Ezekiel 29:8–14

^8*Now then, I, the Sovereign Lord, am telling you that I will get troops to attack you with swords, and they will kill your people and your animals. ^9*Egypt will become an empty waste. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

“Because you said that the Nile is yours and you made it, ^10*I am your enemy and the enemy of your Nile. I will make all of Egypt an empty waste, from the city of Migdol in the north to the city of Aswan in the south, all the way to the Ethiopian^r border. ^11*No human being or animal will walk through it. For forty years nothing will live there. ^12*I will make Egypt the most desolate country in the world. For forty years the cities of Egypt will lie in ruins, ruins worse than those of any other city. I will make the Egyptians refugees. They will flee to every country and live among other peoples.”

^13*The Sovereign Lord says, “After forty years I will bring the Egyptians back from the nations where I have scattered them, ^14*and I will let them live in southern Egypt, their original home. There they will be a weak kingdom,