I will bring ruthless enemies to attack you. They will destroy all the beautiful things you have acquired by skill and wisdom.

He and his ruthless army will come to devastate the land. They will attack Egypt with swords, and the land will be full of corpses.

so I have rejected it and will let a foreign ruler have it. He will give that tree what it deserves for its wickedness.

The LORD will bring against you a nation from the ends of the earth, a nation whose language you do not know. They will swoop down on you like an eagle.

They will be ruthless and show no mercy to anyone, young or old.

I am bringing the Babylonians to power, those fierce, restless people. They are marching out across the world to conquer other lands.

They spread fear and terror, and in their pride they are a law to themselves.

So now this is what I, the Sovereign LORD, am saying: I am giving the land of Egypt to King Nebuchadnezzar. He will loot and plunder it and carry off all the wealth of Egypt as his army's pay.

You have turned cities into ruins and destroyed their fortifications. The palaces which our enemies built are gone forever.

The people of powerful nations will praise you; you will be feared in the cities of cruel nations.