Ezekiel 29:3

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Tell them,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says:“‘Look, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster lying in the midst of its waterways, who has said,“My Nile is my own, I made it for myself.”

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  • Ezek 32:2 : 2 “Son of man, sing a lament for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him:“‘You were like a lion among the nations, but you are a monster in the seas; you thrash about in your streams, stir up the water with your feet, and muddy your streams.
  • Isa 27:1 : 1 At that time the LORD will punish with his destructive, great, and powerful sword Leviathan the fast-moving serpent, Leviathan the squirming serpent; he will kill the sea monster.
  • Isa 51:9 : 9 Wake up! Wake up! Clothe yourself with strength, O arm of the LORD! Wake up as in former times, as in antiquity! Did you not smash the Proud One? Did you not wound the sea monster?
  • Jer 44:30 : 30 I, the LORD, promise that I will hand Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt over to his enemies who are seeking to kill him. I will do that just as surely as I handed King Zedekiah of Judah over to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, his enemy who was seeking to kill him.’”
  • Ps 74:13-14 : 13 You destroyed the sea by your strength; you shattered the heads of the sea monster in the water. 14 You crushed the heads of Leviathan; you fed him to the people who live along the coast.
  • Ps 76:7 : 7 You are awesome! Yes, you! Who can withstand your intense anger?
  • Isa 10:13-14 : 13 For he says:“By my strong hand I have accomplished this, by my strategy that I devised. I invaded the territory of nations, and looted their storehouses. Like a mighty conqueror, I brought down rulers. 14 My hand discovered the wealth of the nations, as if it were in a nest, as one gathers up abandoned eggs, I gathered up the whole earth. There was no wing flapping, or open mouth chirping.”
  • Deut 8:17 : 17 Be careful not to say,“My own ability and skill have gotten me this wealth.”
  • Ezek 28:2 : 2 “Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says:“‘Your heart is proud and you said,“I am a god; I sit in the seat of gods, in the heart of the seas”– yet you are a man and not a god, though you think you are godlike.
  • Ezek 28:22 : 22 Say,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says:“‘Look, I am against you, Sidon, and I will magnify myself in your midst. Then they will know that I am the LORD when I execute judgments on her and reveal my sovereign power in her.
  • Ezek 29:9-9 : 9 The land of Egypt will become a desolate ruin. Then they will know that I am the LORD. Because he said,“The Nile is mine and I made it,” 10 I am against you and your waterways. I will turn the land of Egypt into an utter desolate ruin from Migdol to Syene, as far as the border with Ethiopia.
  • Dan 4:30-31 : 30 The king uttered these words:“Is this not the great Babylon that I have built for a royal residence by my own mighty strength and for my majestic honor?” 31 While these words were still on the king’s lips, a voice came down from heaven:“It is hereby announced to you, King Nebuchadnezzar, that your kingdom has been removed from you!
  • Nah 1:6 : 6 No one can withstand his indignation! No one can resist his fierce anger! His wrath is poured out like volcanic fire, boulders are broken up as he approaches.
  • Rev 12:3-4 : 3 Then another sign appeared in heaven: a huge red dragon that had seven heads and ten horns, and on its heads were seven diadem crowns. 4 Now the dragon’s tail swept away a third of the stars in heaven and hurled them to the earth. Then the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that he might devour her child as soon as it was born.
  • Rev 12:16-17 : 16 but the earth came to her rescue; the ground opened up and swallowed the river that the dragon had spewed from his mouth. 17 So the dragon became enraged at the woman and went away to make war on the rest of her children, those who keep God’s commandments and hold to the testimony about Jesus.
  • Rev 13:2 : 2 Now the beast that I saw was like a leopard, but its feet were like a bear’s, and its mouth was like a lion’s mouth. The dragon gave the beast his power, his throne, and great authority to rule.
  • Rev 13:4 : 4 they worshiped the dragon because he had given ruling authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast too, saying:“Who is like the beast?” and“Who is able to make war against him?”
  • Rev 13:11 : 11 Then I saw another beast coming up from the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, but was speaking like a dragon.
  • Rev 16:13 : 13 Then I saw three unclean spirits that looked like frogs coming out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
  • Rev 20:2 : 2 He seized the dragon– the ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan– and tied him up for a thousand years.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ezek 29:1-2
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    1A Prophecy Against Egypt In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, the LORD’s message came to me:

    2“Son of man, turn toward Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him and against all Egypt.

  • Ezek 32:2-3
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    2“Son of man, sing a lament for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him:“‘You were like a lion among the nations, but you are a monster in the seas; you thrash about in your streams, stir up the water with your feet, and muddy your streams.

    3“‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says:“‘I will throw my net over you in the assembly of many peoples; and they will haul you up in my dragnet.

  • Ezek 29:4-6
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    4I will put hooks in your jaws and stick the fish of your waterways to your scales. I will haul you up from the midst of your waterways, and all the fish of your waterways will stick to your scales.

    5I will leave you in the wilderness, you and all the fish of your waterways; you will fall in the open field and will not be gathered up or collected. I have given you as food to the beasts of the earth and the birds of the skies.

    6Then all those living in Egypt will know that I am the LORD because they were a reed staff for the house of Israel;

  • Ezek 31:2
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    2“Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and his hordes:“‘Who are you like in your greatness?

  • Ezek 29:8-10
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    8“‘Therefore, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Look, I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will kill every person and every animal.

    9The land of Egypt will become a desolate ruin. Then they will know that I am the LORD. Because he said,“The Nile is mine and I made it,”

    10I am against you and your waterways. I will turn the land of Egypt into an utter desolate ruin from Migdol to Syene, as far as the border with Ethiopia.

