Ezekiel 30:18

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And at Tehaphnehes the day will become dark, when the yoke of Egypt is broken there, and the pride of her power comes to an end: as for her, she will be covered with a cloud, and her daughters will be taken away prisoners.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּבִֽתְחַפְנְחֵס֙ חָשַׂ֣ךְ הַיּ֔וֹם בְּשִׁבְרִי־שָׁם֙ אֶת־מֹט֣וֹת מִצְרַ֔יִם וְנִשְׁבַּת־בָּ֖הּ גְּא֣וֹן עֻזָּ֑הּ הִ֚יא עָנָ֣ן יְכַסֶּ֔נָּה וּבְנוֹתֶ֖יהָ בַּשְּׁבִ֥י תֵלַֽכְנָה׃

Transliteration

û-ḇitḥapnəḥēs ḥāśaḵ ha-yyôm bə-šiḇrî-šām ʾet-mōṭôt miṣrayim wə-nišbat-bāh gəʾôn ʿuzzāh hîʾ ʿānān yəḵassennāh û-ḇənôtêhā ba-ššəḇî tēlaḵnāh

Grammar Details

• *û-ḇitḥapnəḥēs*: conjunction + preposition + proper noun - and in Tahpanhes/Daphne
• *ḥāśaḵ*: qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - will be darkened
• *ha-yyôm*: definite article + noun, masculine singular - the day
• *bə-šiḇrî*-*šām*: preposition + qal infinitive construct with 1st singular suffix + adverb - when I break there
• *ʾet*-*mōṭôt*: direct object marker + noun, feminine plural construct - the yokes of
• *miṣrayim*: proper noun - Egypt
• *wə-nišbat*-*bāh*: conjunction + niphal perfect, 3rd masculine singular + preposition with 3rd feminine singular suffix - and in her shall cease
• *gəʾôn*: noun, masculine singular construct - the pride of
• *ʿuzzāh*: noun, feminine singular with 3rd feminine singular suffix - her strength
• *hîʾ*: pronoun, 3rd feminine singular - she
• *ʿānān*: noun, masculine singular - cloud
• *yəḵassennāh*: piel imperfect, 3rd masculine singular with 3rd feminine singular suffix - will cover her
• *û-ḇənôtêhā*: conjunction + noun, feminine plural with 3rd feminine singular suffix - and her daughters
• *ba-ššəḇî*: preposition + definite article + noun, masculine singular - into captivity
• *tēlaḵnāh*: qal imperfect, 3rd feminine plural - they will go

Word Meanings

• *mōṭôt*: yokes/bars/poles
• *gəʾôn*: pride/majesty/excellency
• *ʿuzzāh*: her strength/might/power
• *ʿānān*: cloud/darkness
• *bənôtêhā*: her daughters/dependent villages

