it.
19 Propterea haec dicit Dominus Deus: Ecce ego dabo Nabuchodonosor regem Babylonis in Terra Aegypti: et accipiet multitudinem eius, et depraedabitur manubias eius, et diripiet spolia eius: et erit merces exercitui illius,
So this is what the Lord God says: I'm going to give Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon who will seize everything valuable. He will loot the country, robbing it to pay his army.
20 et operi, quo servivit adversus eam: dedi ei Terram Aegypti, pro eo quod laboraverit mihi, ait Dominus Deus.
I'm rewarding him for all his work by giving him Egypt because the work they did was for me, declares the Lord God.
21 In die illo pullulabit cornu domui Israel, et tibi dabo apertum os in medio eorum: et scient quia ego Dominus.
At that time I will give power back to the people of Israel and I will help you speak to them. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”
