Ezekiel 29:17-21
God governs the accounts of history: Babylon's hard labor against Tyre is not forgotten, Egypt is assigned as wages, and Israel receives a promise that the Lord will raise up strength and open prophetic speech among His people.
17 It came to pass in the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, in the first day of the month, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
18 “Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre. Every head was made bald, and every shoulder was worn; yet he had no wages, nor did his army, from Tyre, for the service that he had served against it.
19 Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. He will carry off her multitude, take her plunder, and take her prey. That will be the wages for his army.
20 I have given him the land of Egypt as his payment for which he served, because they worked for me,’ says the Lord Yahweh.
21 “In that day I will cause a horn to sprout for the house of Israel, and I will open your mouth among them. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.”
God governs the accounts of history: Babylon's hard labor against Tyre is not forgotten, Egypt is assigned as wages, and Israel receives a promise that the LORD will raise up strength and open prophetic speech among His people.
To declare that the LORD sovereignly accounts for Nebuchadnezzar's labor against Tyre, gives Egypt to Babylon as wages for that divinely governed campaign, and at the same time promises a horn for the house of Israel and renewed prophetic speech so that the LORD's identity will be known.
The passage itself presents a later dated word and names Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, Tyre, Egypt, and the house of Israel. It portrays Babylon's campaign against Tyre as exhausting siege labor and Egypt's wealth as the divinely assigned recompense. The artifact restricts historical claims to what the biblical text states and to immediate canonical relationships supplied by Scripture.