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Bible Reading for September 19

Ezekiel 28
[1] The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, [2] Son of man, say
unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is
lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the
midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine
heart as the heart of God: [3] Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is
no secret that they can hide from thee:
[4] With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee
riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures: [5] By thy
great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine
heart is lifted up because of thy riches: [6] Therefore thus saith the Lord
GOD; Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God;
[7] Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the
nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom,
and they shall defile thy brightness. [8] They shall bring thee down to the
pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of
the seas. [9] Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but
thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee. [10]
Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers:
for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD. [11] Moreover the word of the
LORD came unto me, saying, [12] Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the
king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up
the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
[13] Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy
covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the
jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the
workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day
that thou wast created.
[14] Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so:
thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in
the midst of the stones of fire.
[15] Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created,
till iniquity was found in thee.
[16] By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee
with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane
out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub,
from the midst of the stones of fire.
[17] Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted
thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I
will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee. [18] Thou hast
defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the
iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the
midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon
the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee. [19] All they that
know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a
terror, and never shalt thou be any more. [20] Again the word of the LORD
came unto me, saying, [21] Son of man, set thy face against Zidon, and
prophesy against it, [22] And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am
against thee, O Zidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of thee: and
they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall have executed judgments in
her, and shall be sanctified in her.
[23] For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her streets; and
the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by the sword upon her on
every side; and they shall know that I am the LORD. [24] And there shall be
no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor any grieving thorn
of all that are round about them, that despised them; and they shall know
that I am the Lord GOD. [25] Thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall have
gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered,
and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall
they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob.
[26] And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant
vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence, when I have executed
judgments upon all those that despise them round about them; and they shall
know that I am the LORD their God.

Ezekiel 29
[1] In the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the twelfth day of the month,
the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, [2] Son of man, set thy face
against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against all
Egypt: [3] Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against
thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of
his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for
myself.
[4] But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy
rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the midst
of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales.
[5] And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all the fish
of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open fields; thou shalt not be
brought together, nor gathered: I have given thee for meat to the beasts of
the field and to the fowls of the heaven. [6] And all the inhabitants of
Egypt shall know that I am the LORD, because they have been a staff of reed
to the house of Israel. [7] When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou
didst break, and rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee,
thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand.
[8] Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring a sword upon
thee, and cut off man and beast out of thee. [9] And the land of Egypt
shall be desolate and waste; and they shall know that I am the LORD:
because he hath said, The river is mine, and I have made it.
[10] Behold, therefore I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I
will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from the tower of
Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia.
[11] No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass
through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years. [12] And I will make
the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate,
and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty
years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will
disperse them through the countries. [13] Yet thus saith the Lord GOD; At
the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the people whither
they were scattered: [14] And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt,
and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of
their habitation; and they shall be there a base kingdom.
[15] It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither shall it exalt itself
any more above the nations: for I will diminish them, that they shall no
more rule over the nations.
[16] And it shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel, which
bringeth their iniquity to remembrance, when they shall look after them:
but they shall know that I am the Lord GOD. [17] And it came to pass in the
seven and twentieth year, in the first month, in the first day of the
month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
[18] Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a
great service against Tyrus: every head was made bald, and every shoulder
was peeled: yet had he no wages, nor his army, for Tyrus, for the service
that he had served against it:
[19] Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will give the land of
Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her multitude,
and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his
army.
[20] I have given him the land of Egypt for his labour wherewith he served
against it, because they wrought for me, saith the Lord GOD. [21] In that
day will I cause the horn of the house of Israel to bud forth, and I will
give thee the opening of the mouth in the midst of them; and they shall
know that I am the LORD.

Ezekiel 30
[1] The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, [2] Son of man,
prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Howl ye, Woe worth the day
[3] For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it
shall be the time of the heathen.
[4] 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. [5] 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.
[6] Thus saith the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the
pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Syene shall they fall
in it by the sword, saith the Lord GOD. [7] And they shall be desolate in
the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities shall be in
the midst of the cities that are wasted.
[8] And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I have set a fire in
Egypt, and when all her helpers shall be destroyed. [9] In that day shall
messengers go forth from me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians
afraid, and great pain shall come upon them, as in the day of Egypt: for,
lo, it cometh.
[10] Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also make the multitude of Egypt to
cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon. [11] He and his people
with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought to destroy the
land: and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land
with the slain.
[12] And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the
wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all that is therein, by the
hand of strangers: I the LORD have spoken it. [13] 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. [14] And I will make Pathros
desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments in No.
[15] And I will pour my fury upon Sin, the strength of Egypt; and I will
cut off the multitude of No.
[16] And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall have great pain, and No shall
be rent asunder, and Noph shall have distresses daily. [17] The young men
of Aven and of Pi-beseth shall fall by the sword: and these cities shall go
into captivity. [18] 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. [19] Thus will I execute judgments in Egypt: and they
shall know that I am the LORD.
[20] And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, in the
seventh day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
[21] 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.
[22] Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against Pharaoh king
of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong, and that which was broken;
and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand. [23] And I will scatter
the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the
countries.
[24] And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my
sword in his hand: but I will break Pharaoh's arms, and he shall groan
before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded man. [25] But I will
strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh shall
fall down; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall put my
sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out
upon the land of Egypt. [26] And I will scatter the Egyptians among the
nations, and disperse them among the countries; and they shall know that I
am the LORD.

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