Ezekiel 29:6
King James Version
“And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I the LORD, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.”
Context
3Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river mine own, and I have made for myself.
4But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales.
5And I will leave thee into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open fields; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven.
6And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I the LORD, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.
7When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand.
8Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and cut off man and beast out of thee.
9And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; and they shall know that I the LORD: because he hath said, The river mine, and I have made