⁸So the Lord and King says, “I will send Nebuchadnezzar’s sword against you. He will kill your people and their animals. ⁹Egypt will become a dry and empty desert. Then your people will know that I am the Lord.

“You said, ‘The Nile River belongs to me. I made it for myself.’ ¹⁰So I am against you and your streams. I will destroy the land of Egypt. I will turn it into a dry and empty desert from Migdol all the way to Aswan. I will destroy everything as far as the border of Cush.

¹¹“No people or animals will travel through Egypt. No one will even live there for 40 years. ¹²Egypt will be more empty than any other land. Its destroyed cities will lie empty for 40 years. I will scatter the people of Egypt among the nations. I will send them to other countries.”

¹³But the Lord and King says, “At the end of 40 years I will gather the Egyptians together from the nations where they were scattered. ¹⁴I will bring them back from where they were taken as prisoners. I will return them to Upper Egypt. That is where they came from. There they will be an unimportant kingdom.

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