⁹ Egypt will become a desolate wasteland. Then they will know that I am the Lord.

“‘Because you said, “The Nile^(A) is mine; I made it,^(B)”

³ Speak to him and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says:

¹⁰ therefore I am against you^(A) and against your streams, and I will make the land of Egypt^(B) a ruin and a desolate waste^(C) from Migdol^(D) to Aswan,^(E) as far as the border of Cush.^{[a](F) 11} The foot of neither man nor beast will pass through it; no one will live there for forty years.^{(G) 12} I will make the land of Egypt desolate^(H) among devastated lands, and her cities will lie desolate forty years among ruined cities. And I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them through the countries.^(I)

¹³ “‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says:

¹⁰ Then say to them, ‘This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: I will send for my servant^(A) Nebuchadnezzar^(B) king of Babylon, and I will set his throne^(C) over these stones I have buried here; he will spread his royal canopy^(D) above them. ¹¹ He will come and attack Egypt,^(E) bringing death^(F) to those destined^(G) for death, captivity to those destined for captivity,^(H) and the sword to those destined for the sword.^{(I) 12} He will set fire^(J) to the temples^(K) of the gods^(L) of Egypt; he will burn their temples and take their gods captive.^(M) As a shepherd picks^(N) his garment clean of lice, so he will pick Egypt clean and depart. ¹³ There in the temple of the sun^[a](O) in Egypt he will demolish the sacred pillars^(P) and will burn down the temples of the gods of Egypt.’”