Ezekiel 29:8
Good News Translation
Now then, I, the Sovereign LORD, am telling you that I will have troops attack you with swords, and they will kill your people and your animals.

New Revised Standard Version
Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD: I will bring a sword upon you, and will cut off from you human being and animal;

Contemporary English Version
So I, the LORD God, will send troops to attack you, king of Egypt. They will kill your people and livestock,

New American Bible
Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Look! I am bringing the sword against you to cut off from you people and animals.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will bring the sword upon thee: and cut off man and beast out of thee.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will bring the sword upon thee: and cut off man and beast out of thee.

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Ezekiel 29:19,20 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will set Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon in the land of Egypt: and he shall take her multitude, and take the booty thereof for a prey, and rifle the spoils thereof: and it shall be wages for his army. . . .

Ezekiel 14:17 Or if I bring the sword upon that land, and say to the sword: Pass through the land: and I destroy man and beast out of it:

Ezekiel 30:4,10 And the sword shall come upon Egypt: and there shall be dread in Ethiopia, when the wounded shall fall in Egypt, and the multitude thereof shall be taken away, and the foundations thereof shall be destroyed. . . .

Jeremiah 46:13 The word that the Lord spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, how Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon should come and strike the land of Egypt:

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Ezekiel 25:13 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: I will stretch forth my hand upon Edom, and will take away out of it man and beast, and will make it desolate from the south: and they that are in Dedan shall fall by the sword.

Ezekiel 32:10-13 And I will make many people to be amazed at thee, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for thee, when my sword shall begin to fly upon their faces: and they shall be astonished on a sudden, every one for his own life, in the day of their ruin. . . .

Genesis 6:7 He said: I will destroy man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth, from man even to beasts, from the creeping thing even to the fowls of the air, for it repenteth me that I have made them.

Exodus 12:12 And I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and will kill every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast: and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments; I am the Lord.

Jeremiah 7:20 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold my wrath and my indignation is enkindled against this place, upon men and upon beasts, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruits of the land, and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.

Jeremiah 32:43 And fields shall be purchased in this land: whereof you say that it is desolate, because there remaineth neither man nor beast, and it is given into the hands of the Chaldeans.

Context
The Desolation of Egypt
8Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will bring the sword upon thee: and cut off man and beast out of thee.9And the land of Egypt shall become a desert, and a wilderness: and they shall know that I am the Lord, because thou hast said: The river is mine, and I made it.…
Cross References
Jeremiah 46:13
The word that the Lord spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, how Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon should come and strike the land of Egypt:

Jeremiah 46:26
And I will deliver them into the hand of them that seek their lives, and into the hand of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants: and afterwards it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, saith the Lord.

Ezekiel 14:17
Or if I bring the sword upon that land, and say to the sword: Pass through the land: and I destroy man and beast out of it:

Ezekiel 25:13
Therefore thus saith the Lord God: I will stretch forth my hand upon Edom, and will take away out of it man and beast, and will make it desolate from the south: and they that are in Dedan shall fall by the sword.

Ezekiel 29:7
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