Ezekiel 29:8–14

⁸Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Look! I am bringing on you a sword, and I will cut off from you human and animal. ⁹And the land of Egypt will become^h a desolation and ruins, and they will know that I am Yahweh because heⁱ said, ‘The Nile is mine!^j And I, I made it!’ ¹⁰Therefore look! I am against you and against your Nile streams, and I will make the land of Egypt into ruins, a pile of rubble, a desolation from Migdol to Syene and up to the boundary of Cush. ¹¹A foot of a human will not pass over it, and a foot of an animal will not pass over it, and so it will not be inhabited for forty years.^{k 12}And I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of desolated countries, and its cities to be in the midst of ruined cities. They will be a desolation for forty years, and I will scatter Egypt among the nations, and I will disperse them among the countries.”

¹³For thus says the Lord Yahweh: “At the end of forty years I will gather Egypt from the peoples among whom they were scattered. ¹⁴And I will restore the fortunes of Egypt, and I will bring them back to the land of Pathros, to the land of their origin, and they will be a lowly kingdom there.