Ezekiel 30:2-4

Good News Translation

²“Mortal man,” he said, “prophesy and announce what I, the Sovereign Lord, am saying. You are to shout these words:

A day of terror is coming!
³The day is near, the day when the Lord will act,
A day of clouds and trouble for the nations.
⁴There will be war in Egypt
And great distress in Ethiopia.^[a]
Many in Egypt will be killed;
The country will be plundered
And left in ruins.

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Footnotes

Ezekiel 30:4 Hebrew Cushite (Cush): Cush is the ancient name of the extensive territory south of the First Cataract of the Nile River. This region was called Ethiopia in Graeco-Roman times, and included within its borders most of modern Sudan and some of present-day Ethiopia (Abyssinia).