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Ezekiel 29:4

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I will put hooks in your jaws,
and I will make the fish of your rivers stick to your scales.
I will bring you up out of the middle of your rivers,
with all the fish of your rivers which stick to your scales.

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Ezekiel 29:4 in other translations

And 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, with all the fish of thy rivers which stick unto thy scales.

Ezekiel 29:4 · American Standard Version

Ezekiel 29:4 in context

  1. 2“Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him and against all Egypt.
  2. 3Speak and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says:
    “Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt,
    the great monster that lies in the middle of his rivers,
    that has said, ‘My river is my own,
    and I have made it for myself.’
  3. 4I will put hooks in your jaws,
    and I will make the fish of your rivers stick to your scales.
    I will bring you up out of the middle of your rivers,
    with all the fish of your rivers which stick to your scales.
  4. 5I’ll cast you out into the wilderness,
    you and all the fish of your rivers.
    You’ll fall on the open field.
    You won’t be brought together or gathered.
    I have given you for food to the animals of the earth
    and to the birds of the sky.
  5. 6“ ‘ “All the inhabitants of Egypt will know that I am Yahweh, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.