Referenced Verses

• Ezek 30:3 : 3 For the day is near, the day of the Lord is near, a day of cloud; it will be the time of the nations.
• Jer 2:16 : 16 Even the children of Noph and Tahpanhes have put shame on you.
• Isa 10:27 : 27 And in that day the weight which he put on your back will be taken away, and his yoke broken from off your neck.
• Isa 13:10 : 10 For the stars of heaven and its bright armies will not give their light: the sun will be made dark in his journey through the heaven, and the moon will keep back her light.
• Isa 14:11 : 11 Your pride has gone down into the underworld, and the noise of your instruments of music; the worms are under you, and your body is covered with them.
• Isa 14:25 : 25 To let the Assyrian be broken in my land, and crushed under foot on my mountains: there will his yoke be taken away from them, and his rule over them come to an end.
• Isa 19:1 : 1 The word about Egypt. See, the Lord is seated on a quick-moving cloud, and is coming to Egypt: and the false gods of Egypt will be troubled at his coming, and the heart of Egypt will be turned to water.
• Exod 10:15 : 15 For all the face of the earth was covered with them, so that the land was black; and every green plant and all the fruit of the trees which was untouched by the ice-storm they took for food: not one green thing, no plant or tree, was to be seen in all the land of Egypt.
• Lev 26:13 : 13 I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt so that you might not be servants to them; by me the cords of your yoke were broken and I made you go upright.
• Isa 5:30 : 30 And his voice will be loud over him in that day like the sounding of the sea: and if a man's eyes are turned to the earth, it is all dark and full of trouble; and the light is made dark by thick clouds.
• Isa 9:4 : 4 For by your hand the yoke on his neck and the rod on his back, even the rod of his cruel master, have been broken, as in the day of Midian.
• Isa 9:19 : 19 The land was dark with the wrath of the Lord of armies: the people were like those who take men's flesh for food.
• Jer 43:7-9 : 7 And they came into the land of Egypt; for they did not give ear to the voice of the Lord: and they came to Tahpanhes. 8 Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying, 9 Take in your hand some great stones, and put them in a safe place in the paste in the brickwork which is at the way into Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes, before the eyes of the men of Judah;
• Jer 46:14 : 14 Give the news in Migdol, make it public in Noph: say, Take up your positions and make yourselves ready; for on every side of you the sword has made destruction.
• Jer 46:20-26 : 20 Egypt is a fair young cow; but a biting insect has come on her out of the north. 21 And those who were her fighters for payment are like fat oxen; for they are turned back, they have gone in flight together, they do not keep their place: for the day of their fate has come on them, the time of their punishment. 22 She makes a sound like the hiss of a snake when they come on with strength; they go against her with axes, like wood-cutters. 23 They will be cutting down her woods, for they may not be searched out; because they are like locusts, more than may be numbered. 24 The daughter of Egypt will be put to shame; she will be given up into the hands of the people of the north. 25 The Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: See, I will send punishment on Amon of No and on Pharaoh and on those who put their faith in him; 26 And I will give them up into the hands of those who will take their lives, and into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, and into the hands of his servants: and later, it will be peopled as in the past, says the Lord.
• Ezek 29:15 : 15 It will be the lowest of the kingdoms, and never again will it be lifted up over the nations: I will make them small, so that they may not have rule over the nations.
• Ezek 31:18 : 18 Whom then are you like? for you will be sent down with the trees of Eden into the lowest parts of the earth: there you will be stretched out among those without circumcision, with those who were put to the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his people, says the Lord.
• Ezek 32:18-32 : 18 Son of man, let your voice be loud in sorrow for the people of Egypt and send them down, even you and the daughters of the nations; I will send them down into the lowest parts of the earth, with those who go down into the underworld. 19 Are you more beautiful than any? go down, and take your rest among those without circumcision, 20 Among those who have been put to the sword: they will give a resting-place with them to all their people. 21 The strong among the great ones will say to him from the underworld, Are you more beautiful than any? go down, you and your helpers, and take your rest among those without circumcision, and those who have been put to the sword. 22 There is Asshur and all her army, round about her last resting-place: all of them put to death by the sword: 23 Whose resting-places are in the inmost parts of the underworld, who were a cause of fear in the land of the living. 24 There is Elam and all her people, round about her last resting-place: all of them put to death by the sword, who have gone down without circumcision into the lowest parts of the earth, who were a cause of fear in the land of the living, and are put to shame with those who go down to the underworld: 25 They have made a bed for her among the dead, and all her people are round about her resting-place: all of them without circumcision, put to death with the sword; for they were a cause of fear in the land of the living, and are put to shame with those who go down to the underworld: they have been given a place among those who have been put to the sword. 26 There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her people, round about her last resting-place: all of them without circumcision, put to death by the sword; for they were a cause of fear in the land of the living. 27 And they have been put to rest with the fighting men who came to their end in days long past, who went down to the underworld with their instruments of war, placing their swords under their heads, and their body-covers are over their bones; for their strength was a cause of fear in the land of the living. 28 But you will have your bed among those without circumcision, and will be put to rest with those who have been put to death with the sword. 29 There is Edom, her kings and all her princes, who have been given a resting-place with those who were put to the sword: they will be resting among those without circumcision, even with those who go down to the underworld. 30 There are the chiefs of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, who have gone down with those who have been put to the sword: they are shamed on account of all the fear caused by their strength; they are resting there without circumcision, among those who have been put to the sword, and are put to shame with those who go down to the underworld. 31 Pharaoh will see them and be comforted on account of all his people: even Pharaoh and all his army, put to death by the sword, says the Lord. 32 For he put his fear in the land of the living: and he will be put to rest among those without circumcision, with those who have been put to death with the sword, even Pharaoh and all his people, says the Lord.
• Joel 3:15 : 15 Get your plough-blades hammered into swords, and your vine-knives into spears: let the feeble say, I am strong.
• Matt 24:29 : 29 But straight away, after the trouble of those days, the sun will be made dark and the moon will not give her light and the stars will come down from heaven and the powers of heaven will be moved: