3 For the day is near,even the Lord’s day is near.It will be a day of clouds,a time of the nations.
4 A sword will come on Egypt,and anguish will be in Ethiopia,when the slain fall in Egypt.They take away her multitude,and her foundations are broken down.
5 “‘“Ethiopia, Put, Lud, all the mixed people, Cub, and the children of the land that is allied with them, will fall with them by the sword.”
6 “‘the Lord says:“They also who uphold Egypt will fall.The pride of her power will come down.They will fall by the sword in it from the tower of Seveneh,”says the Lord GOD.
7 “They will be desolate in the middle of the countries that are desolate.Her cities will be amongst the cities that are wasted.
8 They will know that I am the Lordwhen I have set a fire in Egypt,and all her helpers are destroyed.
9 “‘“In that day messengers will go out from before me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid. There will be anguish on them, as in the day of Egypt; for, behold, it comes.”