In the eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me: 'Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and behold, it has not been bound up for healing or wrapped with a bandage, so that it may become strong to hold the sword, dating the oracle and using the metaphor of a broken arm that lacks medical care to describe Pharaoh's military impotence. The untended fracture suggests that Egypt's power cannot be restored, that she is permanently weakened.

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