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ASSOUAN 20 ABU-S1MBEL,
" Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness,
For the violence agaii st the children of Judah,
Because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.''1
A hundred years later, Isaiah renewed the burden :
" The Eg) ptLns will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord ;
And a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Loid, the Lord of hosts.
Surely the princes of Zoan are (ools,
The counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish :
How say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings ?"2
GKEAT TEMPLE AT ABU-SIMBEL.
The doom was again denounced by Ezekiel, when the destroyer was nearer at hand,
yet still before the long- and flourishing reign of Amasis :
" I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt,
The great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers,
Which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myselt.
And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the Lord,
Because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.
And the sword shall come upon Egvpt, and great pain shall be in Ethiopia,
When the slain sh Jl fall in Egypt, and tney shall take away her multitude,
And her foundations shall be broken down.
And they shall know that I am the Lord,
When I have set fire in Egvpt, and when all her helpers shall be destroyed.
Thus saith the Lord God : I will also destroy the idols,
1 Joel iii. 19, 20. 1 Isaiah xix. 4, it.
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" Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness,
For the violence agaii st the children of Judah,
Because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.''1
A hundred years later, Isaiah renewed the burden :
" The Eg) ptLns will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord ;
And a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Loid, the Lord of hosts.
Surely the princes of Zoan are (ools,
The counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish :
How say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings ?"2
GKEAT TEMPLE AT ABU-SIMBEL.
The doom was again denounced by Ezekiel, when the destroyer was nearer at hand,
yet still before the long- and flourishing reign of Amasis :
" I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt,
The great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers,
Which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myselt.
And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the Lord,
Because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.
And the sword shall come upon Egvpt, and great pain shall be in Ethiopia,
When the slain sh Jl fall in Egypt, and tney shall take away her multitude,
And her foundations shall be broken down.
And they shall know that I am the Lord,
When I have set fire in Egvpt, and when all her helpers shall be destroyed.
Thus saith the Lord God : I will also destroy the idols,
1 Joel iii. 19, 20. 1 Isaiah xix. 4, it.
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