Therefore, thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, so that he would bring the country into subjection to Chaldea; and he shall take her multitude, a great number of captives, and take her spoil, her wealth and stores making a welcome booty, and take her prey, so that the country would be stripped of its riches in every form; and it shall be the wages for his army, a well-merited reward or recompense, since his army, unknown to the heathen ruler himself, had been the instrument of God in carrying out his will.

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