Ezekiel 29:8–14

⁸‘Therefore thus says the Lord God, “Behold, I will ^abring upon you a sword and I will cut off from you man and beast.

⁹“The ^aland of Egypt will become a desolation and waste. Then they will know that I am the Lord.

Because ¹you ^bsaid, ‘The Nile is mine, and I have made it,’

¹⁰therefore, behold, I am ^aagainst you and against your ¹rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from Migdol to Syene and even to the border of ²Ethiopia.

¹¹“A man’s foot will ^anot pass through it, and the foot of a beast will not pass through it, and it will not be inhabited for forty years.

¹²“So I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the ^amidst of desolated lands. And her cities, in the midst of cities that are laid waste, will be desolate forty years; and I will ^bscatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the lands.”

¹³‘For thus says the Lord God, “At the end of forty years I will ^agather the Egyptians from the peoples ¹among whom they were scattered.

¹⁴“I will turn the fortunes of Egypt and make them return to the land of ^aPathros, to the land of their origin, and there they will be a lowly kingdom.