  • Ezek 30:19-22
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    19I will execute judgments on Egypt. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’”

    20In the eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh day of the month, the LORD’s message came to me:

    21“Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Look, it has not been bandaged for healing or set with a dressing so that it might become strong enough to grasp a sword.

    22Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Look, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and I will break his arms, the strong arm and the broken one, and I will make the sword drop from his hand.

  • Jer 46:7-8
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    7Who is this that rises like the Nile, like its streams turbulent at flood stage?

    8Egypt rises like the Nile, like its streams turbulent at flood stage. Egypt said,‘I will arise and cover the earth. I will destroy cities and the people who inhabit them.’

  • Ezek 31:18
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    18Which of the trees of Eden was like you in majesty and loftiness? You will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lower parts of the earth; you will lie among the uncircumcised, with those killed by the sword! This is what will happen to Pharaoh and all his hordes, declares the Sovereign LORD.’”

  • Exod 7:17-18
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    17This is what the LORD has said:“By this you will know that I am the LORD: I am going to strike the water of the Nile with the staff that is in my hand, and it will be turned into blood.

    18Fish in the Nile will die, the Nile will stink, and the Egyptians will be unable to drink water from the Nile.”’”

  • Exod 6:29
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    29he said to him,“I am the LORD. Tell Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I am telling you.”

  • Ezek 30:10-13
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    10“‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will put an end to the hordes of Egypt, by the hand of King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon.

    11He and his people with him, the most terrifying of the nations, will be brought there to destroy the land. They will draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with corpses.

    12I will dry up the waterways and hand the land over to evil men. I will make the land and everything in it desolate by the hand of foreigners. I, the LORD, have spoken!

    13“‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will destroy the idols, and put an end to the gods of Memphis. There will no longer be a prince from the land of Egypt; so I will make the land of Egypt fearful.

  • Isa 11:15
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    15The LORD will divide the gulf of the Egyptian Sea; he will wave his hand over the Euphrates River and send a strong wind, he will turn it into seven dried-up streams, and enable them to walk across in their sandals.

  • Ezek 30:24-25
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    24I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and I will place my sword in his hand, but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan like the fatally wounded before the king of Babylon.

    25I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, but the arms of Pharaoh will fall limp. Then they will know that I am the LORD when I place my sword in the hand of the king of Babylon and he extends it against the land of Egypt.

  • Isa 27:1
    71%

    1At that time the LORD will punish with his destructive, great, and powerful sword Leviathan the fast-moving serpent, Leviathan the squirming serpent; he will kill the sea monster.

  • Jer 46:25
    71%

    25The LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel says,“I will punish Amon, the god of Thebes. I will punish Egypt, its gods, and its kings. I will punish Pharaoh and all who trust in him.

  • Isa 19:1-2
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    71%

    1The Lord Will Judge Egypt This is an oracle about Egypt: Look, the LORD rides on a swift-moving cloud and approaches Egypt. The idols of Egypt tremble before him; the Egyptians lose their courage.

    2“I will provoke civil strife in Egypt, brothers will fight with each other, as will neighbors, cities, and kingdoms.

  • Isa 19:5
    71%

    5The water of the sea will be dried up, and the river will dry up and be empty.

  • Ezek 32:31-32
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    31“Pharaoh will see them and be consoled over all his hordes who were killed by the sword, Pharaoh and all his army, declares the Sovereign LORD.

    32Indeed, I terrified him in the land of the living, yet he will lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with those killed by the sword, Pharaoh and all his hordes, declares the Sovereign LORD.”

  • Ezek 29:19-20
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    19Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Look, I am about to give the land of Egypt to King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon. He will carry off her wealth, capture her loot, and seize her plunder; it will be his army’s wages.

    20I have given him the land of Egypt as his compensation for attacking Tyre, because they did it for me, declares the Sovereign LORD.

  • Jer 25:19
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    19I made all of these other people drink it: Pharaoh, king of Egypt; his attendants, his officials, his people,

  • Jer 46:13-14
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    13The Lord Predicts that Nebuchadnezzar Will Attack and Plunder Egypt The LORD spoke to the prophet Jeremiah about Nebuchadnezzar coming to attack the land of Egypt.

    14“Make an announcement throughout Egypt. Proclaim it in Migdol, Memphis, and Tahpanhes.‘Take your positions and prepare to do battle. For the enemy army is destroying all the nations around you.’

  • Gen 41:17
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    17Then Pharaoh said to Joseph,“In my dream I was standing by the edge of the Nile.

  • Isa 19:10
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    10Those who make cloth will be demoralized; all the hired workers will be depressed.

  • Exod 7:15
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    15Go to Pharaoh in the morning when he goes out to the water. Position yourself to meet him by the edge of the Nile, and take in your hand the staff that was turned into a snake.

  • Ezek 32:12
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    12By the swords of the mighty warriors I will cause your hordes to fall– all of them are the most terrifying among the nations. They will devastate the pride of Egypt, and all its hordes will be destroyed.

  • Exod 14:17-18
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    17And as for me, I am going to harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they will come after them, that I may be honored because of Pharaoh and his army and his chariots and his horsemen.

    18And the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD when I have gained my honor because of Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen.”

  • Isa 44:27
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    27who says to the deep sea,‘Be dry! I will dry up your sea currents,’

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    17Pharaoh with his great army and mighty horde will not help him in battle, when siege ramps are erected and siege-walls are built to kill many people.

  • Exod 7:21
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    21When the fish that were in the Nile died, the Nile began to stink, so that the Egyptians could not drink water from the Nile. There was blood everywhere in the land of Egypt!