Ezekiel 29:8–14

⁸“ ‘Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: I am going to bring a sword^h against you and cut off both people and animals from you. ⁹The land of Egypt will be a desolate ruin.ⁱ Then they will know that I am the Lord. Because you^D said, “The Nile is my own; I made it,” ¹⁰therefore, I am against you and your Nile. I will turn the land of Egypt into ruins, a desolate waste from Migdol to Syene, as far as the border of Cush. ¹¹No human foot will pass through it, and no animal foot will pass through it.^j It will be uninhabited for forty years. ¹²I will make the land of Egypt a desolation among^E desolate lands, and its cities will be a desolation among^F ruined cities^k for forty years. I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands.^l

¹³“ ‘For this is what the Lord God says: At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples where they were dispersed.^{m 14}I will restore the fortunes of Egypt and bring them back to the land of Pathros, the land of their origin. There they will be a lowly kingdom.