lift itself up above the nations: and I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations. 029:016 It shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel, bringing iniquity to memory, when they turn to look after them: and they shall know that I am the Lord Yahweh."'" 029:017 It came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the first [month], in the first [day] of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, 029:018 Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was worn; yet had he no wages, nor his army, from Tyre, for the service that he had served against it. 029:019 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and he shall carry off her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army. 029:020 I have given him the land of Egypt as his recompense for which he served, because they worked for me, says the Lord Yahweh. 029:021 In that day will I cause a horn to bud forth to the house of Israel, and I will give you the opening of the mouth in the midst of them; and they shall know that I am Yahweh. 030:001 The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying, 030:002 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Wail, Alas for the day! 030:003 For the day is near, even the day of Yahweh is near; it shall be a day of clouds, a time of the nations. 030:004 A sword shall come on Egypt, and anguish 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. 030:005 Ethiopia, and Put, and Lud, and all the mixed people, and Cub, and the children of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword. 030:006 Thus says Yahweh: They also who uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Seveneh shall they fall in it by the sword, says the Lord Yahweh. 030:007 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. 030:008 They shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and all her helpers are destroyed. 030:009 In that day shall messengers go forth from before me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid; and there shall be anguish on them, as in the day of Egypt; for, behold, it comes. 030:010 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease, by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. 030:011 He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought in to destroy the land; and they shall draw