9. Egypt will become an empty desert. Then they will know that I am the Lord.“ ‘Because you said, “The Nile River is mine, and I have made it,”
10. I am against you and your rivers. I will destroy the land of Egypt and make it an empty desert from Migdol in the north to Aswan in the south, all the way to the border of Cush.
11. No person or animal will walk through it, and no one will live in Egypt for forty years.
12. I will make the land of Egypt the most deserted country of all. Her cities will be the most deserted of all ruined cities for forty years. I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, spreading them among the countries.
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.