Ezekiel 29:8–14

⁸Therefore, thus says the Lord God: I will bring a sword upon you and will cut off from you human and animal,^{* 9}and the land of Egypt shall be a desolation and a waste. Then they shall know that I am the Lord.

Because you^l said, “The Nile is mine, and I made it,” ¹⁰therefore, I am against you and against your channels, and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from Migdol to Syene, as far as the border of Cush.^{* 11}No human foot shall pass through it, and no animal foot shall pass through it; it shall be uninhabited forty years.^{* 12}I will make the land of Egypt a desolation among desolated countries, and her cities shall be a desolation forty years among cities that are laid waste. I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the countries.^*

¹³Further, thus says the Lord God: At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples among whom they were scattered,^{* 14}and I will restore the fortunes of Egypt and bring them back to the land of Pathros, the land of their origin, and there they shall be a lowly kingdom.