Ezekiel 29:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² Mortal, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him and against all Egypt;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against all Egypt:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² Son of man, set your face toward Pharaoh king of Egypt and prophesy against him and against all Egypt.

American Standard Version (1901)

² Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against all Egypt;

Common English Bible

² Human one, face Pharaoh, Egypt’s king, and prophesy against him and against all of Egypt.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² "Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and you shall prophesy about him and about all of Egypt.

Ezekiel 29:2 Cross References

Ezekiel 6:2

O mortal, set your face toward the mountains of Israel and prophesy against them

Jeremiah 44:30

Thus says the Lord, I am going to give Pharaoh Hophra, king of Egypt, into the hands of his enemies, those who seek his life, just as I gave King Zedekiah of Judah into the hand of King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon, his enemy who sought his life.”

Joel 3:19

Egypt shall become a desolation and Edom a desolate wilderness, because of the violence done to the people of Judah, in whose land they have shed innocent blood.

Ezekiel 30:1

The word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 25:2

Mortal, set your face toward the Ammonites and prophesy against them.

Ezekiel 21:2

Mortal, set your face toward Jerusalem and preach against the sanctuaries; prophesy against the land of Israel

Ezekiel 20:46

Mortal, set your face toward the south, preach against the south, and prophesy against the forest land in the Negeb;

Isaiah 18:1

Woe, land of buzzing wings beyond the rivers of Cush,

Isaiah 19:1

An oracle concerning Egypt. See, the Lord is riding on a swift cloud and comes to Egypt; the idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence, and the heart of the Egyptians will melt within them.

Jeremiah 25:17

So I took the cup from the Lord’s hand and made all the nations to whom the Lord sent me drink it: