Ezekiel 29:8–14

⁸‘Therefore thus says the Lord God: “Surely I will bring ^la sword upon you and cut off from you man and beast. ⁹And the land of Egypt shall become ^mdesolate and waste; then they will know that I am the Lord, because he said, ‘The River is mine, and I have made it.’ ¹⁰Indeed, therefore, I am against you and against your rivers, ⁿand I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, ^ofrom ⁵Migdol to Syene, as far as the border of Ethiopia. ^11pNeither foot of man shall pass through it nor foot of beast pass through it, and it shall be uninhabited forty years. ^12qI will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate; and among the cities that are laid waste, her cities shall be desolate forty years; and I will ^rscatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them throughout the countries.”

¹³‘Yet, thus says the Lord God: “At the ^send of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples among whom they were scattered. ¹⁴I will bring back the captives of Egypt and cause them to return to the land of Pathros, to the land of their origin, and there they shall be a ^tlowly kingdom.