Ezekiel 29:8–14

⁸Therefore thus saith the Lord God; ^qBehold, I will bring a sword upon thee, ^qand cut off man and beast out of thee. ⁹And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; ^mand they shall know that I am the Lord: ^gbecause he hath said, The river is mine, and I have made it. ^10dBehold, therefore I am against thee, and ^ragainst thy rivers, and ^rI will make the land of Egypt ^†utterly waste and desolate, ^||tfrom the tower of ^†Syene even unto the border of ^uEthiopia. ^11vNo foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years. ¹²And I will make the land of Egypt ^wdesolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, ^wand her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: ^xand I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries. ¹³Yet thus saith the Lord God; At the end of forty years ^ywill I gather the Egyptians from the people whither they were scattered: ¹⁴And ^zI will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the land of ^aPathros, into the land of their ^||habitation; and they shall be there a ^†base kingdom.