9. The land of Egypt shall become a desolate waste;then they shall know that I am the Lord.Because you said, “The Nile belongs to me;I made it!”
10. Beware! I am against youand against your Nile.I will turn the land of Egypt into ruins,into a dry, desolate waste,From Migdol to Syene,up to the border of Ethiopia.
11. No foot shall pass through it,no human being or beast cross it;it will remain uninhabited for forty years.
12. I will make the land of Egypt the most desolateamong desolate lands;Its cities, the most desertedamong deserted cities for forty years;I will scatter the Egyptians among the nationsand disperse them throughout other lands.
13. But thus says the Lord God:At the end of forty yearsI will gather the Egyptiansfrom among the peopleswhere they are scattered;
14. I will restore Egypt’s fortunes,bringing them back to the land of Pathros,the land of their origin.But there it will be a lowly kingdom,
15. lower than any other kingdom,no longer able to set itself above the nations.I will make them few in number,so they cannot rule other nations.