13. “ ‘This is what the Lord God says: After forty years I will gather Egypt from the nations where they have been scattered.
14. I will bring back the Egyptian captives and make them return to southern Egypt, to the land they came from. They will become a weak kingdom there.
15. It will be the weakest kingdom, and it will never again rule other nations. I will make it so weak it will never again rule over the nations.
16. The Israelites will never again depend on Egypt. Instead, Egypt’s punishment will remind the Israelites of their sin in turning to Egypt for help. Then they will know that I am the Lord God.’ ”
17. It was the twenty-seventh year of our captivity, in the first month, on the first day of the month. The Lord spoke his word to me, saying: