⁸“ ‘So this is what the Lord God says: I will cause an enemy to attack you and kill your people and animals. ⁹Egypt will become an empty desert. Then they will know that I am the Lord.

“ ‘Because you said, “The Nile River is mine, and I have made it,” ¹⁰I am against you and your rivers. I will destroy the land of Egypt and make it an empty desert from Migdol in the north to Aswan in the south, all the way to the border of Cush. ¹¹No person or animal will walk through it, and no one will live in Egypt for forty years. ¹²I will make the land of Egypt the most deserted country of all. Her cities will be the most deserted of all ruined cities for forty years. I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, spreading them among the countries.

¹³“ ‘This is what the Lord God says: After forty years I will gather Egypt from the nations where they have been scattered. ¹⁴I will bring back the Egyptian captives and make them return to southern Egypt, to the land they came from. They will become a weak kingdom there.

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