Ezekiel 29:8–14

⁸“Therefore this is what the Lord God says: I am going to bring a sword ⁿagainst you and wipe out man and animal from you. ⁹The land of Egypt will be a desolate ruin. ^oThen they will know that I am Yahweh. Because you ^psaid, ‘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. ^qIt will be uninhabited for 40 years. ¹²I will make the land of Egypt a desolation among ^rdesolate lands, and its cities will be a desolation among ^sruined cities ^tfor 40 years. I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them across the countries. ^u

¹³“For this is what the Lord God says: At the end of 40 years I will gather the Egyptians from the nations where they were dispersed. ^v14I 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.