Ezekiel 29:8–14

⁸“ ‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will bring a sword against you and kill both man and beast.^{d 9}Egypt will become a desolate wasteland. Then they will know that I am the Lord.

“ ‘Because you said, “The Nile^e is mine; I made it,^f” ¹⁰therefore I am against you^g and against your streams, and I will make the land of Egypt^h a ruin and a desolate wasteⁱ from Migdol^j to Aswan,^k as far as the border of Cush.^{bl 11}The foot of neither man nor beast will pass through it; no one will live there for forty years.^{m 12}I will make the land of Egypt desolateⁿ among devastated lands, and her cities will lie desolate forty years among ruined cities. And I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them through the countries.^o

¹³“ ‘Yet this is what the Sovereign Lord says: At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the nations where they were scattered. ¹⁴I will bring them back from captivity and return them to Upper Egypt,^p the land of their ancestry. There they will be a lowly^q kingdom.^r